Rwanda Fails to Answer Victoire Ingabire’s Appeal
Sit-in to free Victoire Ingabire in The Hague, Netherlands. Ingabire's son Remy Ndizeye Niyigena kneels to the left of the banner.The Unified Democratic Forces (FDU Inkingi), a political…
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RWANDA STRUGGLES TO JUSTIFY EXPELLING POLITICAL PRISONER VICTOIRE INGABIRE”S LAWYER
On May 19th 2016, the Rwandan government ordered Dutch lawyer Caroline Buisman to leave Rwanda immediately, without even meeting her new client, political prisoner Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. Buisman…
RWANDAN AUTHORITIES USE KAFKAESQUE MOVES TO DENY VICTOIRE INGABIRE BASIC RIGHTS
Victoire Ingabire, center, with her lawyers Gatera Gashabana, left, and Iain Edwards, right, at her trial in Kigali in 2012. Gatera Gashabana is representing Ingabire in her appeal…
Rwanda denies Victoire Ingabire legal counsel, confines her in total isolation
The detention conditions of Rwandan political prisoner Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza have abruptly deteriorated. The prison authorities have expelled her lawyers from the prison premises, even though they had…