Rwandan opposition leader Ingabire appears in court on subversion charges
A long-time critic of President Paul Kagame, Ingabire was previously jailed and has been at times the only government opponent to keep up her activism from inside Rwanda. Most of Kagame's other opponents are in exile.
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