The European Union has strongly criticised the Ugandan authorities for rearresting the novelist, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, moments after a court had ordered his release on bail.
His lawyer said plain-clothed men grabbed the author as soon as he stepped out of prison on Tuesday.
The EU statement described the action as a clear disrespect to the rule of law and called for Mr Rukirabashaija’s immediate release.
He was arrested in December after making unflattering remarks about President Yoweri Museveni and his son on social media.
In 2020 the author was interrogated over whether his book The Greedy Barbarian was about Mr Museveni.
He said he was tortured whilst in detention.
Last year won the Pen Pinter Prize for an international writer of courage.
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