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he is running against him self : Rwanda’s sham Elections and Fiction of Women
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http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.ug/2017/08/general-kagame-will-win-rwandas-august.html
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http://watchmanafrica.blogspot.ug/2017/08/rwandas-bogus-elections-king-paul.html
Rwanda charges Kagame critic with insurrection
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Rwandan-opposition-figure-Diane-Rwigara-insurrection-charges/688340-4124064-6umewwz/index.html
Wednesday October 4 2017
Rwandan prosecutors said Tuesday that a former
presidential aspirant and prominent critic of President Paul Kagame had
been charged with inciting insurrection against the state as well as
other offences.
Provisional detention was
requested for Diane Rwigara, who was blocked from challenging Kagame in
August's presidential election, as well as for her mother Adeline
Rwigara and her sister Anne Rwigara.
"The charges
include forgery of documents and signature counterfeiting by Diane,
sectarian practices by Adeline Rwigara and inciting insurrection for all
the three," a spokesman for the state prosecutor's office, Faustin
Nkusi, told AFP.
Diane Rwigara has said they were
questioned by police almost daily in the first three weeks of last
month, before being detained for questioning on September 22.
There was no mention of allegations of tax evasion, which had been raised previously.
In an interview with AFP just before her detention last month, Rwigara said she was a victim of political persecution "for standing against oppression and speaking my mind."
Other critics and opposition figures have also been detained in recent weeks in what observers say is a post-election crackdown on dissent.
The refusal to
allow her to run against Kagame, who won the August 4 election with 99
percent of the vote, on claims of procedural irregularities was widely
criticised by Western governments and rights groups.
Rwigara
is the daughter of Assinapol Rwigara, an entrepreneur who made a
fortune in industry and real estate, and a main backer of Kagame's
Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR) during its efforts to topple the Hutu
extremist regime in 1994, ending the Rwandan genocide.
Diane
Rwigara later distanced herself from the RPF after her father's death
in a car accident in 2015, which she has claimed was an "assassination".
