A Rwandan court sentenced former President Pasteur Bizimungu to 15 years in prison for creating a militia, embezzling state funds and inciting ethnic violence.

A Rwandan court has sentenced former President Pasteur Bizimungu to 15 years imprisonment for charges that included creating a militia and inciting violence in the central African country.

Opinion - In his Thursday Postcard of June 10, 2004, Dr. Abdul Raheen Tajudeen betrayed his lack of information and circumstances surrounding the former Rwandan president Pasteur Bizimungu's trial ...

Hundreds of the local public and the members of the press who had turned up for the sentencing of former President Pasteur Bizimungu's case were stunned yesterday when the presiding judge ...

Pasteur Bizimungu, Rwanda’s former president turned opposition leader, has been arrested over what police said was illegal political activity. Bizimungu’s right-hand man, Charles Ntakirutinkad ...

Rwanda ex-president to appeal conviction. Rwandan former President Pasteur Bizimungu will appeal his conviction and 15-year jail sentence handed down by a Kigali court this week, his lawyer said.

Pasteur Bizimungu was freed after serving two years of a 15-year term as an act of clemency by President Paul Kagame to build national unity, an official said.

KIGALI, Rwanda — A court Monday sentenced Rwanda’s former President Pasteur Bizimungu to 15 years imprisonment for threatening national security, embezzling public funds and fomenting ethnic ...

A Rwandan court sentenced the former president Pasteur Bizimungu, the moderate Hutu installed after the genocide, to 15 years in jail yesterday for threatening national security, embezzling public ...

Pasteur Bizimungu was freed after serving two years of a 15-year term as an act of clemency by President Paul Kagame to build national unity, an official said.