October 30 will mark International Day of Political Prisoners. Each day this week, @HRF is featuring a "dispatch from detention" from a different prisoner of conscience, including @VictoireUmuhoza. The Lantos Foundation is honored to work alongside Victoire's family to advocate for her freedom.

I’m living in the South-East in Brazil in the middle of nowhere. Yesterday, I drove 45 minutes to the next pharmacy to pick up my autism medication. And guys, I live in a very sparsely populated area. People here know about my political views, and some even follow me on this platform. Several people (those at the gas station and the pharmacist) brought up the elections. And you know what? They were whispering. Literally whispering. They no longer dare to speak their minds. They told me how difficult things have become. They’re afraid that even the slightest criticism could get Alexandre de Moraes to send someone after them. They no longer feel safe because of the authoritarian central government. And that’s despite the fact that my entire region, and pretty much all of southern Brazil, is overwhelmingly conservative. What’s happening to Brazil is extremely frightening. It’s as if an entire population is being held hostage by a Supreme Court judge who thinks he’s God, and a president who was once convicted of corruption and whose political opponents are being pushed aside, just like the communists once did in the Soviet Union. I hope the right finally unites and, if necessary, even breaks away from the tyrannical regime in Brasília. People have the right to freedom and self-determination. Here in Brazil and everywhere else in the world.

Former DRC President #Kabila's interview below is an example of how one man's desire for power and wealth can be so great that the millions of Congolese who could die as a result of "his" revolution are viewed as disposable. Former President Kabila poses the question, "Does the Congo need an #election or a #revolution?" An election is when the people freely choose their leaders. A revolution, especially one aimed at a democratically elected government, is a coup that overturns the will of the people. Rwanda's @PaulKagame and Kabila have chosen armed conflict and made it clear that the right of the Congolese people to freely elect their president, and the potential deaths of millions, are secondary to their desire for power and access to the DRC's vast natural resource wealth. @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @SusieWiles47 @HouseForeignGOP @HouseForeign @SenateForeign @SFRCdems @RepJames @RepSaraJacobs @SecRubio @StateDept @DeputySecState @AsstSecStateAF @PressSec @CNN @BBCAfrica @AP @ReutersAfrica @DeptofWar

Ukwakira 2026 Kwibuka #Day25 📍UBWICANYI BWAKOREWE #ABAHUTU MU NKAMBI YA BILIKO ▶️Ku itariki ya 17 Ukuboza 1996, ingabo za AFDL / APR, bagabye igitero kuri Ziralo (Kivu y’Amajyepfo), #Bunyakiri (Kivu y’Amajyepfo) na #Ngungu (Amajyaruguru ya Kivu), bagose inkambi z’agateganyo i Biriko kandi bica amagana y’impunzi z’Abahutu hamwe n’abasivili b’Abanyekongo, barimo abagore n’abana. ▶️Abasirikare bakoresheje amasasu cyangwa udufuni mu kwica aba bahutu. maze imirambo ishyingurwa n’abaturage ba Biriko imyinshi nayo yajugunywe mu ruzi rwa Nyawarongo. ▶️Izi ni impunzi z’Abahutu zo mu Rwanda zitashoboye kugera ku muhanda munini uhuza Bukavu na Walikale mbere yuko abasirikare ba AFDL / #APR bigarurira umuhanda wa kaburimbo uhuza Hombo na #Walikale. ▶️Kubera ko izi mpunzi zari zizi ibyabereye ku kiraro cya #Hombo, zashatse gusubira i #Masisi, benshi bakora inkambi mu mudugudu wa #Biriko muri Groupement ya Walowa-Luanda. ▶️Izo mpunzi z’Abahutu bo mu #Rwanda hamwe n’abasivili b’Abanyekongo bari bageze mu gace ka #Walikale mu Gushyingo 1996 banyuze mu nzira eshatu zitandukanye. ▶️Itsinda rimwe ryaturutse i #Bukavu, ryageze ku butaka bwa Walikale rinyuze Bunyakiri. Itsinda rya kabiri, naryo ryaturutse i Bukavu, banyuze mu ishyamba rya Kahuzi-Biega n’abanyuze Nyabibwe. Itsinda rya nyuma, ryari ryarahunze inkambi za Kivu y’Amajyaruguru, ryageze ku gace ka #Walikale rinyuze mu majyepfo ya #Masisi no mu mijyi ya Busurungi na #Biriko. ▶️Bakurikiranywe kandi bagenda bicwa umugenda n’abasirikare ba AFDL / APR. Aba bose ni abantu. Abana b’u #Rwanda bishwe gusa kuko ari #abahutu. Tubazirikane kandi duharanire ko izi nzirakarengane zihabwa ubutabera. @UNOSAPG @UN @UnityClubRw @Unity_MemoryRw

HAS KAGAME’S RWANDA BECOME A DEN & REFUGE OF CRIMINALS? “Roberts Kabera’s murderer fled Uganda to Rwanda” ~Prossy Boona 👇🏽For more m.facebook.com/story.php?sto…

KWIBUKA JENOSIDE YAKOREWE ABAHUTU, #Day23 📍UBWICANYI BWAKOREWE ABAHUTU I #NYANTENDE. ▶️Ku ya 26 Ukwakira 1996, imitwe y’ingabo z’u #Rwanda #APR ifatanyije n’inyeshyamba za #AFDL bishe impunzi zigera kuri 600 zahungaga mu nzira ihuza Nyantende – Walungu-Centre na Nyantende- #Bukavu. ▶️Abenshi mu bahohotewe bari baturutse mu gace ka #Uvira no mu kibaya cya #Rusizi. Bishwe barashwe, abandi bicishwa ibyuma cyangwa bagafatwa na éclats z’ama gerenade. ▶️Abasirikare batwitse ahantu henshi impunzi zari ziri. Abenshi mu bahohotewe ni abagore, abana ndetse n’abasaza. Nk’uko byatangajwe n’abatangabuhamya , abo basirikare bishe abantu 600 maze imirambo ishyingurwa aho n’abaturage bari bahatuye. ▶️Ibi bitero byari byatangiriye muri Uvira kuva ku ya 22 Ukwakira 1996, ubwo #AFDL na APR bagabaga Ibitero ku Nkambi mu majyepfo no mu burengerazuba bw’umujyi wa #Bukavu. ▶️Impunzi z’Abahutu, zahunze zerekeza Bukavuzibanza gukambika by’agateganyo i Nyangezi na Nyantende ku muhanda ujya Bukavu, zahavuye zerekeza mu nkambi za Kashusha, INERA na ADI-Kivu (mu majyaruguru ya Bukavu )izindi zerekeza mu nkambi ya Chimanga (iburengerazuba bwa Bukavu mu cyerekezo cya Shabunda). Aha hose zagendaga zicwa umugenda. 🚨🟠✅Bose tubibuke kandi duharanire ubutabera

October2026 Remembering the @HutuGenocide in #Rwanda and in #DRCongo #Day22 📍DESTRUCTION OF #KASHUSHA, #INERA AND ADI-KIVU CAMPS ▶️In 1996, UNHCR estimated that there were 307,499 refugees spread over the 26 camps in the territories of #Walungu, #Kabare and #Kalehe, commonly known as the “#Bukavu camps”. The attacking forces of Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (AFDL) and Rwandan Patriotic Army (#RPA) advanced towards Bukavu from the South. When they left Nyantende village, the AFDL/APR troops split into two groups. The first group continued in the direction of Bukavu. The second group headed towards Walungu-Centre. ⏩On Saturday 2 November 1996, after the capture of Bukavu, AFDL/#APR units attacked the #ADI-Kivu, #Kashusha and #INERA refugee camps in the #Kabare territory with heavy weapons, killing thousands of refugees. It is around ten o’clock in the morning when a rain of bombs begins to fall on the three camps of Kashusha, Inera and ADI Kivu. Then #RPA soldiers burst into the camp, machine-gunning with automatic weapons, supported by heavy weapons. During the attack, AFDL/APR soldiers fired indiscriminately. Outflanked, FAZ troops from the camp security contingent CZSC (Contingent zaïrois pour la sécurité des camps) fled, followed by some of the refugees. ⏩No one will be able to count the refugees who fell under the bullets of the RPA soldiers during 4 days of the relentless massacre. The save-who-can was catastrophic; no parent could have time to take their child to flee with it, and so far some surviving families are still searching for family members. ▶️A long human tide took the Kavumu-Goma road which runs along Lake Kivu. Another column of refugees headed towards the Kawuzi-Biega Natural Park and trying to make their way towards the town of Kisangani. In this group were about ten nuns from the congregation of the Benebikira sisters as well as a Catholic priest. They were caught two days later by RPF soldiers in the locality of Shabunda. The sisters were raped and then killed; the priest was also tortured and then executed. “I was part of the flow of people who fled by road to Goma. In passing, the inhabitants of the camps located along the road, those of Idjwi and the local populations came to swell the crowd. Three days later, all this human tide finds itself blocked in Nyabibwe, a small town some two hundred kilometers from Bukavu. We had no way to advance any further as @PaulKagame’s soldiers have taken up positions in Minova and are operating hand in hand with the local Mai Mai fighters who were bought to hunt down and kill Rwandan Hutu refugees. The only solution we had left was to climb the mountains, cross the forests of Masisi and Walikale to try to reach the road that leads to Kisangani.” ▶️In about two hours since the start of the attack, all that remained in the camps were the wounded, sick, old people and children who had lost their way in the stampede. They were regrouped by the Rwandan Tutsi soldiers and massacred the same day. After systematically looting the camps, @rpfinkotanyi soldiers burned the bodies of the victims with gasoline and the ashes loaded into military trucks and thrown into the #Rusizi River according to reliable testimonies I have received from the Congolese survivors of Kavumu and Bukavu. According to the same sources, that same day, two young women who were hospitalized in Kavumu maternity hospital were thrown alive with their infants into the toilet of a local trader by the name of Tumbo. @UNOSAPG @un_council @CNNAfrica @CNN @F1 @SkySportsF1 @Unity_MemoryRw #RwTo @UNGeneva @UnityClubRw @AJEnglish @AlJazeera