Brussels, 18 December 2015     Dear High Representative,     After 16 years of exile in the Netherlands, Ms. Victoire  Ingabire Umuhoza, president of the     Unified Democratic Forces FDU-Inkingi, a coalition of  Rwandan opposition parties, returned     to Rwanda to run for presidential elections scheduled for  August 2010. On 14th October she     was arrested after weeks of police harassment,  intimidation and media lynching, charged     with genocide ideology, genocide denial, and conspiracy  against the regime. Charges     commonly used to silence any opposition in a country  where freedom of expression is     severely curtailed.     After a flawed trial, condemned among others by Amnesty  International, Human Rights     Watch and the Foundation Jean Jaurès, she was sentenced  in first 8 years in prison. On     appeal, the sentence was increased to 15 years. Yet, the  Supreme Court had invalidated     some of the evidences used to convict her in the first  place.     Having lost all...