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The Great Lakes Human Rights Link was deeply disturbed by the disregard of the EAW Framework principle which states that EU states can no longer refuse to extradite one of their citizens or a foreign national who is on their soil on grounds of nationality or dual criminality.

Accordingly the Great Lakes Human Rights Link is in consultation with our legal team to lodge an appeal against the decision of the Westminster Magistrate Court that granted Gen. Karenzi Karake freedom without trial basing on the above ground.

By granting Gen. Karenzi Karake, freedom without trial  when the Rwandan people and foreigners alike including the Spanish Nationals and even a Briton Graham who were gripped by terror and brutally murdered at the hands of Gen. Karenzi Karake on the orders of  President  Kagame is not only a miscarriage of Justice but also a disregard of human life.

We appeal to our partners to use all means to bring to book all the people who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. Indeed, we believe that the defense of human rights is the sacred duty of our organizations.

In our appeal we will speak of violation of one of the most basic rights of man—the right to have independent convictions and to propagate them by all legal means.

At political trials in Rwanda like those of Ingabire, Deo Mushayidi and Bernard Ntaganda one can often hear the phrase: “You are not being tried for your convictions.”

This is a deep untruth! We are tried expressly for our convictions. When Kagame and RPF tell us we are tried not for convictions, in fact they mean to say the following: you may have any convictions whatever, but if they contradict the official political doctrine, do not dare to disseminate them. And truly, the arrests and trials, about which we will be speaking, take place each time that people having opposition viewpoints begin to propagate them.

But propagation of convictions is a natural outgrowth of the convictions themselves. Therefore, in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights it is stated: “Each person has the right to freedom of convictions and freedom to express them; this right includes the freedom to uphold one’s convictions without hindrance and to freely express, receive, and disseminate information and ideas by all means, regardless of state boundaries.”

Noble Marara

Executive Secretary.

Great Lakes Human Rights Link.

http://www.greatlakeshumanrightslink.com/glhrl-to-appeal-against-gen-karake-release/