Nairobi - Rwanda's high court on Friday upheld the life sentence of the genocide-era justice minister, who was convicted six years ago for her role in the 1994 slaughter in which 800 000 people were killed.
Agnes Ntamabyariro is the only senior official in the former government to have been brought to justice in Rwanda. Others were tried by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in the Tanzanian city of Arusha and elsewhere.
Ntamabyariro was found guilty in particular for her role in the murder of Jean Baptiste Habyarimana, the head of the Butare prefecture in southern Rwanda, who was a Tutsi.