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A Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher was this week deported on arrival in Kigali, as relations between the organisation and the Paul Kagame regime remain strained.

Independent journalist Ann Garrison says the case against Eric Nshimiye, a Stark County man accused in Rwandan genocide, doesn't add up.

From ARNOLD MULENGA in Lusaka, Zambia Zambia Bureau LUSAKA, (CAJ News) - THE human rights fraternity is upset angered at the arrest and possible extradition of a prominent Rwandan refugee in Zambia. Fears are that he could be the latest individual to fall victim to the Rwandan government’s control, surveillance and intimidation of Rwandan refugees

Today, Human Rights Watch published a milestone report on Rwanda. It is important to me, personally, and in my capacity at Africa.com, to use all of my platforms to ensure that that as many people in influential positions, like the readers of Africa.com, are aware of the years-long investigation that Human Rights Watch conducted, including interviews with over 150 people, to expose violent oppression undertaken by the Rwandan government to silence its critics abroad.

Rwandan authorities and their proxies are using violence, judicial mechanisms, and intimidation to try to silence criticism from Rwandans living around the world. The abuses, which have fostered a climate of fear and self-censorship, are being brought to light as the United Kingdom government is at the Supreme Court appealing the judgment that its plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful.