School girls in #Burundi finally free after days in jail, accused of scribbling on the president’s photo. They should never have been arrested in the first place. Charges shld be dropped. @hrw @cnni www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/27/afr…
Lewis Mudge
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Lewis Mudge
@LewisMudge
Central Africa Director at Human Rights Watch. Husband. Dad. New Englander. Bo-Sox fan. UNC/SOAS/UoE. Re-tweets not endorsements. Views expressed are my own.
Vermont, USA
Joined March 2014
- Just a few kilometers away from the Kigali Convention Center, where Commonwealth government leaders will be discussing good governance, jailed Rwandan journalists and critics are brutally being reduced to silence. New from @hrw hrw.org/news/2022/06/1…
- Our thoughts today are with John Williams Ntwali's family as he is buried. @Rwandapolice have still not produced police report, photos, CCTV footage, or other evidence from the accident. @HRW continues to call for an independent investigation. hrw.org/news/2023/01/2…
- Our thoughts today, and in coming weeks, are with those who lost loved ones during the 1994 genocide. The violence that was triggered on April 6, 29 years ago, continues to have ripple effects and cause suffering to this day. Many still wait for justice and accountability. @hrw
- Today marks the birthday of #KizitoMihigo. He would have been 40. @hrw continues to doubt his death was a suicide. Until an independent inquiry is launched, dissidents will continue to die under mysterious circumstances in #Rwanda.
- 1/18 A LONG thread for those following the #Rusesabagina case in #Rwanda and the cloak-and-dagger circumstances of his arrest. Rwanda routinely uses unlawful means of arrest/detention and torture on both real and perceived opponents. 2017 @hrw report:
- In #Rwanda journalists and political opponents disappear or end up dead too often. These latest disappearances require credible investigations. Latest press release from @hrw: hrw.org/news/2019/08/1…
- #Rwanda Les autorités devraient garantir une enquête indépendante sur la mort de John Williams Ntwali. Déclaration conjointe de 90 organisations de la société civile et associations de journalistes y compris @hrw_fr hrw.org/fr/news/2023/0…
- Thread 1/6 Daring open letter to @PaulKagame by @CkayumbaThre in which he states "illegal detention center do exist and so do 'safe houses', and torture exists in some of these places. I have personally met many individuals who have been in these centers." chronicles.rw/2021/02/10/a-l…
- 1/ Another dark day for press freedom in #Rwanda. Cyuma Hassan's 7-year sentence + fine were maintained on appeal. His arrest, treatment in detention, and parody of a trial, all send a clear message: #freespeech will not be tolerated in #Rwanda.
- 1/ During #Rwanda's UPR, many countries called out #Rwanda's human rights record. It’s high time for #Rwanda to address persistent human rights violations and put an end to impunity by holding those responsible accountable. hrw.org/news/2021/02/0…
