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Rwanda scraps over 1000 colonial-era laws
The New Times reports that The Minister of Justice, Johnston Busingye, told the newspaper in a telephone interview that this step finally means that Rwandans ...
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Rwanda scraps over 1000 colonial-era laws
The New Times reports that The Minister of Justice, Johnston Busingye, told the newspaper in a telephone interview that this step finally means that Rwandans ...
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US Department of State Human Rights Report: Rwanda 2012
"The law provides for a presumption of innocence, but government officials did not always adhere to this in practice. The law requires defendants be informed ...
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Commission finds pretrial and post-sentence injustices
National Commission on Human Rights submits worrying report on prisons to Rwandan Parliament.
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Amnesty releases report alleging torture by Rwandan military
On 8 October 2012 Amnesty International released a report entitled "Shrouded in Secrecy: Illegal Detention and torture by Military Intelligence". The report ...
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Rwanda: Shrouded in secrecy Illegal detention and torture by Rwanda’s military intelligence
Amnesty International began to receive reports of enforced disappearances, torture and other ill-treatment by Rwandan military intelligence in March 2010. This ...
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Rwandan Mpanga International Prison commended
Employees of the US Embassy in Kigali have commended the Rwanda Correctional Services (RCS) for promoting better and safer environment for inmates of this ...
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Rwanda
This section contains a brief description of the legal system of Rwanda.
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International Tribunal refers prosecution to Rwanda
The prosecution of Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi, a former Pentecostal pastor, who allegedly led multiple attacks on ethnic Tutsis, including a massacre at Kayenzi ...
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Rwanda's Troubled Gacaca Courts
This article by Christopher Le Mon from Human Rights Brief, a publication of the American University's Washington College of Law, considers the gacaca courts ...
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