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Rwanda rights advocate who probed rape claim against judge sentenced for genocide role

May 28, 2007 11:11:00 AM

Francois-Xavier Byuma, vice-president of the board of the Rwandan League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LIPRODHOR) and president of the Rwandan Association for the Protection and Promotion of the Child, was sentenced...

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Rwanda genocide appeal ruling [ICTR]

May 21, 2007 03:23:00 PM

Mikaeli Muhimana v. The Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, May 21, 2007 . Read the full...

May 21, 2007 12:28:00 PM

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Monday upheld the life sentence of serial rapist Mikaeli "Mika" Muhimana . Muhimana, formerly a councilor for the western Rwandan province of Kibuyea, was...

May 17, 2007 01:21:00 PM

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour Thursday denounced the poor conditions of prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during a visit there, deploring in particular overcrowding and inadequate access to...

May 16, 2007 01:46:00 PM

A senior official in a Rwanda human rights organization was arrested Wednesday in the capital of Kigali after being implicated by a local gacaca court in the 1994 genocide. The official, Francois-Xavier Byuma, is...

April 23, 2007 02:38:00 PM

Bernard Ntuyahaga , a former Rwandan army major, denied at trial Monday any involvement in the 1994 murder of 10 Belgian peacekeepers and the Rwandan prime minister they were charged with protecting. Ntuyahaga said he was being used...

April 19, 2007 03:12:00 PM

The European Union Thursday approved a framework decision aimed at criminalizing denial of the Holocaust and other genocides following six years of intense debate. The end product was described as a carefully-balanced compromise by...

April 19, 2007 12:21:00 PM

The trial of Bernard Ntuyahaga , a former Rwandan army major accused of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers and the Rwandan prime minister they were charged with protecting in 1994, began in Brussels Thursday. Ntuyahaga faces 16 counts of...

April 19, 2007 06:31:00 AM

Rwanda petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Wednesday to resolve a dispute with France over an international arrest warrant issued by France for three Rwandan officials last November, and a request forwarded to the...

April 13, 2007 11:42:00 AM

A Quebec Superior Court judge Thursday postponed the war crimes trial of Desiré Munyaneza after he was severely beaten in his cell by another prisoner Wednesday night. The former Rwandan militia commander is charged...

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