JUDGMENT IN THE MEDIA CASE CONFIRMED FOR DECEMBER 3

Arusha, November 21, 2003 (FH) – The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) will pass judgment in the media case on December 3, an official source declared on Friday. The media case tries jointly three former media personalities.

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They are the two former founding members of the Radio-télévision libre des mille collines (RTLM), Ferdinand Nahimana and Jean Bosco Barayagwiza; and former owner and editor of the Hutu extremist newspaper “Kangura“, Hassan Ngeze. The three are charged with incitement to commit genocide. The prosecutor says that both media organs had the same aim: the promotion of the extremist Hutu ideology and the incitement to hate and commit violence with against Tutsis, and the prosecutor wants the maximum life imprisonment for all. The “media trial” is considered as one of the most important in the history of the tribunal. CE/ER/FH (RG1121'e)