Rwandan imprisoned for hate speech fails in bid for Canadian intervention
09-09-2026 01:36 via nationalpost.com

Rwandan imprisoned for hate speech fails in bid for Canadian intervention

A Quebec judge has dismissed the case of a former senior Rwandan politician who was deported from Canada and ended up in prison for his role in the central African country’s genocide more than three decades ago.Léon Mugesera, 74, is serving a life sentence in Rwanda for hate speech aimed at stirring up killings of minority Tutsis in the early 1990s. Canada deported him to Rwanda in January 2012.He took Attorney General Sean Fraser to Federal Court claiming that his “fundament
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