{{The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has met the deadline of 31 December 2014 set by the UN for the end of judicial activities, Spokesman of the Tribunal has said.}}
To help meet this deadline, the Security Council created the International Criminal Tribunals Mechanism (MTPI), a structure that has been transferred in early July a number of functions of the ICTR.
“According to the current evaluation of the president (of the court), all judicial activities of the ICTR will be completed as agreed on or about December 31, 2014,” said Roland Amoussouga, spokesman of the institution.
“Currently, according to the president, there are two main judicial tasks still to be accomplished, namely, completing the last case pending at first instance, and secondly, empty deliberate judgments that are pending “said the spokesman.
The only trial still in the first instance is that of the former Planning Minister Augustin Ngirabatware.
According to the forecasts of the court, the judgment is expected by the end of the year.
Seven cases involving 17 older people in total are currently under appeal. Four of these trials are collective while others are single-accused
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