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 |  |  |  | Jean Mpambara |  | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda)  | | status : | Acquitted | | particulars : | Found not guilty by the ICTR on September 12, 2006 | | position : | Mayor of Rukara | |
|  | |  | Jean Mpambara was arrested on 21 June 2001 in a refugee camp in Tanzania. On the 23 June 2001, he was transferred to the prison quarters of the ICTR in Arusha.
On 23 July 2001, he was charged with one sole count of indictment for genocide (Art. 2 § 3 lit. a ICTR Statute).
On 8 August 2001, at his first court appearance before the First Trial Chamber of the ICTR, he pleaded not guilty.
The indictment was amended in November 2004, to include one count of complicity in genocide (Art. 2 § 3 lit. e ICTR Statute) and one count of extermination, as a crime against humanity (Art. 3 lit. b ICTR Statute).
The trial opened on September 19, 2005.
On September 12, 2006, the ICTR First Trial Chamber declared Jean Mpambara not guilty of the charge of genocide. He left Arusha for Mayotte, an French island in the Indian Ocean, where his familiy lives. |  | |  |  |  | | last time seen : | | | Arusha (Tanzania) |  | | period of charges : | | | 01.04.1994 - 31.04.1994 |  | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity Genocide |  | | profile last modified : | | | 05.04.2008 |
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