Rwandan Opposition Leader's Trial and Opportuntity to Run in Elections Blocked

By JOSH KRON
DAILY NATION Correspondent
Tuesday, June 1 2010

After promising a swift trial, prosecution in Rwanda now says that investigations into opposition figure Victoire Ingabire could take up to a year, potentially blocking the politician from the 2010 presidential elections.

Ms Ingabire was arrested in April on charges of ‘genocide ideology,’ ‘divisionism,’ and colluding with an ethnic rebel group in the Congo, charges that if she is convicted of could bring her decades in prison.

More than a month later, the government says that investigations are ongoing, and in a recent interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation’s local Kinyarwanda-language service, Ms Ingabire said the would no longer talk to investigators.

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