Hirondelle News
18 years of archives, 11'000 reports on justice in Rwanda
The Hirondelle News Agency, based in Arusha, Tanzania, reported on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 1997 and the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2010. In June 2015, Hirondelle News handed over to JusticeInfo.net. The agency had more than 1,700 subscribers, including international and local media organizations especially in Rwanda and Tanzania, news agencies, universities, NGOs and individuals. Hirondelle News produced close to 11,000 dispatches, thus constituting one of the most important archives for these institutions, in four languages: English, French, Kiswahili and Kinyarwanda.
DEFENCE PROTESTS METHOD OF IDENTIFYING SUSPECT
Arusha, September 12, 2001 (FH) A lawyer for former Rwandan minister and genocide suspect Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda on Wednesday protested the way a prosecution witness was asked to identify the accused. "Given that the defence is composed entirely of women, and that Kamuhanda is the only man sitting on the defence side of the […]
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