Rwandan High Court this Tuesday announced decision that gives the pregnant British woman, Violiotte Uwamahoro, an immediate provisional release.
The court said did not have ‘serious ‘charges against her. She was given bail with no condition mentioned.
“I therefore order her provisional release with immediate effect,” the judge read the ruling this afternoon. However, the judge in her ruling never mentioned any conditions attached to her release.
The court said the testimony given by Jean Pierre Shumbusho, the police officer, who was arrested alongside Uwamahoro was full of several inconsistences on which the court could not base to pin the suspect.
Authorities have been investigating the Rwandan-born Uwamohoro for revelation of state secrets, formation of an irregular armed group and offenses against the established government or president.
Uwamahoro in the first hearing of the case last Thursday denied all the charges.
Shumbusho had told the court that through whatsapp massages Uwamahoro had told him to go to Uganda to join a military youth wing that trains to overthrow the government of Rwanda with a promise to pay his education and take him to UK.
But Uwamahoro said she is not a politician and nor an enemy of the Rwandan government. She accepted she would have conversations with Shumbusho as a relative but they were devoid of all the allegations levelled against her.
Shumbusho pleaded guilty and has been sent on remand for 30 days as further investigations go on.
Ms Violette Uwamahoro is a wife to exiled opposition political activist, Faustin Rukundo who is linked to Rwanda National Congress, a group opposed to Kigali government.
Rwandan police arrested Uwamahoro on February 14 and held her incommunicado until it revealed on March 3 that she was in police custody upon pressure by human rights bodies. Uwamahoro and Rukundo became British nationals in 2014 after having lived in Britain for a long time.
