Gikondo Prison
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For families
How to send mail, money, and visit Gikondo Prison
Step-by-step guidance using the Rwanda system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
Gallery
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Background
Gikondo Prison or Kigali City Prison is a prison in Kigali, Rwanda. It was built in the 1930s, and was only intended originally to house a few thousand inmates. Following the Rwandan genocide, the numbers increased to above 50,000 as a large proportion of the inmates were genocidaires. Those who were brought to the Gacaca courts to undergo trial for war crimes stayed at the prison. The International Committee of the Red Cross played an important role in reviewing the places of detention.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
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Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Valérie Bemeriki1955 · propagandist
Valérie Bemeriki (born 1955) is a Rwandan convicted war criminal and radio entertainer.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Related facilities
Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5560437)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Gikondo Prison. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/gikondo-prison
"Gikondo Prison." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/gikondo-prison.
@misc{worldprisons-gikondo-prison,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Gikondo Prison},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/gikondo-prison},
urldate = {2026-10-15}
}