Growing concern over missing lawmaker
Publish date: 19 August 2019
Issue Number: 837
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Rwanda
The wife of a Rwandan opposition party member who disappeared last month has told the BBC she has lost hope of finding her husband. Joselyne Mwiseneza said she did not know whether Eugène Ndereyimana was stll alive. The politician, who represented the opposition FDU-Inkingi party in the east of the country, went missing on 15 July. Victoire Ingabire, leader of FDU-Inkingi, said Habarugira Damascène who held the same position as Ndereyimana, also went missing in 2016. His body was later discovered. Ingabire, a vocal critic of the Rwandan Government, has previously condemned the killing of opposition members.