\nArusha, February 7, 2001(FH) The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has assigned a new lawyer to genocide suspect Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, who has been boycotting his trial and ordered his lawyers to do the same. The new lawyer is Giacomo Barletta Caldarera of Italy.\n<\/p>\n
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\nCaldarera already has experience of the ICTR, serving briefly as defence counsel for another Tribunal genocide suspect. Caldarera was assigned Tuesday, immediately after a court decision allowing Barayagwiza\u2019s previous defence team to withdraw from the case after their client terminated their mandate. The lawyers, Carmelle Marchessault of Canada and David Danielson of the US, had earlier told the court they would be breaking the rules of their Bar Associations if they went against their client\u2019s instructions and represented him in court. The court ordered the ICTR Registry to assign Barayagwiza another lawyer immediately in the interests of justice and of ensuring a fair trial. Baraygwiza has been boycotting the trial since it started on October 23rd, saying that the ICTR is manipulated by the \u201cdictatorial anti-Hutu regime in Kigali\u201d and that the trial is a \u201cmockery of justice\u201d. In a \u201cpress release\u201d on Monday, Baraygwiza said that: \u201cNo other Counsel is entitled to represent me at this parody of justice under any pretext. I thus denounce the idea of assigning the so-called Counsel \u2018in the interests of justice\u2019 since there is no justice in this Tribunal. \u201dAn ICTR source said one of the criteria for assigning Caldarera was that he has long experience of criminal law systems, including working briefly as lawyer for former Rwandan mayor Jean-Paul Akayesu. Akayesu\u2019s case is now before the ICTR Appeals Chamber, after the Trial Chambersentenced him to life imprisonment for genocide. In November 1999, the ICTR Appeals Court ordered Barayagwiza\u2019s release on the grounds that his rights were continually violated during initial detention and transfer to Arusha, but the Court reversed its decision after the Rwandan government suspended its cooperation with the Tribunal and the Prosecutor presented \u201cnew facts\u201d. Barayagwiza\u2019s ex-defence team say they conducted investigations in Cameroon, where the accused was initially detained, and that the Prosecutor\u2019s \u201cnew facts\u201d were based on false documents. Barayagwiza was director of political affairs in the foreign ministry of the former Rwandan government, founder of the hardline pro-Hutu CDR party and a founder member of Radio T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM) which allegedly incited Hutus to kill Tutsis during the 1994 genocide. He is being tried with two other suspects linked to so-called hate media in Rwanda: Ferdinand Nahimana, ex-director of RTLM, and Hassan Ngeze, former editor of the newspaper Kangura. JC\/FH (ME_0207f)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arusha, February 7, 2001(FH) The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has assigned a new lawyer to genocide suspect Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, who has been boycotting his trial and ordered his lawyers to do the same. The new lawyer is Giacomo Barletta Caldarera of Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-16101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hirondellenews"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n