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Amnesty International Friday urged governments worldwide not to transfer genocide suspects to Rwanda until fair trials there can be guaranteed. The human rights group is concerned about the Rwandan justice system's fairness and impartiality with respect to...

Rwandan genocide suspect Dominique Ntawukuriryayo has been arrested in France, a UN spokesperson said Thursday. Ntawukuriryayo, a former public official, had been on the run from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) , where he...

Approximately 40 inmates in a Tanzania prison awaiting trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) began a hunger strike Monday to protest the planned transfer of three ICTR cases to the national courts of Rwanda....

German police have arrested Augustin Ngirabatware, a former Rwandan minister suspected of genocide in the 1994 Rwanda conflict between Hutus and Tutsis, German officials announced Thursday. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) accuses Ngirabatware...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Friday revoked a previous order transferring the case against 1994 Rwandan genocide suspect Michel Bagaragaza to a local court in the Netherlands. In addition...

Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama said Thursday that Rwanda has signed extradition treaties with countries in Africa, Europe, and North America following its abolition of the death penalty in July. The law ending the death penalty, which...

A French court of appeals Wednesday released two men accused of involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide , finding that the warrants issued for their arrest by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) could not...

French authorities arrested five suspects accused of involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide Friday, including Rwandan Catholic priest Wenceslas Munyeshyaka and former civil servant Laurent Bucyibaruta, who may be extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal...

A former Rwandan mayor Friday pleaded guilty to a single count of extermination , a crime against humanity, as part of a plea deal International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda that eliminated eight other charges including genocide,...

The Rwandan senate has approved a bill to abolish the death penalty , according to Wednesday reports by Radio Rwanda. The bill, proposed last year by Rwandan President Paul Kagame with the support...