Ntamabyariro was arrested on 27th May 1997 as she returned to Rwanda along with other refugees. <\/p>\n
Ntamabyariro trial began in 2007 following the transfer of her files to Nyarugenge High Court in November 2001. <\/p>\n
The court handed her a life sentence on 19th January 2009 convicted of genocide crimes mobilizing Hutus to kill Tutsi, making a list of targeted Tutsi to be killed. <\/p>\n
Ntamabyariro appealed against the sentence at the High Court where she was tried from December 2012 and sentenced on 27th February 2015.<\/p>\n
Accompanied by her defense lawyer Gatera Gashabana, Ntamabyariro appeared in the Court of Appeal in Kigali on Thursday appealing for reduced sentence claiming there were facts disregarded during her previous trial. <\/p>\n
The court analyzed her claims including violation of laws and human rights during her arrest and the pre-trial detention period. <\/p>\n
Ntamabyariro said the fact that her trial was delayed from the time she was arrested in 1997 to appear in court in 2001 is an evidence of violation of laws which the court should consider to reduce her sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Agn\u00e8s Ntamabyariro Rutagwera, 82, former Justice Minister before and during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi has again appeared in court appealing against the life sentence handed to her by the High Court in 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39058"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39058"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}