Tanzania Releases ICTR Attorney

Tanzania has released Calixte Gakwaya, the ICTR defense attorney suspected of participating in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Although no explanation for the release was given, a day earlier the ICTR Registrar, Adama Deng, had expressed concern about Gakwaya’s arrest to Tanzanian authorities, pointing out that the UN and Tanzania have agreed on certain immunities for lawyers representing Tribunal defendants.