His allies say the detained Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye held for a week in a hunger strike and was sent to jail overnight after a health clinic.
The 68-year-old was taken to a private medical facility in a prison ambulance due to worsening health.
Besigye was accused of illegal possession of firearms, threatening national security and betrayal of death penalty. He denied the charges.
News about his health comes after the Cabinet minister said he had visited Besigye in prison and urged him to resume eating while promising to give up the military trial.
The experienced politician, who has run for president four times against long-serving leader Yoweri Museveni, has been vigorously abducted in Kenya in November and brought back to Uganda to face a military trial.
Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that civilians attempted to be made in military courts were unconstitutional.
The government insists that Besigye's military trial will continue, and President Museveni regards the ruling as a “wrong decision” and vows to challenge it.
But on Sunday, Information Minister Chris Baryomunsi said he had seen Besigye Civil Court in prison.
Besigye’s wife, Winnie Byanyima, said the visit was “highly suspicious”.
“As a government minister, you are not a visitor who cares about – you are his kidnapper,” Ms. Byanyima, director of the UN HIV/AIDS Program, posted on X.
She added: “We will hold you and your government completely responsible for any harm caused to him.”
On Sunday night, a MP who was allied with detained politicians said Besigye was taken to a clinic in the outskirts of Kampala “in a very heavy safety deployment.”
Congressman Francis Mwijukye said Besigye was “pushed into a wheelchair.”
Wafula Oguttu, a former leader of the parliamentary opposition and a Besigye Ally, said prison officials around the clinic told him they would take him back to the prison after a series of tests.
He told the BBC that he would not allow him to enter the clinic.
Harold Kaija, one of Besigye's political aides, said he is now back in prison.
Besigye conducted a hunger strike a week ago to protest his continued military detention and his trial has not yet begun.
He was a former ally of Museveni – who has been in power since 1986 – and was once his personal doctor.
Besigye had previously accused the authorities of political persecution. In recent years, he has been less active in politics and has not participated in the 2021 election.
Besigye appeared in court on Friday – in another case – looking weak. Since then, the Uganda Doctors Association calls on his “release now”.
Other reports by Swaibu Ibrahim in Kampala
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