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| |  | | Georges Anderson Nderubumwe Rutaganda | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to life imprisonment on 6 December 1999; judgment confirmed by the Appeals Chamber on 26 May 2003; transferred to Cotonou, Benin, to serve the rest of his sentence on 27 June 2009 | | position : | Second vice-president of the national committee of Interahamwe, the youth organisation of MRND |
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| | | | Following his arrest on 10 October 1995, Georges Rutaganda was indicted and transferred to Arusha on 26 May 1996. The indictment presented by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on 13 February 1996 contained 8 counts, including genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
On 6 December 1999, the Trial Chamber of the ICTR found Georges Rutaganda guilty on 3 counts: count 1 (genocide), count 2 (crime against humanity: extermination) and count 7 (crime against humanity: murder). He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The defendant and the Prosecutor both appealed against this judgement on 5 and 6 January 2000 respectively. The Appeal Chamber's decision was handed down on 26 May 2003.
The Chamber confirmed the convictions regarding counts 1 and 2, but acquitted the defendant of count 7 due to the lack of coherence in statements from various witnesses. Further, the Appeal Chamber found Rutaganda guilty on two new counts of wilful killing in violation of the common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. This was the first time a defendant before the ICTR was convicted of war crimes.
The Appeal Chamber considered that the revised verdict with respect to both the acquittal and the two new counts did not affect the validity of the facts on which the Trial Chamber had based Rutaganda’s lifelong prison sentence. The sentence was therefore confirmed.
On 27 June 2009, Georges Rutaganda was transferred to Cotonou, Benin, to serve the rest of his sentence . | |     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 : | | | 28.11.1958 | | | last time seen : | | | Benin | | | period of charges : | | | 01.04.1994 - 31.04.1994 | | | judgement period : | | | 13.02.1996 - 26.05.2003 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 30.11.2009 |
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