Mr Sibomana Sylvain and his colleague Mutuyimana Anselme have appeared today December 4, 2017 in court to appeal against the common political charge of encouraging insurrection levelled against critics of the RPF regime.
The hearing is taking place when the regime is doing everything possible, including repression and deceit, to uproot le FDU-Inkingi from the Rwanda political landscape. But it also happens at a time when the African Court for Human and People’s rights has ruled in the case of the President of FDUInkingi, Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, that article 463 (Organic Law 01/2012/OL, that is used to criminalise free speech, like in her case and the case of Sibomana and Mutuyimana, violates the Universal declaration of human rights, the African charter on human and peoples’ rights and the international convention on political and civil rights.
