Reporters Without Borders, an international press freedom organisation, has praised a recent ruling by a Gacaca court that cleared a Rwandan woman journalist of Genocide charges.

Tatiana Mukakibibi, 42, was on November 6 acquitted by a Gacaca court in Kimegeri, Ruhango, Southern Province, after several years in detention.

She was acquitted of Genocide planning, participating in Genocide and distributing weapons in Kimegeri between April and July 1994.

"Reporters Without Borders has learned with great relief that Tatiana Mukakibibi, a former presenter and producer with state-owned Radio Rwanda, was finally acquitted of Genocide charges by a "gacaca” popular tribunal,” the organisation said in a statement.

Gacaca courts, which are currently in their final stages, are community-based jurisdictions which were reintroduced in the country to help expedite Genocide-related trials which had by far overstretched the conventional courts of law.

Up to one million people perished in the 1994 Genocide perpetrated by extremist Hutus.

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