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http://www.blackstarnews.com/global-politics/africa/verdict-in-victoire-ingabires-appeal-postponed-again.html VERDICT IN VICTOIRE INGABIRE'S APPEAL POSTPONED AGAIN ANN GARRISON OCTOBER 31,2013 - A + A 0 The Rwandan Supreme Court's ruling on the appeal of imprisoned opposition leader Madame Victoire Ingabire has been postponed again, from November 1st to December 13th. Ingabire, leader of Rwanda's FDU-Inkingi Party, was arrested three years ago, in October 2010, after attempting to run for president against sitting President Paul Kagame. Bernard Ntaganda, leader of Rwanda's P.S.-Imberakuri Party has also been imprisoned since attempting to run against Kagame that year.    Ingabire was charged with treason and genocide ideology, which means disagreeing with the official, Constitutionally codified history of the Rwandan Genocide, or, more broadly, disagreeing with the government, or making reference to ethnicity.   Another key leader of the FDU-Inkingi,  Sylvain Sibom...

http://www.blackstarnews.com/global-politics/africa/verdict-in-victoire-ingabires-appeal-postponed-again.html VERDICT IN VICTOIRE INGABIRE'S APPEAL POSTPONED AGAIN ANN GARRISON OCTOBER 31,2013 - A + A 0 The Rwandan Supreme Court's ruling on the appeal of imprisoned opposition leader Madame Victoire Ingabire has been postponed again, from November 1st to December 13th. Ingabire, leader of Rwanda's FDU-Inkingi Party, was arrested three years ago, in October 2010, after attempting to run for president against sitting President Paul Kagame. Bernard Ntaganda, leader of Rwanda's P.S.-Imberakuri Party has also been imprisoned since attempting to run against Kagame that year.    Ingabire was charged with treason and genocide ideology, which means disagreeing with the official, Constitutionally codified history of the Rwandan Genocide, or, more broadly, disagreeing with the government, or making reference to ethnicity.   Another key leader of the FDU-Inkingi,  Sylvain Sibom...

http://www.fdu-rwanda.com/en/ Rwanda: The postponement of the verdict in the trial of Victoire Ingabire amounts to a diversionary tactic OCTOBER 29, 2013    We learned without a big surprise that the Rwandan judicial authorities have decided not to announce the long-awaited verdict in the trial of FDU-Inkingi's Chair, Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, and her four co-defendants. This maneuver which aims to maintain an innocent person in prison is unacceptable. Indeed, Ms. Victoire Ingabire has just spent three years and two weeks in the Kigali maximum security prison solely because she dared to demand the opening of political space until now padlocked by the RPF regime which does not allow any political party that is not beholden to the RPF to operate freely. Only organizations that have pledged allegiance to the RPF can aspire to the status of political party in Rwanda; all others are either prohibited or persecuted or subjected to internal divisions orchestrated by the regime...

http://www.fdu-rwanda.com/en/ Rwanda: The postponement of the verdict in the trial of Victoire Ingabire amounts to a diversionary tactic OCTOBER 29, 2013    We learned without a big surprise that the Rwandan judicial authorities have decided not to announce the long-awaited verdict in the trial of FDU-Inkingi's Chair, Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, and her four co-defendants. This maneuver which aims to maintain an innocent person in prison is unacceptable. Indeed, Ms. Victoire Ingabire has just spent three years and two weeks in the Kigali maximum security prison solely because she dared to demand the opening of political space until now padlocked by the RPF regime which does not allow any political party that is not beholden to the RPF to operate freely. Only organizations that have pledged allegiance to the RPF can aspire to the status of political party in Rwanda; all others are either prohibited or persecuted or subjected to internal divisions orchestrated by the regime...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/democraticrepublicofcongo/10417909/DR-Congo-M23-rebels-close-to-defeat-after-US-and-British-intervention.html DR Congo: M23 rebels close to defeat after US and Britain urge Rwanda to stay out The M23 rebel group is made up of hundreds of Congolese soldiers mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group who deserted the national army last year Picture: Reuters Twitter 33 Facebook 87 Share 120 By  Mike Pflanz , in Nairobi and David Blair 3:19PM GMT 31 Oct 2013 Foreign ministers of America and Britain called president of neighbouring Rwanda to ask him to cut ties with rebels Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo are close to defeat after the foreign ministers of both America and Britain called the president of neighbouring Rwanda and urged him not to intervene to support them, The Daily Telegraph has learned. John Kerry, the US secretary of state, and William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, telephoned Paul Kagame separately last Fr...