Rwandan police have arrested opposition leader Victoire Ingabire on charges of forming a terrorist organisation.
Police spokesman Eric Kayiranga said Mrs 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."
Mrs 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," Mr Kayiranga said.
Mrs 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.
Mrs 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.
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