Friends of Victoire, coming together to call for her release and to denounce injustice committed against her.
24th November, 2017, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) held that Rwanda violated Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza’s right to freedom of opinion and expression, as well as her right to an adequate defense. The court ruled that Rwanda had violated Ingabire’s right to various aspects of her defense …
Fred W. Holt, a Norwegian human rights defender and a member of Friends of Victoire was awarded, together with Anneke Verbraeken and Patrick Mbeko, the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Prize for Democracy and Peace, 2016 on 12 March 2016 in Brussels, Belgium: Dear friends, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am deeply honoured by being awarded the prize «Victoire …
In her notes recently published by the Editions Scribe under the French title ‘Entre les 4 murs de 1930’, (Between the 4 walls of 1930 – my translation) the Rwandan political prisoner Victoire Ingabire tells among many other moving facts a touching story of her 3 years inmate Cynthia. She …
Five years have just passed. It was on October 14th, 2010 when she was first sentenced. Her flame of real peace and reconciliation among Rwandans demands being kept alive. On January 09th, 2010 I was in Brussels at the farewell event that gathered more than 300 people to see Victoire …
