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| |  | | Georges Ruggiu | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by the ICTR on 1st June 2000; transferred to Italy in February 2008 where he will serve the remainder of his sentence | | position : | Journalist |
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| | | | Georges Henri Yvon Joseph Ruggiu was born in Verviers, Belgium, on 12 October 1957. During the events in question, he was a journalist and producer with the “Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines S.A. (RTLM) and worked in Kigali. Founded in 1993, the RTLM broadcast the ideology and the objectives of extremist Hutus throughout Rwanda until the end of July 1994.
Georges Ruggiu worked for the RTLM between January and July 1994.
From its studios, he broadcast programmes which:
a) constituted incitement to commit murder or serious attacks against the physical or mental well-being of the Tutsis.
b) constituted acts of persecution against Tutsis, as well as certain Hutus and Belgian citizens.
On 23 July 1997, at the request of the Prosecutor of the ICTR, Georges Ruggiu was arrested in Mombassa, Kenya. He was subsequently transferred to the detention centre in Arusha, Tanzania. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Belgium | | | date of birth : | | | 12.10.1957 | | | last time seen : | | | Italy | | | period of charges : | | | 01.01.1994 - 31.07.1994 | | | judgement period : | | | 09.10.1997 - 01.06.2000 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 15.02.2008 |
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