"He was arrested Friday morning. He is currently in police custody at the Department for criminal investigations", police spokesman Eric Kayiranga told Hirondelle News Agency on the phone.
" He will be handed to the prosecution department within the legal time limits", he added. He also underlined that Peter Erlinder was charged with "negation of the Tutsi genocide".
Erlinder is President of the ICTR Defence lawyers association in Arusha. He is currently defending former major Aloys Ntabakuze, who has been sentenced by the ICTR to life in jail in first instance and is now awaiting his appeal trial.
The American lawyer had been in Kigali for a week to be part of Victoire Ingabire's defence team. An opponent to Paul Kagame's regime, she is charged for negation of the genocide, collaboration to a terrorist organization and spreading ethnic division.
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