Ingabire, Mugesera in Supreme Court today

GENOCIDE suspect Léon Mugesera and the head of a yet to be registered political party, FDU Inkingi, Victoire Ingabire, will today appear before the Supreme Court seeking revocations of articles of some laws that were referred to in their pre-trial and trial respectively.“The two filed suits challenging the civil procedural code requesting the revocations of some articles that were referred to in their trials at the High Court,” the Courts Spokesman, Charles Kaliwabo told The New Times.Mugesera’s challenge is about a decision of the Court denying him more time to study his dossier. He claims he wants the High Court decision repealed.Mugesera was in January this year deported from Canada after a legal battle that lasted close to two decades.Mugesera is accused of making an infamous speech in 1992 that allegedly played a major role in sparking the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, in which radical ethnic Hutus killed more than one million Tutsi.Victoire Ingabire will also appear in the Supreme Court on constitutional matters challenging the genocide ideology law.Ingabire, who faces three counts, including propagating genocide ideology, she petitioned the Supreme Court, seeking interpretation of the genocide ideology law and if it is relevant in her case.She had claimed that the prosecution is using the law on genocide ideology retrospectively, since it came into force in 2008, on crimes she allegedly committed in 2007.The law against genocide ideology, which Ingabire was challenging, is currently undergoing amendment but prosecution insisted the review had no bearing on the proceedings of the case.Ingabire faces charges of terrorism, promoting ethnic divisionism and propagating genocide ideology.The High Court is expected to pass the final verdict in her case on Friday September 7.In the case, she is accused along with four other suspects who have all pleaded guilty.Ingabire is also accused of having colluded with the four, who are former officers with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) militia, to form a military activities aimed at destabilising the country.Based in DRC, FDLR is composed of elements largely blamed for the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, which claimed more than a million lives.

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Ingabire, Mugesera in Supreme Court today