Court has granted two months to Genocide suspect Leo Mugesera to prepare for his trial.
Mugesera had requested court to delay his trial for six months a period which he said would allow him to read through a document of 40,000pages.
Mugesera provided to court a list of many reasons why he needed the period of six months.
He included among the reasons as unclear and missing pages in the document, he also requested for the original hard copy of the document.
Mugesera’s lawyer, Jean-Felix Rudakemwa, noted, “We filed a suit in the Supreme Court of which we are waiting for a decision. But also, the dossier we received from the prosecution had some missing pages which the prosecution gave us recently and we haven’t reviewed all of them”.
The Defence also pointed out that one of the reasons why they request an adjournment is that from pages 610 to 646 of the case file are not visually clear and that they need a prosecutor to work with on the unclear part.
“We also request the prosecution to translate the 1,700-page dossier from Kinyarwanda to English and French so that Mugesera’s foreign lawyers can read and understand it.
We also want the prosecution to give us a hard copy of the Canadian dossier which is 40,000 pages,” lawyer Rudakemwa requested Judge Athanase Bakuzakundi.
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