Lawyer: US attorney charged in Rwanda to return home soon after court grants his release
By APFriday, June 18, 2010
US attorney charged in Rwanda to return home soon
KIGALI, Rwanda — A lawyer representing a U.S. attorney accused of minimizing Rwanda’s 1994 genocide says his client will travel home soon after being granted bail on medical grounds.
Kennedy Ogeto says American Peter Erlinder was discharged from the hospital Friday and will travel to the U.S. for treatment, possibly in two days’ time.
Ogeto says Erlinder will return to Rwanda when summoned to court for his case.
Rwanda’s prosecutor general has confirmed that Erlinder is free to travel to the United States.
Erlinder, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, was arrested May 28 while in Rwanda to help with the legal defense of an opposition leader.
Erlinder, 62, has been hospitalized multiple times since his arrest.
