Judge frees Rwandan, overturns genocide conviction

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) - A United Nations court has overturned a 20-year sentence faced by the former Rwandan president's brother-in-law for organizing a massacre during the country's 1994 genocide.

By: Associated Press | WNCT-On Your Side
Published: November 16, 2009

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ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) - A United Nations court has overturned a 20-year sentence faced by the former Rwandan president's brother-in-law for organizing a massacre during the country's 1994 genocide.
Judge Theodor Meron on Monday ordered the immediate release of Protais Zigiranyirazo, an influential member of the Rwandan government during the genocide and relative of former President Juvenal Habyarimana.
In 2008, Zigiranyirazo was convicted of organizing a massacre in which hundreds of Tutsis died.
Zigiranyirazo, 71, stood in disbelief in the courtroom on Monday.
The judge said the Trial Chamber committed serious errors in the 2008 conviction and sentencing.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has convicted 39 people and acquitted seven.

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