{Kigali – A Rwandan court on Friday postponed the verdict for opposition figure Victoire Ingabire, accused of bankrolling terrorism and denying the 1994 genocide, until October 19.}<\/p>\n
The court said it would wait for the decision of a higher court on a separate suit filed by Ingabire before handing down its verdict.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe court realised that Ingabire filed a suit in the Supreme Court challenging the genocide ideology law,\u201d judge Alice Rulisa told the court, adding that a lawyer for Ingabire had also requested the court wait for the Supreme Court ruling before handing down its own decision.<\/p>\n
In late June the same court had already postponed the verdict once.<\/p>\n
Ingabire, leader of the Unified Democratic Forces (FDU), a political grouping that has not been allowed to register as a party, is charged with \u201cgiving financial support to a terrorist group, planning to cause state insecurity and divisionism\u201d.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors in April called for her to be given a life sentence.<\/p>\n
Ingabire has been in custody since her arrest in October 2010, and has boycotted proceedings since April after the court cut short a witness who accused Rwandan authorities of rigging evidence against her.<\/p>\n
Rwandan prosecutors claim to have evidence of Ingabire’s \u201cterrorist\u201d activities, including proof of financial transfers to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda, a rebel movement based in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n
Ingabire was absent as she has been boycotting the court proceedings in recent months, but her four co-accused were in court. <\/p>\n
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