Australia’s national broadcaster has reported that a network of alleged Rwandan spies is working to suppress dissident refugees in the country.
The Rwanda government, however, told the BBC that the allegations made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) are baseless.
Rwandan Mubarak Kalisa told ABC he thought he was far from danger when he moved to Brisbane after attempts on his life in South Africa.
Mr Kalisa alleged that in South Africa he had been contacted by Rwandan embassy officials who wanted to enlist him to kill his friend, and when he relocated to Australia he received death threats.
“We’re after you… you will find yourself lying in a pool of your own blood. If we don’t find you, we’ll find your wife or your kids,” read one of the threats he says he was sent by text.
Police in Australia have warned him to be vigilant whenever he is driving and feels followed, Mr Kalisa said.
“These are lies,” Olivier Nduhungirehe of Rwanda’s foreign affairs ministry told the BBC.
“We don’t have time to comment on everything reported in the media.”
Rwanda’s government has previously denied accusations it had a hand in the murder of Patrick Karegeya, a former military intelligence chief who fled to South Africa.
It has also denied being behind the 2010 shooting of former army chief Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa in South Africa.