The High Court Chamber for International Crimes in Nyanza District has postponed the trial of former FLN militia group spokesperson Callixte Nsabimana, as civil parties in the case were not ready to use information technology to give their testimony in court.
These civil parties are in Rusizi District (where many of the crime Nsabimana is being accused took place), which effective Wednesday was placed under travel restrictions following the upsurge of Covid-19 cases there.
The alternative was for the these parties to the trial to give their testimonies via video link, which they were not ready to do, prompting court to push the trial to July 8.
According to the judges, the court was ready for a virtual trial, just as the prison where Nsabimana is currently being detained; however, the witnesses were not.
Nsabimana is facing 17 terror-related charges mainly connected to the activities of the FLN rebel group.
