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Suspect pleads not guilty to new charges

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    The former director of Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), Ferdinand Nahimana, on Thursday pleaded not guilty to three new counts of genocide and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania. An ICTR press release said Nahimana had pleaded not guilty to the four counts in his previous indictment, which was amended on 5 November. Meanwhile, ICTR judges on Thursday heard a motion by the prosecution for joining Nahimana’s trial with that of another media-related genocide suspect, Hassan Ngeze, former editor of Kangura newspaper. Newly-appointed chief ICTR prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte, who was on her first visit to the Arusha court this week, presented argument in support of the joinder motion, the statement said.

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