Ugandan security forces have arrested Erias Lukwago, a senior opposition figure ‌and lawyer representing detained People’s Front for Freedom party leader Kizza Besigye, who is on trial for treason, the PFF said on Monday. Lukwago was picked up at his ​home, the PFF party said in a post on the X platform.
“We wish to ​inform the general public … that our executive chairman, counsel Erias Lukwago has been abducted by state operatives and taken to an unknown destination,” PFF said. Lukwago, formerly the mayor of the Ugandan capital Kampala, represents ​Besigye also in a related case, where he sued the country’s military chief ​Muhoozi Kainerugaba for repeatedly threatening his life on social media. Kainerugaba ⁠is the son of Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni.

Full report : Ugandan forces arrest lawyer of opposition figure facing treason charges, party says.