Kagame administration on the spot over illegal detentions

Global rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the Rwandan authorities of arbitrary arrests and unlawfully holding the country’s vulnerable people in an “unofficial” detention centre in Kigali, commonly known as KwaKabuga located in Gikondo.

In the report titled ‘Why not call this a prison’ released on Thursday, the New York-based group says detainees most of whom include street vendors, sex workers, beggars, homeless people and suspected petty criminals, detained between 2011 and 2015 at the centre are ill-treated and held in “deplorable” conditions.