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Rwanda ordered to pay opposition leader Ingabire $61,000

Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire leaving the Mageragere Prison in Kigali after a presidential pardon on September 15, 2018. FILE PHOTO | NMG

By  Fred Oluoch

Contributor in Nairobi, Kenya

Nation Media Group

The Rwandan government has been ordered to pay opposition leader Victoire Ingabire $61,000 in compensatory damages her family endured while she was in prison.

The African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights Friday ruled that Ingabire suffered material and moral injury as a result of rights violation.

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