The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has acquitted Fr Hormisdas Nsengimana of charges of crimes against humanity during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The UN court ordered the immediate release of Fr Nsengimana, who was a priest at a Catholic secondary school, Reuters reports.
"The Chamber did not find a sufficient factual and legal basis for concluding that Nsengimana was guilty of any of the crimes," the tribunal said.
The prosecution had said Nsengimana was at the centre of a group of Hutu extremists that planned and carried out targeted attacks and participated directly in killings.
Nsengimana has been in prison since his arrest in Cameroon in 2002.
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