Mr Johnston Busingye
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Republic of Rwanda Ministry of Justice of Rwanda
PO Box: 160 Kigali-Rwanda
moj@minijust.gov.rw; mjust@minijust.gov.rw
Amsterdam, 28 May 2018
Your Excellency Mr. Busingye, Honorable Minister of Justice of Rwanda,
I am writing to you about the case of Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. I am one of the lawyers who represented her before the African Court of Human and People’s Rights.
As you know, the African Court has ruled that some of my client’s rights under the African Charter have been violated in the criminal proceedings initiated against her in Rwanda, which led to her wrongful conviction and sentence of fifteen years imprisonment in respect of terrorism against the state, genocide minimization, and inciting insurrection by spreading rumours. Read more… victoire26