{{A renowned Rwandan Lawyer Evode Uwizeyimana has protested against the interim report on the lack of freedom of association in Rwanda prepared by a Human rights consultant on behalf of the UN Commission for Human Rights.}}
Maina Kiai, author of the interim report, writes that the freedoms of human rights in Rwanda have a long way to go. He also indicated that the space for expression of political ideas is closed for political opponents in Rwanda.
Uwizeyimana, who is a lawyer and researcher at the University of Montreal in Canada, is also an international consultant in legal matters and respect for human rights near the Rwandan Ministry of Justice.
Speaking to IGIHE, Uwizeyimana said “Maina’s report does not reflect reality.” He said that Maina came with preconceived position on Rwanda that he does approve. “What he wrote is not what he saw”
However, Uwizeyimana said as a lawyer he is not the right person to answer this question of accuracy of Maina’s report better it should be addressed to spokesperson of the Rwandan Government.
But as someone who knows Maina, he has also the rights to make comments on what Maina wrote.
Uwizeyimana said that the findings that were included in that report are not different from other reports that were written by different rights groups including HRW’s which are full of prejudices about Rwanda.
The Rwandan Canadian lawyer said that “the UN Consultant burned the procedure of scientific research, he entered the prisons of Rwanda to meet with the detainees, but he has not approached the government side.”
The information he learned from prisoners, for my part, I do not give them any credit,” he said.
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