It is extremely unfortunate that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights-Committee Against Torture (HCHR-CAT) has chosen to involve itself in the case of Leon Mugesera, a genocide fugitive who fled to Canada.
After spending almost two decades fighting his removal from Canadian soil all the way to the Supreme Court, his victims finally believed that he would soon face justice, this week. Unfortunately, his defence team has successfully petitioned the HCHR-CAT on the pretext that he would be tortured in Rwanda.
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