Fears grow for the life of Rwandan accused of treason

  • Rwandan exile Joel Mutabazi
    Joel Mutabazi was seized from a safe house in UgandaJerome Starkey
Jerome Starkey, Africa Correspondent and Tabu Butagira in Kampala
Last updated at 12:01AM, November 1 2013

 

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

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