{"id":22526,"date":"2010-05-28T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/22526-en-en-280510-rwandausa-american-lawyer-peter-erlinder-arrested-in-kigali1333313333.html"},"modified":"2010-05-28T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T00:00:00","slug":"en-en-280510-rwandausa-american-lawyer-peter-erlinder-arrested-in-kigali1333313333","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/22526-en-en-280510-rwandausa-american-lawyer-peter-erlinder-arrested-in-kigali1333313333.html","title":{"rendered":"28.05.10 - RWANDA\/USA - AMERICAN LAWYER PETER ERLINDER ARRESTED IN KIGALI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >\nArusha, May 28, 2010 (FH) - Professor Peter Erlinder, the American lawyer to opposition politician Victoire Ingabire, was arrested Friday morning after a week in Rwanda over accusations related to negation of the 1994 genocide.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p >\n<p >\n&quot;He was arrested Friday morning. He is currently in police custody at the Department for criminal investigations&quot;, police spokesman Eric Kayiranga told Hirondelle News Agency on the phone.\n<\/p>\n<p >\n&quot; He will be handed to the prosecution department within the legal time limits&quot;, he added. He also underlined that Peter Erlinder was charged with &quot;negation of the Tutsi genocide&quot;.\n<\/p>\n<p >\nErlinder 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.\n<\/p>\n<p >\nThe American lawyer had been in Kigali for a week to be part of Victoire Ingabire's defence team. 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