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Genocide suspect says rights violated

    NAIROBI

    Lawyers for genocide suspect Jerome Bicamumpaka on Tuesday called on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to order their client’s immediate release on the grounds that his rights were violated following his 1996 arrest, the Hirondelle news agency reported. Bicamumpaka “remained ignorant of the charges against him” for some 100 days following his arrest in Cameroon, Hirondelle quoted defence lawyer Francine Veilleux as telling the Court. She said Bicamumpaka, who was Rwanda’s minister of foreign affairs during the 1994 genocide, was “abandoned” in Cameroon until 31 July 1999, before his transfer to the ICTR detention facilities in the Tanzanian town of Arusha. The prosecution replied that the accused was misinterpreting the rights accorded to him by ICTR’s regulations, Hirondelle added.

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