Sexual Crimes in Conflict Database
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Jurisprudence judicial mechanism
ICTR - Tharcisse Renzaho
- Country
- Rwanda
- Keywords
- Acquittal Command Responsibility Deficit in Pleading Rape as Crime Against Humanity
- Reference link
- http://unictr.unmict.org/en/cases/ictr-97-31
- Type of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal/Court
- Name of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
- Name of accused
- Tharcisse Renzaho
- Charges
- Genocide, rape as a crime against humanity and rape as a violation of Article 3 Common to the Geneva Conventions and of Additional Protocol II as a war crime under Article 6(3) (command responsibility) for his failure to prevent the rapes of Witnesses AWO, AWN and Witness AWN’s sister.
- Trial chamber verdict
- Renzaho was found guilty by the Trial Chamber (on 14 July 2009) for the sexual violence crimes.
- sentencing
- Renzaho received a sentence of life imprisonment on 1 April 2011 (for other charges).
- Appeals chamber verdict
- The Appeals Chamber reversed the above convictions (on 1 April 2011), because it found that Renzaho’s reason to know of the rapes of Witness AWO, Witness AWN and Witness AWN’s sister was not pleaded in the indictment nor communicated by the Prosecution in a manner sufficient to give notice to Renzaho and that he was materially prejudiced by this defect.
- Status
- 2715
- Case number
- ICTR-97-31
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