Lacking the independence to stand up and protect free speech in accordance with international law continue to be a challenge for many.
Freedom of expression continues to be a big problem, people are punished for simply expressing their opinion, Rwanda remains one of the countries where freedom of expression is equal to crime in the country. it becomes a big challenge for a politician with different ideas to express himself. According to Lewis Mudge, HRW’s Central Africa director, he said Rwandan courts were not focused on protecting freedom of expression. “The judicial authorities of Rwanda, who do not have the freedom to defend themselves and protect freedom of expression in accordance with international law, have unjustly convicted and imprisoned people for their reserved speeches and opinions,” he said. declared during HRW’s launch of its latest report on Rwanda: Wave of. The free speech prosecutor said that because Rwanda had opposition parties and few human rights organizations and independent media remained weak, there was a history of abuse and disappearances of opposition figures. even after the release of Victoire Ingabire in 2018, who was president of the opposition party FDU-Inkingi before creating Dalfa-Umurinzi in November 2019, various members of her party were victims at different times of harassment, threats, arrests and some of them were victims of harassment. deceased . or disappeared under suspicious circumstances according to the human rights report. According to the witness interviewed by HRW, the witness said that when you have different ideas than the government, you are persecuted, the only option to have peace is to be on the same line with the government.
Source HRW