{"id":24749,"date":"2013-05-30T19:02:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/24749-300513-rwandauk-five-rwandan-genocide-suspects-arrested-in-uk.html"},"modified":"2013-05-30T19:02:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T17:02:27","slug":"300513-rwandauk-five-rwandan-genocide-suspects-arrested-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/24749-300513-rwandauk-five-rwandan-genocide-suspects-arrested-in-uk.html","title":{"rendered":"30.05.13 - RWANDA\/UK \u2013 FIVE RWANDAN GENOCIDE SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arusha, May 30, 2013 (FH) \u2013 Five Rwandans have been arrested in the UK on suspicion of participation in the 1994 genocide, according to a statement from the Rwandan Prosecutor\u2019s office and concurring reports in the British media, including the BBC and The Independent newspaper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They were arrested following an extradition request from Rwandan prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Rwandan communiqu\u00e9, those arrested include three former mayors in southern Rwanda, Emmanuel Nteziryayo, Charles Munyaneza and C\u00e9lestin Ugirashebuja. The fourth is a doctor and former official at the population office, Vincent Bajinya, while the fifth is C\u00e9lestin Mutabaruka, who was head of an agricultural project in Gikongoro, southern Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>The three former mayors were arrested in 2006 but then set free. The High Court in London blocked their extradition, saying there was a \u201creal risk\u201d they would not get a fair trial in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights organizations Redress and African Rights then called on the UK to amend its laws so as to be able to judge them in national courts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome these arrests,\u201d the communiqu\u00e9 quotes Rwandan Attorney General Martin Ngoga as saying. He stressed that Rwanda had demanded their extradition so that they could be tried before Rwandan courts for \u201cthe genocide against Tutsis and crimes against humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC quotes Ngoga as saying that Rwanda has made \"significant progress\" on addressing concerns about fair trials since the 2009 High Court ruling<\/p>\n<p>Up to now Norway is the only European country to have extradited to Rwanda a suspect wanted in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>ER\/JC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arusha, May 30, 2013 (FH) \u2013 Five Rwandans have been arrested in the UK on suspicion of participation in the 1994 genocide, according to a statement from the Rwandan Prosecutor\u2019s office and concurring reports in the British media, including the BBC and The Independent newspaper.\u00a0<\/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-24749","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) - 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