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| |  | | Aloys Simba | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment on 13 December 2005 for genocide and crime against humanity; sentence confirmed by the Appeals Chamber on 27 November 2007; transferred to Cotonou, Benin, to serve the rest of his sentence on 27 June 2009. | | position : | Civil Defence Councillor for the Gikongoro and Butare Prefectures |
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| | | | Aloys Simba was arrested in Senegal on 27 November 2001. On 9 March 2002, Simba was handed over to the authorities of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) who served him with his bill of indictment. On 11 March 2002, he was transferred to Arusha, the seat of the ICTR.
His initial court appearance took place on 18 March 2002 at which Simba pleaded not guilty to all of the counts on which he was charged.
Aloys Simba was indicted on the basis of his individual criminal responsibility as hierarchical superior (Art 6 § 3 ICTR Statute) for:
_ one count of genocide by murder, for causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the Tutsi population with intent to destroy in whole or in part a racial or ethnic group;
_ one count of complicity in genocide;
_ one count of extermination as a crime against humanity concerning mass killing events which took place as part of a widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population on political, ethnic or racial grounds;
_ one count of murder as a crime against humanity for committing or by forcing others to commit murder as part of a widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population on political, ethnic or racial grounds.
The trial took place between 30 August 2004 and 8 July 2005.
On 13 December 2005, Aloys Simba was found guilty of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity, but acquitted of the crime of complicity in genocide and the crime of murder as a crime against humanity.
He was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the First Trial Chamber.
Simba appealed this judgement, arguing there were errors of fact and procedure, and that some witnesses lacked conviction.
On 27 November 2007, the Appeals Chamber of the ICTR dismissed his appeals and upheld his 25-year prison sentence.
Following a decision signed on 18 May 2009 by the President of the ICTR, Sir Dennis Byron, Aloys Simba was transferred to Cotonou, Benin, on 27 June 2009 to serve out the rest of his sentence.
He is due to be released on 19 March 2028. | |     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 : | | | Rwanda | | | date of birth : | | | 28.12.1938 | | | last time seen : | | | Arusha (Tanzania) | | | period of charges : | | | 03.1994 - 07.1994 | | | judgement period : | | | 30.08.2004 - 27.11.2007 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 28.02.2010 |
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