A Rwandan casts his vote in a previous election at Rugunga polling station in Kigali. Although Rwanda is constitutionally a multi-party system, there is practically no opposition. PHOTO FILE | NATION
Amnesty International warned Friday that two decades of attacks on Rwanda's opposition, journalists and rights groups have created a "climate of fear" ahead of August presidential election.
"Since the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) took power 23 years ago, Rwandans have faced huge, and often deadly obstacles to participating in public life and voicing criticism of government policy," said Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty's regional director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes.
