Rwanda's government should review 2 laws banning the promotion of genocide ideology and sectarianism, Amnesty International says.
The campaign groups says the vague wording has enabled their misuse to criminalize dissent.
The government was widely criticized for using them to smother opposition in the run-up the elections won by President Paul Kagame this month.
Rwanda's justice minister told the BBC the Amnesty allegations were baseless.
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The laws were introduced in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus were killed in 100 days.
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