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RWANDAN MASSACRE SUSPECT LAUNCHES WEB SITE FROM JAIL A Rwandan journalist accused of helping to orchestrate his country’s genocidal massacre in 1994 has launched a Web site from inside his prison cell, causing consternation among United Nations officials at the east African facility where he is being held.Hassan Ngeze is on trial for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha. He is refusing to attend his trial, claiming it is biased, but he has launched a parallel defense on a US-based Web site on which he protests his innocence. The tactic has alarmed UN officials, who fear the site could jeopardize the integrity of Ngeze’s trial or the lives of anonymous witnesses testifying against him. And in an echo of last year’s French court challenge that forced the Internet portal Yahoo! Inc. to end auctions of Nazi memorabilia, the United Nations may seek to break new legal ground and shut Ngeze’s site down. Worried UN officials say Ngeze has clearly provided material for the Web site, because it includes documents only available within the UN detention facility in Arusha, along with recent photographs of Ngeze himself. They fear it could prejudice the ongoing trial or, worse, be used to send coded messages about anonymous prosecution witnesses to the outside world, endangering their lives. They also say his allegations about UN staff are defamatory.The UN would like to shut down Ngeze’s Web site but realizes such a move would raise "very, very tricky legal and political issues, because the Web sites are being established and operated by people outside" Tanzania, said tribunal registrar Agwu Okali at a news conference. (source: Declan McCullagh’s
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