Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
Born (1968-10-03) 3 October 1968 (age 56)
Political partyDevelopment And Liberty For All
Other political
affiliations		United Democratic Forces of Rwanda
Children3

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza (born 3 October 1968) is a Rwandan politician who served as chairwoman of the Unified Democratic Forces from 2006 to 2019. As an advocate for democracy and critic of President Paul Kagame, she was the UDF's candidate for the Rwandan 2010 presidential elections, but was ultimately arrested and sentenced to prison.[1] A Sakharov Prize nominee, she served 8 years of a 15-year prison sentence in Kigali Central Prison on charges of terrorism and threatening national security.[2][3] She currently leads the party Development And Liberty For All, with the focus to campaign for more political space and for development.[4][5]

  1. ^ "BBC News – Rwanda terror charge for opposition's Victoire Ingabire". Bbc.co.uk. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  2. ^ Amnesty International (July 2017). "Setting the Scene for Elections: Two Decades of Silencing Dissent in Rwanda". www.amnesty.org. p. 13. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  3. ^ Himbara, David (17 September 2018). "How Kagame Deceived The World That He Freed Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza". The Rwandan.
  4. ^ Ingabire Umuhoza, Victoire. "Press Release" (PDF). Dalfa.org. DALFA-Umurinzi. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  5. ^ "Rwanda: l'opposante Victoire Ingabire lance un nouveau parti". RFI. Radio France Internationale. 10 November 2019. Retrieved 9 February 2020.