Ogetto warns of dangerous international legal precedent in Rwanda

by Ann Garrison Thursday, Jun. 17, 2010 at 12:39 PM
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Kennedy Ogetto, Kenyan lawyer and Defense Counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda warned that Rwanda's arrest of American Law Professor Peter Erlinder sets a very dangerous international legal precedent. Ogetto, is now in Rwanda's capitol, Kigali, defending Erlinder, who was arrested on May 28th, for speech crime, in Rwanda. He said that the prosecution's use of statements Erlinder made as a defense lawyer at the ICTR as evidence against him will make it impossible for defense lawyers to safely defend anyone in international courts.

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Read at Digital Journal, http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/293386.