Friends of Victoire, coming together to call for her release and to denounce injustice committed against her.
LONDON, UK – The Friends of Victoire association, along with other UK-based activists, will hold a protest on Friday 5th September 2025, at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London to demand the immediate release of Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. The prominent Rwandan opposition leader was recently arrested following a court appearance, marking …
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 …
