14:29 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nUgandan police have sprayed opposition leaders with a pink liquid to stop them holding a banned rally in the capital.<\/p>\n
After the drenching, Democratic Party leader Norbert Mao was then arrested.<\/p>\n
This week, opposition parities have stepped up their campaign over high prices, which has led to recent clashes between the police and protesters.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, President Yoweri Museveni has said to curb riots he wants a new law to deny bail for six months to those arrested while protesting.<\/p>\n
Mr Museveni, who has been in office for 25 years, is due to be sworn in again as president on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Uganda’s main opposition leader Kizza Besigye lost to Mr Museveni in February in polls he says were rigged.<\/p>\n
Dr Besigye is in Kenya where he was receiving treatment after being assaulted in April by police during a “walk-to-work” protest over the rising cost of living,<\/p>\n
The BBC’s Joshua Mmali in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, says the police and military blockaded the entrance to the city’s Constitutional Square where the opposition parties wanted to hold their rally.<\/p>\n
The police then intercepted the opposition leaders’ procession, which was heading towards the square, with dogs.<\/p>\n
When this failed to stop them, they were drenched in the pink liquid sprayed from nearby trucks.<\/p>\n
Before Mr Mao was hauled into a police van he told the BBC there was “no justification” for the police action.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know what liquid it is. I don’t know whether it is lethal or not, but there was no justification for pouring those liquids on us,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We were simply accessing this place and the police needed to exercise restraint.”<\/p>\n
The police say political gatherings have been banned at the square since 2007.<\/p>\n
Last month, riots broke out in Kampala in protest at the rough treatment meted out to Dr Besigye by the security services during his arrest on 29 April.<\/p>\n
Plain-clothed policemen beat up his supporters, smashed the window of his car and doused the inside with pepper spray and tear gas before manhandling him into a vehicle and driving off.<\/p>\n
The authorities say Dr Besigye provoked them – and he was charged with inciting violence.<\/p>\n
Before the polls, Dr Besigye had called for Egypt-style uprisings in the event of fraud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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