UK judge imposes £100,000 bail condition on Rwanda genocide accused

What the report says

A UK judge has tightened bail conditions for Dr Vincent Brown, also known as Vincent Bajinya, a 65-year-old man accused over killings linked to the 1994 Rwanda genocide. BBC Africa reports that Brown is alleged to have been a leader or supervisor of violent acts and faces accusations of “killing, directing or encouraging” the deaths of members of Rwanda’s Tutsi ethnic group. He denies wrongdoing. The case is being heard at the Old Bailey in London.

Judge Mark Lucraft KC ordered that Brown remain in custody unless he can provide a £100,000 surety, increasing an earlier £25,000 security set by magistrates. The conditions also require him to surrender travel documents, avoid applying for international papers, comply with electronic monitoring, keep to a curfew at his London address, and report daily to police.

The BBC says Brown is the first person in the UK charged over the Rwanda genocide. The allegations relate to killings said to have taken place between 6 and 13 April, with six named victims identified in the report. Brown, who lives in Islington, north London, was charged after a seven-year British investigation. The genocide itself is widely understood to have lasted about 100 days in 1994 and left an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus dead, according to the article.