Rwandan police on Thursday arrested opposition leader Victoire Ingabire on charges of forming a terrorist organisation and took her for questioning, officials said.

Police spokesman Eric Kayiranga said Ingabire was arrested for "organising a terrorist group" on the basis of information given by a former military officer.

According to police, the officer, who was arrested on Wednesday on the Rwanda-DR Congo border, said he had received Ingabire's assistance to "set up a military wing of the FDU."

Ingabire -- the leader of the unresgistered United Democratic Forces -- and the former army officer "are currently detained at Kigali police station awaiting to be taken to court," Kayiranga said.

Ingabire's party also said she had been taken to the Criminal Investigations Department for interrogation.
The FDU said this week there had been a huge police presence around her home in Kigali.

Ingabire, a Hutu, has been under police investigation over comments she made regarding Rwanda's 1994 genocide following her return to the country in January.

She called for the trial of those responsible for the death of Hutus in the massacre which claimed some 800,000 lives, mainly minority Tutsis.

Ingabire was first arrested in April on accusations of associating with a terrorist group, denying genocide, promoting genocide ideology and division.

Key among those accusations is her alleged association with the DR Congo-based Hutu rebels Kigali blames for involvement in the genocide.

After her release, she was placed under police investigation and barred from travelling outside the capital Kigali pending trial.

Authorities also barred her attempts to register the FDU and run for the August 9 presidential election which was resoundingly won by President Paul Kagame.

Ingabire denounced the elections as a "masquerade", demanded fresh elections and called on Rwanda's international partners to ignore the polls' outcome.

Authorities also arrested Ingabire's colleague Joseph Ntawangundi in February to serve a sentence handed down in absentia in 2007 by grass roots court trying genocide suspects.

Source: AFP