Rwanda's former composer and singer Simon Bikindi has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for his role in inciting ethnic killings during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
He is the first Rwandan musician to be sentenced over the genocide by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which is seated in Arusha in northern Tanzania.
It is the second judgement delivered by the UN court this year and two more judgements are expected to be delivered before the end of this year, according to reports reaching here on Wednesday.
The tribunal last month got its mandate extended by the United Nations Security Council to the end of next year instead of the end of this year to allow it hear all pending cases of genocide suspects.
There are now 18 pending cases with 37 detainees awaiting trials, while the ICTR court has completed 38 cases. The court has so far handed down 32 convictions and five acquittals, while one case is on appeal.
The tribunal was established in 1995 to prosecute suspects of the 1994 Rwanda genocide that claimed more than 800,000 lives.
Thirteen people suspected of genocide-related crimes in Rwanda are still at large.