{{The trial of Leon Mugesera has been slated to start on September 17, after months of procastination. <\/p>\n
Mugesera was extradited from Canada in January 2012 after a legal battle lasting more than 15 years.}} <\/p>\n
The former lecturer is accused of inciting genocide in a 1992 speech delivered in Kinyarwanda, during a meeting of his political party in northern Rwanda. Mugesera was in 1992 one of the vice-presidents of the then ruling MRND party.<\/p>\n
His trial was due to start on February 2, 2012, but Mugesera had asked for additional time to make sure his defence team would be complete. <\/p>\n
Mugesera was also requesting that the official language for the trial would be French and not Kinyarwanda. <\/p>\n
At last, he had argued that one of his lawyers had given up on his case while keeping the files.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe opening of the trial has been set up for September 17, before a special chamber of the High Court of Kigali\u201d, Rwandan courts\u2019 spokesperson Charles Kaliwabo said.<\/p>\n
The High Court was created in February 2012 to try cases referred by the International criminal court for Rwanda (ICTR) and other foreign countries.<\/p>\n
Mugesera\u2019s defence lawyer Felix Rudakemwa said that they would be ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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