Mugesera delays deportation

Rwandan politician Léon Mugesera’s deportation is being delayed with the intervention of the Quebec Superior Court.

According to the Canadian Press, he was supposed to be sent back to the African nation on Thursday to face criminal charges.

Charges against him are related to the 1994 killing of more than 800,000 Rwandans.

His deportation has been delayed to allow the legal evaluation by the United Nations’ committee against torture of Mugesera’s claim that he would be tortured if returned to Rwanda.

Mugesera has been living in Quebec City for decades and was in the hospital for a second straight day because of an unspecified health issue.

If the deportation order is carried out as it was planned, Mugesera would be the first refugee claimant to be sent back to Rwanda to face charges related to the genocide.