A story of a courageous Rwandan Mother and prisoner of conscience
“Everything begins on my return to Rwanda” begins Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza’s new book written from her prison cell.
After 16 years of exile in Holland, Victoire decided to return to her home country. The Book Between 4 Walls of the 1930 Prison recounts her life for 3 years, from the moment she announces her candidacy for presidential elections, to her incarceration into the “1930” maximum security prison.
In this book, she describes her encounter with corrupt Rwandan judicial system from within. Interrogations, continuous traps in which she falls, people who hit her, threats, her attempts to register her party, the prohibition of visiting her family in the Netherlands especially not being able to attend her son’s 8th birthday.
“Those politicians are ruthless. There are reasons to be afraid to live in this country. I have just spent more than twelve hours behind bars having done nothing, whatsoever”
