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Rwanda detains opposition leader Ingabire over alleged incitement

Opposition politician Victoire Ingabire, head of Development and Liberty for All (DALFA), at the High Court in Kigali on 13 March 2024. AFP - GUILLEM SARTORIO

Kigali (Reuters) – 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, a state investigative agency said.

Ingabire was freed in 2018 after serving eight 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.

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