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ICTR approves joint trial for media genocide suspects

    NAIROBI

    The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday agreed that prosecutors may hold a joint trial for two journalist genocide suspects, the independent Hirondelle news agency reported. The suspects, former director of the extremist Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), Ferdinand Nahimana, and Hassan Ngeze, former editor of the extremist newspaper 'Kangura', had pleaded not guilty in November 1998 to
    amended counts, it added.

    Initially, Nahimana and Ngeze were to be tried with two others: Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, another founder of RTLM radio, who was released last month by the ICTR Appeals Court on technical legal grounds, and an Italo-Belgian RTLM presenter, Georges Ruggiu, Hirondelle reported.

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