One Month Since Rwandan Opposition Leader ‘Disappeared’

On the night of October 7, Rwandan opposition leader Boniface Twagirimana ‘disappeared’ from his prison cell in Mpanga in southern Rwanda. One month later, his family and friends still have no information on his whereabouts. Expand Rwandan opposition leader Boniface Twagirimana. © 2016 Private Twagirimana, a 43-year-old father of two, is deputy leader of the FDU-Inkingi, an unregistered opposition party in Rwanda. Police arrested him and six other FDU-Inkingi members on September 6, 2017, as well as other party members in the following days. Later that month, eight FDU-Inkingi members,…

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