Political Prisoners

Many members and sympathisers of the FDU-Inkingi, along with other opponents, have been imprisoned for defending democracy and human rights in Rwanda.

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza

Having returned to Rwanda in 2010 to register the party and stand in the presidential election, our former president Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights ruled that her conviction violated her rights to freedom of expression and to an adequate defence. She was granted a presidential pardon in 2018, but remains deprived of part of her political rights.

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Many of our members have been murdered, imprisoned or disappeared. The FDU-Inkingi demand the release of all political prisoners, an end to arbitrary detention and respect for everyone's right to a fair trial.

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by zyansaeed615gm… August 12, 2011

POLITICAL PRISONER INGABIRE DEMANDS PRESIDENT KAGAME TO ALLOW VISIT.

RWANDA, Kigali, 12th August 2011 Since April 2011, Political prisoner Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, chair of FDU-Inkingi, is not allowed to receive visitors. The government has been changing rules until nobody is seeing her any more. Today as she was completing 302 days in maximum security, 11 opposition members went to “Kigali 1930 Prison” but were […]

by zyansaeed615gm… June 20, 2011

UN PROCES POLITIQUE CONTRE Mme VICTOIRE INGABIRE UMUHOZA

Ce lundi 20 juin 2011, s’ouvre à la Haute Cour de Kigali, le procès contre Mme Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, Présidente des FDU-Inkingi, parti d’opposition que les autorités rwandaises refusent toujours de reconnaître. Officiellement, elle est accusée : d’idéologie du génocide, de collaboration avec un groupe terroriste, de divisionnisme, de propagation des rumeurs visant à soulever […]

by zyansaeed615gm… March 30, 2010

RWANDA:Rwanda: Secret services in flagrante delicto fabricating criminal evidence against Mrs. Victoire Ingabire.

Kigali 30 March 2010, The determination of the regime to derail the democratic process will know no limits as long as the main bilateral partners of Rwanda remain, once again, silent while the country is obviously sinking in a new political and military crisis. The escalating campaign of persecution and harassment of the opposition has reached […]

by zyansaeed615gm… January 29, 2010

RWANDA: The New Times and Mrs. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza:A nasty character assassination ploy

By Chris Nzabandora Kigali, January 29, 2010 Ever since Mrs. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza set foot in Rwanda on January 16th, 2010, the Rwandan daily newspaper, the New Times, spared no efforts in tarnishing her image. Indeed, after a crude distortion of her statement at the Gisozi Genocide Memorial, and calls for her arrests and subsequent hate editorials, […]