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ICTR rejects defendant’s request to change lawyers

    NAIROBI

    The president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Judge Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday confirmed the court’s decision to refuse a request by genocide suspect, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, to change his defence counsel. According to an ICTR press release, she said a change of counsel would delay the 15 February hearing of the Prosecution’s application for a review of the Appeal Chamber’s decision to drop charges against Barayagwiza on technical grounds. Rwanda has temporarily suspended cooperation with the ICTR in protest at the decision.

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