There is no freedom of speech and expression in Rwanda. Paul Rusesabagina’s Testimony to the UK Parliamentary Human Rights Committee.
Paul Rusesabagina, famous in the movie Hotel Rwanda, who is known for criticizing the Government of Rwanda, told the UK Parliamentary Human Rights Committee that There is no freedom of speech and expression in Rwanda, he added that in order to have peace you must have same political opinions and ideas with the RPF, Kagame’s political party, otherwise you will be government enemy, and the enemy in Rwanda is always assassinated.
Rusesabagina said that in his trial he was prevented from choosing lawyers to defend him himself, where the Government of Rwanda rejected foreign lawyers who were supposed to defend him.
He added that the place where he was imprisoned, he heard many people in prisons in other rooms who were crying because of being tortured.
He mentioned that himself stayed in that bad place for four days, being tortured.
He finally said that among the people kidnapped by the Rwandan government, he was the only one who was kidnapped, taken to Rwanda, and left alive. He was also asked by the UK Parliamentary Human Rights Committee why he was released, he said that the whole world had woken up, especially the USA.
Source: BBC