Ingabire’s Lawyer Says The New Times Distorted Speech

{{Victoire Ingabire is in the spotlight again as her lawyer Ian Edwards informed court that the speech of his client was distorted by the media.

He claimed to court that the speech was Ingabire’s opinion and that it carried no hate ideology against the ethnic Tutsi.}}

Over a million Ethnic Tutsis were killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Edwards accused the {The New Times} for distorting the message while translating from the original speech that was made in Kinyarwanda language by his client Ingabire while visiting the Genocide memorial site at Gisozi in Kigali.

Ingabires lawyer who asked court to replay the speech requested the court to carefully apply the 2012 law on genocide ideology while considering the case of his client and by carefully synthesizing the speech.

Edwards admitted that perpetrators of genocide should be punished wherever they are. However, he said the law on genocide lacks clarity.

Ingabire’s Lawyer noted that his clients speech was a representation of her personal Opinion.

{Ingabire Speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2f8Vu-YY4}