The prosecution has recommended to a judge on Thursday that a group of 10 members of a Christian organisation called “INTWARANE ZA YEZU NA MALIYA” arrested in July last year for taking part in an illegal demonstration, be sentenced to serve 15 years in prison.
The demonstration held by the members of the religious group known as “Intwarane” (Warriors of Jesus) was dispersed near the presidential residence located in Kiyovu, a suburb of Kigali city where the group said they wanted to present a prophetic message on the apocalypse to Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
The arrest comes as the government continues to denounce the proliferation of sects which often divert people by preventing them from attending to national development activities.
Such organizations whose activities are described by analysts as religious business have also been accused of intoxicating the people’s minds by dividing them into ethnic and regional groupings.
In Rwanda, a country of 10.5 million people, 63 percent of the population are Catholics and nine percent are Protestants, with the rest being Muslims and animists.
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