Arusha, 3 July 2008 (FH) - The Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) trying six persons accused of having helped the genocide in Butare ,southern Rwanda, has limited the lawyer's final trial briefs to 200 pages and gave them only six weeks to produce them.

Arusha, 3 July 2008 (FH) - Rwandan prisons had in February 375 infants living with their detained mothers, according to the website of the Rwandan League for the Promotion and the Defence of Human Right (LIPRODHOR).

The Hague, 3 July 2008 (FH) - The judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered Wednesday the release "without restrictions" of Thomas Lubanga, founder and leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC), an armed military in Ituri, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). However, The prosecutor has, appealed the decision.

Arusha, 3 July 2008 (FH) - The trial of former Rector of Christ the King College, Hormisdas Nsengimana, on Wednesday was adjourned to early next week because of non-availability of defence witnesses, reports Hirondelle Agency.

Brussels, 2 July 2008 (FH) - William Schabas, Director of the Irish Center for Human Rights, a lawyer close to the Rwandan authorities, considers that the decisions of the judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to reject the transfer requests of defendants to Rwanda is a lack of respect towards national courts.