Human Rights, Justice and Democracy Advocate. Secretary General of @WLCongress

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Joined September 2009
PAUL RUSESABAGINA IS FREE 🤩🤩🥳🥳❤️❤️🛬🛬🛬 Dad has just arrived in San Antonio, Texas🛬🛬🛬 Thank you to EVERYONE who worked soooo hard to bring him home. 🙏❤️🙏 Our Family is finally reunited today. 💞💞#FreeRusesabagina @freethehero #TheHeroIsFree #FreedHero #HotelRwanda
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Carine Kanimba retweeted
I’m deeply worried about Rwandan refugees living in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania!A friend Rutembesa Guillaume,used social media to speak out about the injustices he said he had experienced in Rwanda. After arriving in Kenya, he continued to denounce these injustices and…
The capital city of East Africa, Nairobi has become the Vienna of world war and Cold War eras. Almost all dictatorships around the world have their intelligence posts in Nairobi. Close to 10 high profile cross border abductions have occurred in just a space of two years.
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Carine Kanimba retweeted
Behind every political prisoner is a human story—a family separated, a voice silenced, a courageous life interrupted. On Friday, 10/30, we will gather at the Lincoln Memorial to speak their names, honor their courage, and stand with those fighting for their freedom. Join us at 5 PM. #FreedomStartsWithAName Register: ned.org/events/roll-call-for…
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No amount of sports sponsorship can erase the repression and human rights abuses committed by #Kagame’s regime. The @RwandaGov cannot continue to hide behind the global appeal of sports. The @NBA, @AVFCOfficial, @Atleti and @F1 must confront their role in helping Kagame’s government launder its international image. Sportswashing has consequences. So does silence. espn.com/nba/story/_/id/5028…
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Carine Kanimba retweeted
The final results of #Serbia historic elections:
Serbia, 96% sample of CeSID / Ipsos parallel count: National parliament election SL-*: 53.6% (+53.6) SNS+-EPP: 39.3% (-8.8) SPS/JS+-*: 2.2% (-4.5) NDSS/PKS-*: 0.9% (-4.3) SVM-EPP: 0.8% (-0.9) PDD+-*: 0.7% (+0.7) SDP/CDP-*: 0.5% (+0.5) PSS BK-*: 0.4% (+0.4) SPP-*: 0.3% (-0.5) SSP/SRCE+-PES: 0.3% (+0.3) SDA Sandžaka-NR: 0.3% (-0.3) RS/NKPJ-*: 0.2% (-0.1) LZS-*: 0.1% (+0.1) SRSJ-*: 0.1% (+0.1) NS/BUNT-*: 0.1% (-0.8) Gruda-*: 0.1% (+0.1) SBR/GSGS-*: 0.0% (-0.2) ĆOJZT-*: 0.0% +/- vs. 2023 election result ➤ europeelects.eu/serbia
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🌏👊🏼 Voices of Liberty: @NilofarAyoubi, WLC Leadership Council member (Afghanistan). #VoicesOfLiberty
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Carine Kanimba retweeted
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton on Thursday welcomed Formula One’s decision to return to Africa, but revealed reservations over the choice of Rwanda to host the continent’s first Grand Prix in more than three decades. u.afp.com/SCCt
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Carine Kanimba retweeted
I have been to Kigali and you see a military officer fully armed, stationed strategically within every 10 meters. That country is not peaceful, it's fearful.
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Freedom starts with a name. Ahead of October 30, the International Day of Political Prisoners, WLC joins 50+ organizations worldwide in a united call for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners. We will say their names. We will stand with their families. We will fight until they are all free. #FreeThem #FreedomStartsWithAName Read the joint statement: worldlibertycongress.org/joi…
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Carine Kanimba retweeted
When you are in Rwanda, you can feel an atmosphere of war. Heavily armed soldiers are everywhere, on every street corner. That is not what peace looks like; it is what fear looks like. 🇷🇼 #FreeRwanda from #Kagame
I have been to Kigali and you see a military officer fully armed, stationed strategically within every 10 meters. That country is not peaceful, it's fearful.
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Carine Kanimba retweeted
The gruesome way Robert Kabera died is not haphazard. Joining the Rwandan Patriotic Front involves an oath- an oath Kabera as ex-military will have taken - which calls for anyone betraying the cause to be crucified, hanged or have their head separated from their body. 1/3
Heartbreaking and horrifying. Another Rwandan dissident, Robert Kabera, was found beheaded in Uganda. @RamsNFL why accept “Visit Rwanda” sponsorship from a regime with a documented record of killings and transnational repression? apnews.com/article/uganda-rw…
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Carine Kanimba retweeted
Heartbreaking and horrifying. Another Rwandan dissident, Robert Kabera, was found beheaded in Uganda. @RamsNFL why accept “Visit Rwanda” sponsorship from a regime with a documented record of killings and transnational repression? apnews.com/article/uganda-rw…
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Deeply disturbing reports: Sergeant Major Robert Kabera has been murdered in Kamengo, Uganda. He spent the night at the property, his body was found the next morning, decapitated, the head missing. Sergeant Robert was an outspoken critic of Kagame's regime, and every indication so far points to Kigali. This bears the hallmarks of yet another extrajudicial killing in a long pattern of transnational repression.
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#F1 now reeks of the blood of innocent Rwandan and Congolese civilians killed amid #Kagame’s actions. Women are raped, children die in #DRC while in 🇷🇼 critics are still killed or arrested on false charges. #SouthAfrica would have been a better choice for the African Grand Prix.
Replying to @F1Yapathon
@F1Yapathon, Thanks mate for speaking up for Rwandans. We can’t freely make these videos while living in #Rwanda because we could be killed within the next hour💔 #F1 now reeks of blood and the bodies of innocent people #drc for choosing to associate itself with #kagame's regime.
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Carine Kanimba retweeted
I started visiting Rwanda around 2010, when you still needed a visa to travel to Rwanda. In this picture is sports, youth and culture minister Joe Habineza, with me. He died in 2021. We would hang out whenever I was in Rwanda. Went around the city of Kigali, where people recognised him and praised him. Mr. Habineza was Rwanda’s Ambassador to Nigeria then and he would bring visa sticker to the Lagos airport from Abuja and put it on my passport and we would fly to Kigali. I volunteered at Kwetu Institute to teach. That’s a film school owned by Eric Kabera. This is where it gets interesting. I lost my luggage on RwandAir. After trying to reach Yvonne Makolo, its CEO and she told me they would not do anything, I came to Twitter to call them out. On my next trip to Rwanda, 8 men in suit came to my hotel on the day I was supposed to leave and took me in and kept me in prison for 2 weeks… Until there was an intervention from people Kagame listened to, like President Obasanjo… When he imprisoned Paul Rusesabagina, I had to work with his family to reach out to those prominent Africans who started talking to him. So, when you go to Rwanda for Formula 1 in 2030, which is years away, behave well.
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Africa's second great experiment with liberal democracy is failing, says @Winnie_Byanyima. "Our democratic project is being hollowed out and it's structural. A small elite controls the state and institutions. Elections take place but power never moves." 🔗youtube.com/watch?v=AsHL7FKv…
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🌍 Democracy in Retreat: Is the Rule of Law Dying in Africa? Join WLC leaders and democracy advocates for a live X Space on the challenges facing freedom, justice, and democracy across Africa. 🗓️ Friday, October 16 🕖 7 PM CET xitter.cf/i/spaces/1mGPaZk… 🎙️ Join the conversation. Amplify African voices. Defend freedom.
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Formula 1’s return to Africa is a historic milestone. But its 10-year deal with Rwanda must not become a tool to whitewash repression. WLC calls for transparency, independent human rights scrutiny, and accountability. Africa deserves F1. Rwandans deserve freedom. Read our statement 👇 worldlibertycongress.org/for…
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Carine Kanimba retweeted
For almost 25 years, Hanna Petros Solomon has lived without her parents. Her father was arrested in Eritrea in 2001 after calling for democratic reform. Two years later, her mother was detained. Hanna reflects on what it means to grow up without your parents.
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