{"id":44655,"date":"2021-10-20T19:13:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/prosecution-appeals-against-ruling-of-rusesabagina-and-co-accused\/"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T13:38:09","slug":"prosecution-appeals-against-ruling-of-rusesabagina-and-co-accused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/prosecution-appeals-against-ruling-of-rusesabagina-and-co-accused\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecution appeals against ruling of Rusesabagina and co-accused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The court handed 25-year sentence to Rusesabagina and 20-year jail term to Callixte Nsabimana alias Sankara, the former spokesperson for the terror group after they were found guilty of terrorism charges.<\/p>\n<p>The terror group which they headed plotted different attacks to Rwanda in 2018, which claimed lives of nine innocent residents in the Southern Province. They left many others gravely injured, and caused significant material and economic damage in South-West Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Faustin Nkusi, the Spokesperson of NPPA has told IGIHE that they have appealed against the court\u2019s judgment.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have appealed against the entire process of the court case.  Further details will be revealed in court,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>As the court read the ruling last month, Rusesabagina, 67, was convicted for membership of terrorist group and complicity in terrorism acts. <\/p>\n<p>He was however acquitted of the crime of forming an irregular armed group.  <\/p>\n<p>Callixte Nsabimana a.k Sankara was sentenced to 20 years for being part of a terrorist group and denying the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.  <\/p>\n<p>Other MRCD-FLN combatants accused along with Rusesabagina and Sankara were handed different punishments from three to 20-year jail term.  <\/p>\n<p>Following the ruling, people whose relatives lost lives during attacks plotted by the terror group said that they were unsatisfied with the ruling.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39838 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rus_1.jpg\" alt=\"Rusesabagina was handed 25-year sentence. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39839 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rus_2.jpg\" alt=\"Other MRCD-FLN combatants accused along with Rusesabagina and Sankara were handed sentences ranging from three to 20-year jail term.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Public Prosecution Authority (NPPA) has filed an appeal against the judgement of the High Court Chamber for International Crimes of 20th September 2021, in the case of former President of MRCD-FLN terror group, Paul Rusesabagina and 20 co-accused individuals convicted of terrorism crimes.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/44655","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44655"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44655"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}