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.
PROSECUTION UNABLE TO PRODUCE WITNESS LIST
Arusha, May 2, 2001 (FH) Prosecution in the so-called Media Trial on Wednesday proved unable to produce a final witness list in the case before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The trial groups three suspects linked to media which incited Hutus to kill Tutsis during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
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