No recourse in African court for Rwandan
Victoire Ingabire leaving the Supreme Court in 2012. She is currently serving a 15-year jail sentence handed to her by the Supreme Court in 2013, which found her guilty of inciting revolt, forming armed groups to destabilise the country and denying the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. PHOTO | FILE
By Ivan R. Mugisha and Mohammed M Mupenda
Posted Saturday, March 5 2016 at 15:25
IN SUMMARY
- Rwanda has pulled out of the African Court on Human and People’s Rights on the grounds that the country has competent courts to try all local cases involving human-rights, an official has said.
- The Arusha-based AfCHPR summoned the Rwandan government to a hearing of a case filed by opposition leader Victoire Ingabire.
- Ms Ingabire, 47, who heads the unregistered political party FDU Inkingi, had dragged the government to the African court, accusing it of violating her rights and freedoms provided under the Universal Declaration of
