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Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire faces her judges in appeal

By Kris Berwouts The last time I communicated directly with Victoire Ingabire, on October 13th 2010, she sounded tense and tired. After an absence of more than 16 years, she had come back to Rwanda in January to participate in … read more »

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East African Opposition, Really?

by ANDRE VLTCHEK In the three Western outposts of the eastern part of Africa – Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya – the opposition had either been totally smashed or is rotting in jail. Alternatively, it has ‘ceased to exist’. In East … read more »

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RWANDA: Police Attack Ingabire Supporters at Supreme Court to Hear Case of Political Prisoner

We call upon the government of Paul Kagame to release those arrested in today swoop, and ensure that police officers and their hierarchy are held accountable for their actions. File photo of supporters of Madame Victoire Ingabire, courtesy: therisingcontinent.wordpress.com (KIGALI) … read more »

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The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Justice

Rwanda National Congress (RNC) condemns Kagame’s regine for sentencing Victoire Ingabire to eight years in jail. Today, the High Court in Kigali, Rwanda, sentenced Madame Victoire Ingabire, the President of FDU-inkingi, to eight years in jail on flimsy grounds of … read more »

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Fear and Insecurity are Kagame’s Principal Weapons

- Victorie Ingabire returned to Rwanda in 2010 in order to register her party and run for the Presidential seat against Paul Kagame. She stepped off of the plane went to a genocide memorial site where she spoke to supporters … read more »

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Opposition leaders in Rwanda are hounded in the courts

Economist VICTOIRE INGABIRE returned to her native country in 2010 to compete in presidential elections after 16 years in exile in the Netherlands. She became the leader of an opposition party, United Democratic Forces, challenging the incumbent, President Paul Kagame. … read more »

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Charges filed against Rwanda opposition leader were politically motivated

(UPI) — Human Rights Watch said it had concerns that charges filed against an opposition leader in Rwanda were politically motivated. The High Court in Kigali this week found Victoire Ingabire, leader of the opposition FDU-Inkingi party, guilty of ties … read more »

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Rwanda: Victoire Ingabire, opposition leader loses genocide law challenge

KIGALI — Rwanda’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a suit filed by a leading opposition figure challenging one of the laws being used to prosecute her for allegedly denying the 1994 genocide. Victoire Ingabire, who has been in custody for … read more »

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Rwanda: ‘Democracy Demands an Opposition Party’

As Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, “It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.” The … read more »

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Victoire Ingabire: the Rwandan Aung San Suu Kyi

(SAN FRANCISCO AfrobeatRadio) – Victoire Ingabire left Rwanda almost two years ago in January 2010 to return to her native Rwanda in hopes of challenging Rwandan President Paul Kagame in the country’s 2010 presidential election. Her party was not allowed … read more »

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Rwandan opposition leader trial opens

Kigali – The trial opened on Monday of Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, an outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame’s regime who is charged with fomenting insecurity and ethnic divisions. Charges were read out against the handcuffed Ingabire, dressed in … read more »

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Trial of Rwanda opposition figure postponed

Kigali – A Rwanda court on Monday postponed the trial of opposition figure Victoire Ingabire until September 5, after her lawyers asked for more time to prepare, officials said. “The Kigali High Court has adjourned the criminal case against Victoire … read more »

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Rwandan opposition demands fair trial for leader

Supporters of detained Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire on Saturday demanded she be given a fair trial and denounced terrorism charges against her as “politically motivated”. Ingabire heads the unregistered Unified Democratic Forces (FDU) party, which said her lawyers have … read more »

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New drive to oust Rwanda’s Kagame

Nairobi – Two Rwandan opposition parties said Wednesday they had formed a joint strategy to fight the “dictatorship, discrimination and marginalisation” of President Paul Kagame’s government. The Unified Democratic Forces of jailed opposition leader Victoire Ingabire and the Rwanda National … read more »

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Rwandan opposition leader Ingabire denied bail

Rwanda’s high court has rejected a bail application by opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, who is charged with threatening national security and public order, and extended her detention, the Prosecutor General’s office said on Friday. Ingabire was also charged in October … read more »

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Rwandan opposition leader’s Dutch houses searched

Dutch prosecutors have confiscated material from a Rwandan opposition leader in two Dutch houses after a request from the African country where she is suspected of terrorism, the prosecutors said on Monday. Opposition leader Victoire Ingabire was charged in October … read more »

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“Hotel Rwanda” hero implicated with Ingabire: prosecutor

Paul Rusesabagina, the man who saved more than 1,200 people from genocide in events depicted in the Oscar-nominated film “Hotel Rwanda,” has been implicated in the terrorism case against a Rwandan opposition leader. Martin Ngoga, Rwanda’s prosecutor general, told Reuters … read more »

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Former Rwandan Envoy Calls for international Pressure on President Kagame

A former Rwandan ambassador to the United States and former chief of staff to President Paul Kagame has called on Rwandans to continue their peaceful resistance to what he called Mr. Kagame’s state-sponsored terrorism. This comes as a Rwandan court … read more »

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Rwandan court denies opposition leader bail

KIGALI, Rwanda – A Rwandan court on Tuesday denied bail to the country’s most prominent opposition leader who had been charged a day earlier with forming a terrorist organization. The ruling comes months after Victoire Ingabire was barred from challenging … read more »

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