Appeals Court to visit Arusha tribunal

The Appeals Court was due to visit the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha on Monday, news oganisations reported. According to the Internews service, the team of five judges will hear a series of cases that could have "an explosive impact at the court". It said they
would hear the appeals of genocide suspects Omar Serushago and Laurent Semanza to have their sentences reduced, as well as a motion filed by the chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte in the Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza case against whom charges were dropped on procedural grounds. The Rwandan government is also expected to address the court and ask that if released, Barayagwiza should be freed in Tanzania or returned to Rwanda.