Rwanda National Police is holding 6 men and 3 women for convening an illegal meeting protesting against a court ruling last week which rejected the founder of PS-Imberakuri party appeal and maintained a four year jail sentence and a fine of Frw100, 000.
The group was arrested at Bernard Ntaganda mother’s house located at Nyakabanda sector, Nyarugenge district.
The group claimed to belong to PS-Imberakuri, Ntaganda’s faction which is illegal.
The protestors are detained at the Nyamirambo Police station pending investigations to establish everyone’s role in the charges.
According to Police sources, the group had been warned by Ntaganda’s mother not to return to her house after they had convened at her house a fortnight ago.
However, they returned on Sunday under the pretence of comforting her over her son’s upheld sentence and staged demonstrations.
Police Spokesman Supt. Theos Badege revealed that upon a tip off about the activity, Police officers were dispatched to the scene where they found that the group possessed among others inflammatory messages that incited divisionism and rebellion against government.
“People should understand that illegal political activities, incitement, divisionism and rebelling against government are considered crimes and hence punishable by Rwanda’s penal code,” Badege said.
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