Corruption group condemns threats against staff in Rwanda
Anti-corruption group Transparency International condemned on Saturday a series of threats against its staff in Rwanda, where one of its workers was murdered last year.
The group claimed that an armed man tried to force his way into their offices in the capital Kigali last Tuesday after another attempt to break into the home of a senior staff member.
Rwandan police are investigating both incidents.
Transparency's president Huguette Labelle said activists should be able to work without fear, but "unfortunately this is not the case in Rwanda at the moment".
The killers of Gustave Makonene, one of the group's coordinators found dead near lake Kivu last July, have still not been found.
Human Rights Watch has been critical about the lack of progress of the inquiry, and government "intimidation, harassment, and the threats" against civil society groups in the country, where up to a million people died in a genocide in 1994.
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