Rwandan political prisoner Victoire Ingabire has been compared to Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyii, and even Patrice Lumumba because of the scale of her challenge to existing belief and power structures that has led to the death and disinheritance of millions in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, most of all in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After becoming the leader of the Rwandan Diaspora’s opposition to the authoritarian regime of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, she returned to Rwanda to run against him in the 2010 election. She was instead placed under house arrest shortly after her return and is now serving a 15 year sentence. This week the African Court of Human and People’s Rights agreed to hear her case on appeal, in Arusha, Tanzania.
— source anngarrison.com By Ann Garrison.