{"id":41655,"date":"2020-07-07T18:17:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/twelve-rwandans-released-from-kampala-illegal-incarceration\/"},"modified":"2020-07-09T13:45:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T13:45:30","slug":"twelve-rwandans-released-from-kampala-illegal-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/twelve-rwandans-released-from-kampala-illegal-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Rwandans released from Kampala illegal incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At around 11:15 a.m., 12 male Rwandans, were brought to the Kagitumba border, who had been detained and persecuted for a long time in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>They were taken to the Kagitumba border in a Coaster vehicle, accompanied by Ugandan police and staff from the country&#8217;s immigration office. First, they washed their hands to prevent Coronavirus, then they were tested fever to see if there are any signs of infection.<\/p>\n<p>The released Rwandans were immediately sent to a 14-day quarantine at the University of Rwanda, Rukara Branch, before allowing them to go to their families.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda has been requesting Uganda to release its nationals who were illegally detained, or bring them before the courts to be notified and allow Rwandan ambassadors in Uganda to reach them.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint effort to find a solution to the long-running tensions between the two countries, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Uganda, Sam Kutesa on June 4 said the country had agreed to release 130 Rwandans, but about 310 charged with serious crimes will continue to be kept in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal detention and torture of Rwandans living in Uganda took another step in 2017 until Rwanda reached the point of urging its people not to go to Uganda.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36130 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-3250-fed09.jpg\" alt=\"They were taken to the Kagitumba border in a Coaster vehicle, accompanied by Ugandan police and staff from the country&#039;s immigration office.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36131 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2020-07-07_at_10.36.31_1_-44ea5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36132 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2020-07-07_at_10.36.31_3_-5f973.jpg\" alt=\"First, they washed their hands to prevent Coronavirus, then they were tested fever to see if there are any signs of infection.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36133 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bahagaze_ok-b42ee.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36134 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-2989-77024.jpg\" alt=\"The released Rwandans were immediately sent to a 14-day quarantine at the University of Rwanda, Rukara Branch, before allowing them to go to their families.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda government has handed over to Rwanda its 12 citizens that had been illegally arrested and detained in the country for a long period of time. The now free  Rwandans arrived at the Uganda-Rwanda Kagitumb border Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[204],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-elina-jonas-ruzindaza"],"bylines":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":103}],"contributors":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":103}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41655"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41655"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}