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KIGALI: A Rwandan court on Wednesday refused to restore opposition leader Victoire Ingabire‘s civic rights and remove her previous convictions for terrorism and genocide denial, rendering her ineligible to run in the July presidential polls.
A fierce critic of Rwanda’s long-ruling President Paul Kagame, Ingabire spent eight years in prison before receiving a presidential pardon in 2018 that cut short her 15-year sentence.
She had asked the Kigali high court to remove her convictions, which…
A fierce critic of Rwanda’s long-ruling President Paul Kagame, Ingabire spent eight years in prison before receiving a presidential pardon in 2018 that cut short her 15-year sentence.
She had asked the Kigali high court to remove her convictions, which…
