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| |  | | Ildephonse Hategekimana | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda) | | status : | Indicted | | particulars : | Indicted by the ICTR; request for referral to the Rwandan authorities filed by the ICTR-Prosecutor on 11 September 2007; request rejected by the ICTR Trial Chamber on 20 June 2008 | | position : | Commandant, Ngoma Military Camp |
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| | | | Ildephonse Hategekimana was indicted by the Chief Prosecutor of the ICTR on 7 November 2000.
Ildephonse Hategekimana was arrested in Congo Brazzaville on 16 February 2003 and transferred to the ICTR prison quarters in Arusha two days later.
He is to be tried on five counts of indictment, namely:
- genocide (Art. 2 para. 3 let. a ICTR Statute), or, in the alternative, complicity in genocide (Art. 2 para. 3 let. e ICTR Statute), direct and public incitement to commit genocide (Art. 2 para. 3 let .c ICTR Statute);
- crimes against humanity: rape (Art. 3 let. g ICTR Statute) and other inhumane acts
(Art.3 let. i ICTR Statute).
On 28 February 2003, during his initial appearance before the third trial chamber of the ICTR, he pleaded not guilty to each of the charges laid against him.
The opening date of his trial has not yet been fixed.
On 11 September 2007, the ICTR-Prosecutor filed a request to refer the cases of Hategekimana, Yussuf Munyakazi and Gaspard Kanyarukiga (see 'related cases') for trial before the Rwandan judiciary.
According to the ICTR-Rules of Procedure, the President of the Court now has to designate a referral bench consisting of three judges for each of the three requests. The Bench will then decide on the referral after having heard the arguments of Prosecution and Defence.
On 20 June 2008, the Referral Bench rejected the request by the prosecutor and refused to refer the case to the Rwandan judiciary due to fears that he would not receive a fair trial there.
All of the accused are opposed to the transfer of their files to the Rwandan judiciary, despite the fact that the death penalty, which constituted the main obstacle to referrals from the ICTR, was abolished in July 2007. | |    | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | last time seen : | | | Arusha (Tanzania) | | | period of charges : | | | 01.04.1994 - 31.06.1994 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 22.06.2008 |
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