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Rwanda: Appeals Court Confirms Sentence Against Activist

Source: Human Rights Watch (2 days ago)

(New York, August 22, 2007) – An appeals court has upheld the 19-year prison sentence of a Rwandan human rights activist on genocide-related charges, failing to address the errors of a lower court ...  Full article


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UNICEF goodwill ambassador American actress Mia Farrow (R) walks together with Omar Ismail (C), a Darfurian residing in the U.S., and an unidentified Rwandan girl carrying a symbolic torch as they enter a genocide mass grave at the Ecole Technique Officielle in Kigali, August 15, 2007. Farrow and fellow campaigners have begun an Olympic-style torch relay through countries that have suffered genocide to press China to help end abuses in the Darfur region of its ally Sudan.



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