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Rwanda to charge Peter Erlinder with genocide denial

Rwanda's top prosecutor wants an American professor to appear in a Rwandan court on charges of genocide denial.

Martin Ngoga says Peter Erlinder will be charged with denying Rwanda's genocide. Erlinder, a law professor at the William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, was arrested in May and was granted bail in June....
Read entire article at Minnesota Public Radio