A district court in Denmark has upheld a decision from the Danish Ministry of Justice to extradite a man to Rwanda, where he faces charges of genocide.
The 50-year-old unnamed suspect was unable to prove to the court that he would not face a fair trial in Rwanda and now faces extradition back to the country. He has appealed against the decision.
Rwandan authorities requested the suspect’s removal in 2008 or demanded that Danish authorities prosecute him themselves. Since no genocide law had existed in Denmark at the time, the man was indicted for murder, charges that he still faces, depending on the outcome of his appeal.
Denmark has since amended their laws to allow acts of genocide committed elsewhere to be prosecuted for in the country. However, the law cannot be applied retroactively.
The suspect is accused of ordering the murder of hundreds of Tutsis, during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide which saw approximately 800,000 Tutsis killed.
