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Rwanda released 8,000 prisoners implicated in the country's 1994 genocide Monday in an effort to combat prison overcrowding and promote reconciliation. Human Rights Watch (HRW) and genocide survivors' group Ibuka...

A law is currently being drafted in the Rwandan Parliament that would limit families to having three children in order to curb increasing poverty levels , an official said Wednesday. Although the law as drafted does...

Rwanda plans to release 8,000 prisoners implicated in the country's 1994 genocide , despite warnings from human rights groups that their liberation could produce violence against genocide survivors. Chief prosecutor Martin Ngoga told...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Monday urged Rwandan judges and police to investigate and stop attacks on individuals administering or testifying in local tribunals known as Gacaca courts to bring those allegedly...

The Rwandan cabinet has agreed to abolish capital punishment, the country's justice minister said Friday, clearing the way for the extradition of defendants facing trial for the 1994 Rwandan genocide , during which over 800,000 people were killed....

The war crimes trial of former Rwandan colonel and prefect of Rwanda's capital city Tharcisse Renzaho began Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Renzaho faces charges...

Joseph Nzabirinda , a Rwandan businessman charged in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide, pleaded guilty to murder as a crime against humanity Thursday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda . Nzabirinda was...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Wednesday convicted a Roman Catholic priest for committing genocide and extermination during the mass killings of Tutsis and moderate Hutus that swept the central...

Outgoing UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for greater efforts to protect human rights worldwide in a speech marking International Human Rights Day . Annan on Friday acknowledged that the UN has often...

Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 2003 for crimes relating to the Rwandan genocide, was released from prison Wednesday after serving his sentence, becoming the first person freed after...