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Prosecutors and judicial defenders sworn-in

    NAIROBI

    Four prosecutors and 22 deputy prosecutors were sworn-in on Tuesday in Kigali in a bid to speed up trial proceedings in the judicial sector, Rwanda News Agency (RNA) reported. The prosecutors were from Byumba, Cyangugu, Gikongoro and Ruhengeri prefectures while the deputies included 14 in the Court of Appeal and eight in the Court of First Instance, it stated. Seventy-one graduates of a training programme for judicial
    defenders were also sworn in on Tuesday at the Kigali Court of First Instance. In a press release received by IRIN, the Danish Centre for Human Rights, which ran the project in collaboration with the government, said: "Rwanda's combined corps of lawyers and judicial defenders is now augmented by more than 100 per cent, representing a significant increase in Rwanda's capacity to provide much-needed legal advice and representation, especially in the context of the genocide trials."

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