Jean-Baptiste Gatete

Biography:

Jean-Baptiste Gatete is a Rwandan politician convicted of conspiracy to commit genocide genocide and extermination in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Gatete was originally sentenced after trial to a term of life imprisonment but the appeal court reduced the term to 40 years reasoning. .. the Appeals Chamber finds that a term of life imprisonment is the appropriate sentence for Gatete in view of all the convictions.. . but. .. Gatete’s right to be tried without undue delay was violated.. . and as. .. any violation of a person’s rights entails the provisio...