\nKigali, February 19, 2009 (FH) - The public prosecution announced Thursday that it has appealed the acquittal of Prosecutor, Leonard Hategekimana, who was on trial with former Minister for Justice, Agnes Ntamabyariro, sentenced to life in prison for her role in the 1994 genocide.\n<\/p>\n
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\n"We have already filed our appeal against Ntamabyariro's accomplice, Hategekimana", Spokesperson of the Prosecutor General, Augustin Nkusi, told Hirondelle Agency.\n<\/p>\n
\nHe stressed that there exists sufficient evidence against his former colleague.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe latter, who was prosecutor in 1994, had continued to work in his position after the genocide.\n<\/p>\n
\nImmediately after the judgement on 20 January, the former minister and his lawyer, Gatera Gashabana, who is also the President of Kigali Bar, had announced that they were going to appeal against the sentence.\n<\/p>\n
\nMrs Ntamabyariro was found guilty of various crimes, including incitement to commit genocide, criminal conspiracies and complicity in murders.\n<\/p>\n
\nJudge Roselyne Ninahazwa of the First Instance Court of Nyarugenge in Kigali concluded that the former minister had financed the assassination of the Tutsi Governor of Butare, southern Rwanda, and Jean Baptiste Habyarimana.\n<\/p>\n
\nDismissed by the interim government in mid-April 1994, Jean Baptiste Habyarimana was thrown in prison, then killed after his release from prison.\n<\/p>\n
\nFor the prosecution, Hategekimana, then an officer of the public prosecutor, is an accessory to this assassination for having ordered the prison guards to release the Governor.\n<\/p>\n
\nBut the judge concluded that he had done nothing but carry out Ntamabyariro's instructions which he was unaware of its true intentions.\n<\/p>\n
\nArrested in Zambia in 1997, the former minister is the only member of the interim government to be tried in Rwanda.\n<\/p>\n
\nHer trial began in June 2006.\n<\/p>\n
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