Rights groups have called on authorities to investigate reports that Ugandan military officers tortured the exiled satirical writer and government critic Kakwenza Rukirabashaija while he was forcibly disappeared for 14 days.

The satirical Ugandan novelist is the latest political prisoner to complain of torture by security agencies.

He was arrested in late December and is now facing an ongoing court case.

It follows a series of complaints from Bobi Wine’s party, the NUP, of its members being detained and tortured since the last election.

Most recently the NUP’s leader in Kasese spoke out about being tortured after spending most of December and some of January in detention.

Aljazeera/Agencies.