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Additional charges sought against “hate media journalist”

    NAIROBI

    The prosecution on Monday sought leave of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to add four new counts to the genocide indictment against the former editor of the ‘Kangura’ newspaper, Hassan Ngeze, the Hirondelle news agency reported. The prosecution was also working on a “joinder motion” in the cases against Ngeze and fellow media detainees: Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, founder of the “hate radio” Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM); and Ferdinand Nahimana, a former director of RTLM. The defence was due to respond on Tuesday.

    The prosecution also requested that Judge Nevanethem Pillay of South Africa authorise measures for the protection of witness identities in the Ngeze case. Speaking for the prosecution, William Egbe of Ghana said this was necessary because of the security situation in the northwestern prefectures of Gisenyi and Ruhengeri from which it planned to bring most of the witnesses.

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