“Urgent need” for prison facilities

Meanwhile, the availability of prison facilities for people convicted by the ICTR remained “a serious concern,” the annual report said. Mali and Belgium had offered to provide prison facilities for the enforcement of Tribunal sentences, while Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark had made offers “with conditions”, the report said. Benin and Madagascar had also indicated their willingness to provide their prison facilities, and discussions with other states were continuing, it said. But as the Tribunal’s work progressed, there was an “urgent need” for further international cooperation for the imprisonment of genocide convicts, it added.