In 2007, Zirimwabagabo, 54, had been sentenced in absentia by a gacaca court to 30 years in jail for crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity, notably for killings of Tutsis in Remera, one of Kigali's neighborhoods.
According to Radio Rwanda, Zirimwabagabo had been living for 17 years in Shyorongi, 20 kilometers from Kigali, where he was working in a mine.
He will be granted a new trial as he was sentenced in abstentia in the first place.
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