{"id":54686,"date":"2025-06-27T13:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/norway-to-extradite-genocide-suspect-francois-gasana-to-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T13:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:44:59","slug":"norway-to-extradite-genocide-suspect-francois-gasana-to-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/norway-to-extradite-genocide-suspect-francois-gasana-to-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway to extradite Genocide suspect Fran\u00e7ois Gasana to Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gasana was arrested in Oslo in October 2022 after an extensive investigation by the Norwegian Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos). <\/p>\n

In September 2023, the Oslo Court ruled that he should be sent to Rwanda, though Gasana appealed the decision. In April 2024, the appellate court upheld the ruling for extradition.<\/p>\n

Gasana appealed once again to the Supreme Court in June 2024, but the court maintained the ruling to send him to Rwanda. This decision was subsequently approved by the Ministry of Justice in February 2025 and by the Cabinet.<\/p>\n

On June 27, 2025, police attorney Thea Elize Kjaeraas, confirmed that Gasana\u2019s extradition to Rwanda is now set to proceed. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe accused is now to be extradited to Rwanda, where he will stand trial for participating in the genocide,\u201d Kjaeraas said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Norwegian government explained that the extradition is part of its commitment to honoring international agreements, including those under the United Nations, aimed at preventing genocide.<\/p>\n

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Norwegian police have announced plans to extradite Fran\u00e7ois Gasana, a suspect accused of involvement in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, to Rwanda for trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000089974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000089974,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/norv-f1304.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/norv-f1304.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/norv-f1304.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/norv-f1304.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/norv-f1304.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/norv-f1304.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54686","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=54686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000089974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54686"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54686"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}