Rwandan presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, Law Professor Peter Erlinder's client, in Rwanda, before his own arrest.
Fox News, in its own words:
"Erlinder, who has not spoken to friends or family since being detained, was in Rwanda defending alleged leaders of the country's 1994 genocide, but Friday the judge charged him with denying genocide and with publishing articles threatening the country's security. "
Fox seems to be confusing Rwanda's 2010 presidential election, which his client Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, keeps trying to enter as an opposition candidate, with the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda, (ICTR), in Arusha, Tanzania, where Erlinder has served as Lead Defense Counsel for several of the accused.
Professor Erlinder's evidence, the Rwanda Documents Project, gathered during his years of work as a defender at the ICTR, is the basis of his argument that the received history of the Rwanda Genocide is history written by the victors, as he said here, at the Second International Defense Lawyer's Conference in Bruxxelles, just before flying to Kigali to defend Victoire.
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@ Dinah -- I think the idea is that Prof. Erlinder needs legal help in Rwanda...and support from the State Dept., not a lawyer in San Francisco. Better still, it would be great if the Kagame government wasn't so oppressive. I've written and called my Congressmen to ask them to suspend all aid to Rwanda while Kagame is imprisoning a U.S. citizen who's being punished for things he said and did while upholding the integrity of the ICTR by participating as a defense attorney.
ReplyDeleteDefense attorneys should not have to hire defense attorneys...and they don't in a free nation.