Popular Rwandan gospel musician found dead in police cell

The official account of a suicide is expected to be met with scepticism in a country where the government is frequently accused of targeting perceived critics.

A popular Rwandan gospel musician who was found guilty of conspiracy to murder or harm President Paul Kagame has been found dead in a police cell.

Kizito Mihigo, 38, an ethnic Tutsi survivor of the 1994 genocide that killed more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them, died by suicide in the cell in Rwanda’s capital Kigali, police said.