A Rwandan courtroom on Mon refused to grant bail to Diane Rwigara, a prominent critic of President Paul Kagame who has been charged amongst inciting insurrection against the province every bit good every bit other offences.
Rwigara was blocked from challenging Kagame inward August's presidential election in addition to arrested on September 22, along amongst her woman raise in addition to sister, for alleged taxation evasion in addition to forgery every bit good every bit for inciting insurrection.
Her woman raise Adeline was every bit good refused bail on like charges past times the courtroom inward the upper-case missive of the alphabet Kigali, but charges against his sis Diane were lifted in addition to she was released from custody.
In an interview amongst AFP simply earlier her detention final month, Rwigara, 35, said she was a victim of political persecution "for standing against oppression in addition to speaking my mind."
Other critics in addition to opposition figures convey every bit good been detained inward recent weeks inward what observers say is a post-election crackdown on dissent.
The refusal to allow her to run against Kagame, who won the August four election amongst 99 pct of the vote, on claims of procedural irregularities was widely criticised past times Western governments in addition to rights groups.
The courtroom on Mon spoke of the "sensitivity" of the case, adding that Rwigara in addition to her woman raise could flee the province if they were released.
Insurrection carries a possible 15-year prison theatre term.
Rwigara is the miss of Assinapol Rwigara, an entrepreneur who made a fortune inward manufacture in addition to existent estate, in addition to a principal backer of Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR) during its efforts to topple the Hutu extremist regime inward 1994, ending the Rwandan genocide.
Diane Rwigara later on distanced herself from the FPR after her father's expiry inward a machine crash inward 2015, which she has claimed was an “assassination".
AFP