Search Results for: 1994-10-20

Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court on Tuesday effectively suspended the work of the 100-member panel responsible for drafting the country's new constitution after ruling in favor of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the formation of the panel. The lawsuit...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) convicted former Rwandan mayor Gregoire Ndahimana of genocide and crimes against humanity on Thursday and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. Ndahimana was charged...

A Dutch appeals court on Thursday sentenced Joseph Mpambara to life in prison for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Mpambara, a former member of extremist Hutu militia Interahamwe...

The Rwandan high court ruled Friday that opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza will remain jailed for the duration of her trial on charges of forming a terrorist organization. Judge Johnstone Busingyi indicated that his...

The Administrative Tribunal of Versailles on Tuesday cancelled an order refusing a residency permit to Agathe Habyarimana, widow of assasinated Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana , ordering that her application be reconsidered. The reconsideration gives...

Rwandan Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga said Wednesday that US lawyer and JURIST Forum contributor Peter Erlinder will be summoned to face charges of genocide denial in Rwanda. Erlinder, a defense lawyer at the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law says that despite the recent District Court decisions enjoining the Department of Defense from enforcing or applying "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," there remains a significant body of law allowing...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday began the trial of former Kivumu, Rwanda, mayor Gregoire Ndahimana . Ndahimana was charged in July 2001...

The widow of assassinated Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana , Agathe Habyarimana, was arrested Tuesday in France on suspicions of complicity in genocide and was later released on bail. French police complied with an international arrest warrant issued by...

The Rwandan government released a report Monday concluding that the 1994 assassination of then-president Juvenal Habyarimana was the work of Hutu extremists. An independent committee of experts found that Hutu extremists, including members...