Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal News Blogs -> JURIST - The Paper Chase

Legal News

: JURIST - The Paper Chase

ICTR begins contempt trial of former defense investigator

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] Former Rwandan defense investigator Léonidas Nshogoza went on trial Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Nshogoza was arrested in June 2007 for allegedly bribing witnesses, fabricating evidence, and "interfering with the administration of justice" in the 2004 ICTR genocide trial of Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda. Last February, he pleaded not guilty to two counts of contempt and two counts of attempt to commit acts punishable as contempt of the Tribunal. Last year, a trial witness known only as "GAA" was sentenced to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of giving false testimony. Kamuhanda is currently serving two life sentences for genocide and extermination. The ICTR was established to try genocide suspects for crimes occurring during the 1994 Rwandan conflict between Hutus and Tutsis in which approximately 800,000 people, primarily Tutsis, died.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).