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.
APPEALS COURT CONFIRMS JUDGEMENT ON FORMER MAYOR
Arusha, June 1, 2001 (FH) The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Friday confirmed the judgement and life sentence for genocide on former Rwandan mayor Jean-Paul Akayesu, handed down by the Trial Court in 1998. "The Appeals Chamber has examined all the arguments presented by Akayesu, both separately and together," […]
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