 Rwanda also joined the East African Community in 2009 at the same time as its neighbor Burundi.However, since then Freedom House rates Rwanda as "not free", with political rights and civil liberties trending downwards.In 2010 Amnesty International "strongly condemned a worrying attack on a Rwandan opposition group" in the lead-up to presidential elections, citing the case of Victoire Ingabire, president of the FDU-Inkingi (United Democratic Forces) and her aide Joseph Ntawangundi, attacked in February 2010 while collecting party registration documents from a government building in Kigali.