Deirdre Jurand at 1:00 PM ET [JURIST] Genocide suspects held at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] will now be able to receive conjugal visits, court officials said Saturday. Court spokesman Roland Amoussouga said that the new policy would bring the court's practices more in line with those of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website], which has allowed conjugal visits since 1993, and with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [text]. Detainees must abide by the court's rules of detention [text] for the visits, and failure to do so would lead to the revocation of the privilege [Hirondelle News Agency report]. Rwandan officials criticized the new policy, calling it a "mockery" of the justice system [Daily News report] and saying that it is...
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