The detention conditions of Rwandan political prisoner Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza have abruptly deteriorated. The prison authorities have expelled her lawyers from the prison premises, even though they had come to help her prepare for the hearings on her appeal to the African Court on Human and People’s Rights in Arusha Tanzania. The authorities have at the same time confiscated all her books, including gospel song books, and ordered that she no longer talk to FDU-Inkingi party members who bring food to her every day. In brief, she is now being kept in total isolation. Even a Dutch delegation was expelled from Rwanda’s 1930 Prison because they were speaking to her in Dutch, a language Rwandan prison autorithies don’t understand. FULL STORY
