By: Olivia Ward Foreign Affairs Reporter, Published on Sun Feb 16 2014
Toronto lawyer Christopher Black has spent his life defending the indefensible. After a decade-long battle, he’s won exoneration for a Rwandan former paramilitary police chief held for 11 years on charges the UN court now says are invalid.
Former Rwandan Gendarmerie General Augustin Ndindiliyimana, accused of genocide in Rwanda in 1994,
has been acquitted by a criminal tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania, in February.
has been acquitted by a criminal tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania, in February.
When Christopher Black opened his eyes in the Tanzanian hospital, a doctor was standing over him. “Are you a religious man?” he asked, and offered to call a priest. In 2000, the Toronto criminal lawyer had just begun defending a high-profile suspect at a trial of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, when he collapsed from malaria. […]
