KIGALI, RWANDA—One of Rwanda’s most prominent opposition leaders walked free on Saturday after the government approved the early release of more than 2,100 prisoners with little explanation. Supporters of Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and the state-run The New Times newspaper posted photos of the opposition leader leaving Nyarugenge prison hours after the justice ministry’s announcement. In this file photo taken on April 7, 2010, Rwandan United Democratic Forces (FDU-Inkingi) Chairperson Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza poses at her home in Kigali, in Rwanda. Opposition leader Ingabire, who was sentenced in 2012 to 10 years in jail, was unexpectedly freed from jail on September 15, after President Paul Kagame permitted her early release. Some 800,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis, were killed by Hutu extremists during the Rwandan genocide, according to the United Nations.

Source: thestar September 15, 2018 14:03 UTC