The Editor of Umurabyo vernacular newspaper will regain her freedom on June 18 after successfully completing her four year jail sentence.
Uwimana Nkusi Agnes currently serving her sentence at Nyarugenge prison (a.k.a 1930)
Uwimana’s Arrest
Uwimana in July,10, 2010 with her colleague Saidati Mukakibibi was sentenced to 17 years in prison for faulting the genocide ideology and sectarianism laws.
On April 5, 2012, her sentence was reduced to four years in prison.
The High Court charged Uwimana with endangering national security, genocide denial, defamation of the President, and divisionism.
On February 4, 2011, the High Court sentenced Uwimana to 17 years in prison: 5 years for endangering national security, 10 for genocide denial, 1 for divisionism, and 1 for defamation.
The Umurabyo editor has not been stranger to such charges. In January 2007 she was arrested and imprisoned for one year after she published an anonymous letter undermining the government in Umurabyo.
On April 5, 2012, the Supreme Court cleared Uwimana on the charges of genocide denial and divisionism; however, the Court upheld her convictions for defamation and endangering national security.
Her sentence was to be reduced from 17 years to four years in prison.
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