A military court in Uganda on Tuesday freed seven Rwandans several months after they were accused of espionage by Kampala, local media reported in Kigali quoting judicial sources.
Those released include long held detainees Rene Rutagungira, Claude Iyakaremye, Ernest Rwamucyo and his friend Augustine Rutayisire, media reports said.
The Ugandan military in 2017 arrested Rwandans in Uganda and took them away to dungeons where they were subjected to torture, local media in Kigali claimed adding that charges against them kept changing.
Rutagungira who was arrested in the Kampala neighborhood of Bakuli was first accused of “espionage” before he was changed with the kidnapping of Rwandan refugees.
Rutagungira was only a businessman and knew nothing about spying, his wife said.
Their release comes after another Rwandan national Felicien Mbonabaheka was founded dead in Uganda, apparently hacked to death by a machete-wielding gang in Kisoro (south of the country) where the Rwandan national did business in interior décor.
To protect her citizens Rwanda issued a strong advisory warning them against travelling to Uganda.
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