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thofaRwanda arrests opposition leader Ingabire, her lawyer protests
* Rwanda has arrested prominent opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, who is being held at a detention facility in the capital Kigali on charges of inciting the public and creating a criminal organisation.
* Ingabire was freed in 2018 after serving six years of a 15-year jail sentence handed to her in 2012 following her conviction on charges related to conspiring to form an armed group and seeking to minimise the 1994 genocide.
* She is now accused of "playing a role in creating a criminal organisation and engaging in acts that incite public disorder."
* Ingabire, who heads unregistered opposition party DALFA–Umurinzi, returned from exile in the Netherlands to contest a presidential election in 2010, but was barred from standing after being accused of genocide denial
* .Last year President Paul Kagame, in power for a quarter of a century, won re-election https://archive.ph/o/xcixp/https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/rwanda-president-kagame-reelected-with-9918-votes-2024-07-18/ fter securing 99.1e vote, according to the electoral body.
* Kagame is lauded for transforming Rwanda from the ruins of the 1994 genocide to a thriving economy but his reputation has also been tainted by longstanding accusations of rights abuses and supporting rebels in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
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* Rwanda has arrested prominent opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, who is being held at a detention facility in the capital Kigali on charges of inciting the public and creating a criminal organisation.
* Ingabire was freed in 2018 after serving six years of a 15-year jail sentence handed to her in 2012 following her conviction on charges related to conspiring to form an armed group and seeking to minimise the 1994 genocide.
* She is now accused of "playing a role in creating a criminal organisation and engaging in acts that incite public disorder."
* Ingabire, who heads unregistered opposition party DALFA–Umurinzi, returned from exile in the Netherlands to contest a presidential election in 2010, but was barred from standing after being accused of genocide denial
* .Last year President Paul Kagame, in power for a quarter of a century, won re-election https://archive.ph/o/xcixp/https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/rwanda-president-kagame-reelected-with-9918-votes-2024-07-18/ fter securing 99.1e vote, according to the electoral body.
* Kagame is lauded for transforming Rwanda from the ruins of the 1994 genocide to a thriving economy but his reputation has also been tainted by longstanding accusations of rights abuses and supporting rebels in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
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