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by zyansaeed615gm… August 3, 2013

Rwanda : L’espace politique est toujours verrouillé

Kigali, le 01 août  2013. Ce  31 Juillet  2013, le ministre de l’administration locale, a officiellement remis au  « Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) », agence rwandaise chargée de la gouvernance, les prérogatives d’enregistrement des partis politiques. A cette occasion, le ministre James Musoni a déclaré que c’était la preuve qu’il y avait de la démocratie au Rwanda. […]

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by zyansaeed615gm… July 23, 2013

Rwanda: L’emprisonnement de Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza viole le droit à la liberté de pensée garanti par la constitution

Kigali, le 22 juillet 2013. Les audiences du procès de Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza devant la cour suprême ont repris ce 22 juillet 2013, avec les répliques de la défense de madame Victoire Ingabire constituée de maître Iain Edwards et de maître Gatera Gashabana. Maître Iain a expliqué à la cour que sa cliente est […]

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by zyansaeed615gm… May 16, 2013

Rwanda: The new law on political parties is meant to permanently seal off the political space

In anticipation of legislative elections in August-September 2013, the Kigali regime has changed the law on political parties so that it may permanently seal off the political space. It was believed that in Rwanda, institutions and draconian laws had reached the bottom and that it was unimaginable that the Rwandan regime could still seal off the political […]

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by zyansaeed615gm… April 23, 2013

Case study: Rwanda – freedom of association and expression

Human Rights and Democracy 2012 The UK remains concerned over the constraints on political space in Rwanda, and is also disturbed about evidence of Rwandan support for the M23 militia who have committed human rights abuses in eastern DRC. Freedom of association Unregistered political parties experience harassment.  The law transferring responsibility for registering parties to […]

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by zyansaeed615gm… July 6, 2012

RWANDA : STOP POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF FDU-INKINGI LEADERS IN RWANDA

Lausanne , 05 July 2012 Whilst Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, FDU-INKINGI Chair, is almost two years in Kigali maximum prison for politically motivated charges, plans to track and silence other executive members of the party in Rwanda are still there. The Coordinating Committee of FDU-INKINGI calls on the government of Rwanda to stop threatening and […]

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