Opposition Leader Sentenced to 8 Years in Rwanda A court in Rwanda has sentenced the country's top opposition leader to eight years in prison on charges of treason and genocide denial. Judge Alice Rulisa, speaking for a three-judge panel, said Tuesday the court acquitted Victoire Ingabire on charges of promoting ethnic division and genocide ideology. The court said Ingabire was given a lighter sentence because she had written a letter to President Paul Kagame asking for leniency. Ingabire's lawyer, Iain Edwards, said Ingabire will appeal the court's ruling. Ingabire is a Hutu political leader in a country run by a Tutsi president who has made ethnic identification taboo. More than 500,000 Rwandans, mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were killed in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.