Rose Kabuye, a senior adviser to Rwandan president Paul Kagame, has been "conditionally released" after being imprisoned in France this week.

Kabuye, who was on official business in Germany, was extradited to Paris so that authorities could question her on her alleged role in the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, who died in a 1994 plane crash. His death is viewed as the catalyst for the genocide of approximately 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda.

France claims Kabuye and eight other people orchestrated the killing to possibly pave the way for current Rwandan president, Paul Kagame.  France took Kabuye into custody on Wednesday, but she’s since been released and she promised that she had nothing to do with Habyarimana’s death: "I know I am innocent. Nobody sent me. I decided, when I got arrested in Frankfurt, that I should come straight to face the French Justice and to prove my innocence." The arrest itself has fueled tension between France and Rwanda, which has been roiling since France began its investigation into Habyarimana’s death and issued arrest warrants for Kabuye and others back in 2006. For their part, Rwanda is pursuing charges against 33 French officials they claim took part in the genocide.

They’ve also pulled their ambassador out of Germany for that nation’s agreement to extradite Kabuye. Kabuye is enormously popular among Rwandans and hundreds have been protesting around the world for France to drop the charges. Rwandan nationals in Boston staged a peaceful protest this week and say a few hundred participants appeared outside the German and French consulates there.