{{Prosecution has today requested for a life sentence and a fine of Frw 1,400,000 for Victoire Ingabire, on charges including complicity in a terrorist group and denying the 1994 Genocide against ethnic Tutsi.}}<\/p>\n
“We request a life sentence for Victoire Ingabire,” Deputy Prosecutor General Alphonse Hitiyaremye said at the conclusion of Ingabire\u2019s trial that has been ongoing for over seven months.<\/p>\n
However, Inagbire\u2019s four co-accused including; Maj. Uwumuremyi Vital, Lt. Col. Nditurende Tharcisse, Lt. Col. Habiyaremye Noel and Capt. Karuta JMV appeared in court today. Prosecution requested a sentence of ten years in jail for Ingabire\u2019s Four co-accused. <\/p>\n
Ingabire last week said she would boycott her trial after the court cut short a defence witness who accused government of rigging evidence against her.<\/p>\n
Judges will give a verdict on June 29. Ingabire,was not in court- she is charged with “giving financial support to a terrorist group, planning to cause state insecurity and divisionism.” She denies the charges.<\/p>\n
Ingabire\u2019s British lawyer Iain Edwards said he and his Rwandan colleague “are still very much in contact with her.”<\/p>\n
“We await with interest the verdict in this case and look forward to starting the inevitable appeal process,” Edwards said. <\/p>\n
“That process will not end within the borders of the Republic of Rwanda. Victoire is ready for that process and looks to the future with courage, patience and a strong conviction that the truth will eventually be known.”<\/p>\n
Prosecution says it has evidence of Ingabire’s alleged “terrorist” activities, including proof of financial transfers to the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) based in DR-Congo.<\/p>\n
“We have evidence proving her crimes,” said Alain Mukurarinda, a member of the prosecution team.<\/p>\n
“We found documents in her house in Netherlands clearly stating she was attempting to form an armed group aimed at committing terror attacks in Rwanda.”<\/p>\n
Ingabire has been in custody since her arrest in October 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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