- Joel Mutabazi was seized from a safe house in UgandaJerome Starkey
A Rwandan refugee who fled his job in President Kagame’s personal bodyguard has been abducted in Uganda and forcibly returned to his home country, where rights groups fear that he may be tortured and killed.
Joel Mutabazi escaped from Rwanda in 2011 after claiming that he suffered 17 months of torture and solitary confinement in the infamous Kami military prison, on the outskirts of Kigali. He had been accused of supporting an exiled Rwandan general.
Mr Mutabazi was living in a UN safe house in Kampala after two men, who he said were members of Rwanda’s intelligence service, tried to