PRESS RELEASE
MISS
GASENGAYIRE LEONILLE, ASSISTANT
TREASURER OF FDU- INKINGI
KIDNAPPED BY SECRET POLICE IN
RWANDA
This morning of the 26th March
2016, Miss Gahongayire Leonille, assistant treasurer of FDU-Inkingi was picked
by plain clothed men who lay in wait inside the infamous Kigali central prison “1930”compound. They bundled her in an
awaiting car, registration nºRAA442M and whisked away to unknown
destination.
The car could
not have entered and the compound without the clearance of the prison
authorities and hence make prison authorities complicit in the kidnap.
Miss Leonile
had gone to Kigali Central prison to take food to the political prisoner Mrs
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. Mrs Victoire receives food from outside the prison
on advice by medical doctors, and approved by prison authorities. Mrs Leonile
was taken away with the food that she had brought to political prisoner
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. She is now without food and water.
The kidnapping
is part of a psychological warfare being waged by the government against Mrs
Ingabire in order to wear down her resolve to oppose the current repressive
system as well as to scare off anyone who supports her .
The government is quite enraged against Mrs Victoire Ingabire after her appeal
at the African Human and Peoples’ Rights whose outcome has tarnished the international image of
Rwanda, as a country that respects the rule of law, and the government looks
set to do anything that can get her out of its way.
It is quite
clear that the latest measure is intended to scare off anyone who would dare
take food to Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and hence force her, for very
suspicious reasons, to take food prepared by cooks appointed by government
officials.
FDU-Inkingi would like to appeal to all peace
loving people, governments and human rights organisations to put pressure on
the Rwandan government to disclose where Miss Leonile is held and to release
her without any further delay.
FDU-Inkingi would like to
condemn in the strongest terms this repeated
kidnapping of its supporters and to release
Miss Leonile Gasengayire
Done in London, 26th March
2016
Justin Bahunga
Commission for External Relations and Spokesperson
FDU-Inkingi
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