In the Name of Justice?

Last year a prominent human rights lawyer named Peter Erlinder visited Rwanda to defend Victoire Ingabire, accused of the infamous genocide denier charge. The genocide denier law wields big power in Rwanda. As Mr. Erlinder came into the country, he was arrested for this same denier law. Most people know this law is overreaching and that I think most of the outside world would have agreed that his arrest was unjust. To make that story even spicier, a few days into imprisonment, Rwandese authorities claimed that Erlinder tried to kill himself by overdosing on medicine. Those close to him were shocked and saying that Peter would never do such a thing. This was obviously a clear attempt by the Rwanda government to bend the law to railroad Erlinder and make him a non-intity. It obviously worked because he was released a day later and forced to leave the country. Ms. Ingabire is still in prison today.
This story screams injustice and a huge violation of human rights. Rwanda should be held to a higher standard but by who?
I wanted to share that story about a developing country struggling to uphold human rights, but lets fast forward to today.
Wikilinks splashed into the media with a sharp condemnation of the high profile Julian Assange. The person that enabled Assange to leak those thousands of documents was a boy, a 23 year old soldier named Bradley Manning. He has been held at Quanico in continued solidary confinement 23 hours a day, well except for a guard checking on him every 5 minutes. Going to sleep, he has to strip down to his underwear and cannot lean toward the wall. He also is not allowed to exercise at all in his cell. Last week Manning’s lawyer reported that Manning was forced to strip naked and remain that way for 7 hours due the murmur of… suicide.
Maybe we’re not so different Rwanda and USA, these 2 cases seem deniably similar and disgusting to me. As I have said many times before, we are all children of God and deserve dignity. This is disappointed and needs to stop.