PRESS RELEASE
SOS: Mrs. ILLUMINEE IRAGENA REPORTED TO BE IN CRITICAL
CONDITION FOLLOWING
TORTURE IN KAMI MILITARY CAMP
According
to informed sources Mrs.
Illuminee Iragena, reported missing since March 26, 2016, could be held in
the notorious Kami military barracks, on the outskirts of Kigali City, Rwanda.
The Kami military camp is notoriously known for its cruel interrogation methods
used to extract false testimonies. Some reliable sources report that Mrs.
Iragena has been tortured.
It
should be recalled that in 2012 Amnesty
International published a detailed report
condemning the systematic use of torture in Rwanda by military intelligence
services. According to former inmates, some methods include the use of
electric shocks, beating detainees or sensory deprivation to force them to
speak, and by suffocation with a plastic bag over the head.
Mrs.
Illuminee Iragena, is a mother of three young children and her husband had to
flee the family home before the kidnapping of his wife in fear of being
arrested and/or abducted. These children are very vulnerable. The alleged crime
committed by Illuminee is that the intelligence services have found her name on
the book written recently by political prisoner Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza,
FDU-Inkingi’s Chair, while in incarceration at the Kigali maximum security
prison.
The
FDU-Inkingi party calls upon:
- Key donors of the RPF regime to
use their influence to obtain the release of Mrs. Illuminee Iragena before
it is too late.
- National and international women
organisations to condemn abduction and imprisonment of Rwandan women that
are members or suspected to be members of the political opposition.
- National and international
organizations responsible for child protection, to take the necessary
measures to safeguard the children of Mrs. Illuminee Iragena.
The
FDU-Inkingi party would also like to make it crystal clear that the military
camps should never be used as detention facilities for civilians, much less innocent
civilians. Such old age practices are gone and must stop.
Done in
London on April 28, 2016
FDU
Inkingi
Justin
Bahunga
Commissioner
for External relations and Spokesperson
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