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.
UN TRIBUNAL CONFIRMS INVESTIGATOR'S ARREST
Arusha, May 20, 2001 (FH) Official sources at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Sunday confirmed the arrest of one of the Tribunal's own defence investigators on suspicion of involvement in the 1994 genocide. "I can confirm that there was an arrest, that it was a defence investigator using the name Sami Bahati […]
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