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Anselme Mutuyimana, 30, was found Saturday morning in the Gishwatu Forest in the northwestern region of the country.
Ingabire leads the FDU-Inkingi party, an unregistered coalition of opposition parties against President Paul Kagame, in power since 2000
In a statement, the party said the locals who found it said that Mutuyimana appeared to have died as a result of strangulation.
Placide Kayumba, vice president of the FDU living in exile in Belgium, told CNN that Mutuyimana had been released last summer from a six-year prison term for "political activism".
Mutuyimana had traveled from Kigali to visit his father and sister in the area, but had been killed before returning, Kayumba said.
"The FDU-Inkingi strongly condemns the assassination of Mr. Anselme Mutuyimana and call on the government to conduct a thorough investigation to identify the culprits who must face the law," according to the party statement.
The Rwandan authorities claim to have opened an investigation into the death.
"Investigations continue to establish the cause of his death and no suspects have yet been apprehended," the Rwanda Investigation Bureau told CNN in a statement sent by email.
Opposition politicians in Rwanda have often been imprisoned for what they say are fabricated charges for expressing their opposition to Kagame.
Ingabire was one of more than 2,000 prisoners who received a presidential pardon last September.
She was sentenced to 22 years in prison until she was acquitted of charges of fraud and incitement to insurgency by the Kigali High Court last year. .
The Rwandan prison services claimed to have escaped from the prison, but party officials said they suspected a "criminal act".
Rwisereka's Green Democratic Party had not been able to register to participate in the polls.
CNN's Kara Fox contributed to this report.
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