{"id":24435,"date":"2012-05-24T16:58:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/24435-240512-rwandajustice-mugesera-still-not-ready-for-his-trial.html"},"modified":"2012-05-24T16:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:58:22","slug":"240512-rwandajustice-mugesera-still-not-ready-for-his-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/24435-240512-rwandajustice-mugesera-still-not-ready-for-his-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"24.05.12- RWANDA\/JUSTICE - MUGESERA \u201cSTILL NOT READY\u201d FOR HIS TRIAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arusha, May 24, 2012 (FH) -Rwandan academic L\u00e9on Mugesera declared on Thursday to a Rwandan tribunal that he was \u201cstill not ready\u201d for his trial, arguing he only received the prosecution file on May 18.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>L\u00e9on Mugesera was extradited from Canada in January this year after a legal battle lasting more than 15 years. He is accused of inciting genocide in a 1992 speech delivered in Kinyarwanda, during a meeting of his political party in northern Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMugesera told the tribunal that he only received a copy of the prosecution file on May 18 and didn\u2019t get enough time to get ready\u201d, his Rwandan lawyer Donat Mutunzi told Hirondelle News Agency on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u201cjudges found that he had enough time and the proceedings should start. Mugesera said he appealed the decision, and that was the end of the hearing\u201d, Mutunzi added.<\/p>\n<p>Mugesera\u2019s trial was due to start on February 2, 2012, but the accused had asked for additional time to make sure his defence team would be complete. He was also requesting that the official language for the trial would be French and not Kinyarwanda, arguing that he had just spent 20 years in a non-rwandophone speaking country and that there were some judicial terms he was not familiar with in Kinyarwanda. This request was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ER\/GF<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arusha, May 24, 2012 (FH) -Rwandan academic L\u00e9on Mugesera declared on Thursday to a Rwandan tribunal that he was \u201cstill not ready\u201d for his trial, arguing he only received the prosecution file on May 18.<\/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-24435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hirondellenews"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>24.05.12- RWANDA\/JUSTICE - MUGESERA \u201cSTILL NOT READY\u201d FOR HIS TRIAL - JusticeInfo.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/24435-240512-rwandajustice-mugesera-still-not-ready-for-his-trial.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"24.05.12- RWANDA\/JUSTICE - 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