在阿鲁沙分支机构，我的办公室采取重要步骤，执行安理会赋予我们的职责，按照《余留机制规约》确保继续保护证人并起诉藐视法庭罪。9月份，上诉分庭驳回了奥古斯丁·恩吉拉巴图瓦雷提出的复核请求，确认了对他的上诉判决。几周之后，一名法官同样确认了我们对恩吉拉巴图瓦雷先生的起诉，我们指控他犯下两项藐视法庭罪和一项煽动藐视法庭罪。奥古斯丁·恩吉拉巴图瓦雷是一名前卢旺达政府部长，因怂恿、煽动、协助和教唆灭绝种族罪行，在2014年被定罪，判处30年监禁。2016年，他要求上诉分庭基于所谓新事实撤销对他的判决。他声称，4名在审判时指证他的证人已经撤回了他们的证词。在对此事进行调查过程中，我的办公室发现，大量证据表明，在过去三年里，很多人卷入一个涉及面广的犯罪计划，意在影响这4位证人，使之撤回以前的证词。我们利用这些证据，成功地维护了对恩吉拉巴图瓦雷的灭绝种族罪判决，现已对6人提起藐视法庭罪诉讼，其中包括恩吉拉巴图瓦雷先生本人。这些结果向曾在卢旺达
At the Arusha branch, my Office has taken significant steps to carry out our mandate from the Council to ensure the continued protection of witnesses and prosecute contempt of court offences under the Mechanism’s statute. In September, the Appeals Chamber rejected the request for review submitted by Augustin Ngirabatware, and affirmed the appeal judgment against him. A few weeks later, a single Judge likewise confirmed our indictment against Mr. Ngirabatware, charging him with two counts of contempt of court and one count of incitement to commit contempt of court. Augustin Ngirabatware is a former Rwandan Government minister who was convicted in 2014 for inciting, instigating and aiding and abetting genocide and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. In 2016, he asked the Appeals Chamber to reverse his convictions on the basis of an alleged new fact. Specifically, he submitted that four witnesses who testified against him at trial had recanted their testimonies. In the course of investigating that matter, my Office uncovered extensive evidence of a broad criminal scheme involving many individuals over three years, aimed at influencing those four witnesses to recant their prior testimonies. With that evidence, we successfully defended Ngirabatware’s conviction for genocide and have now indicted six individuals for contempt of court, including Mr. Ngirabatware himself.