The Appeals Chamber of Norway court has granted Rwanda's request of extraditing Genocide suspect Eugene Nkuranyabahizi who is suspected of participating in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, a judicial source revealed Thursday in Kigali.
Nkuranyabahizi, 41, was a former teacher in Butare prefecture, southern Rwanda, during the genocide, according to the Rwandan Prosecutor's office.
The decision to extradite him was taken this week by the Appeals Chamber of Norway court based in the city of Bergen, it said.
Nkuranyabahizi, who has been living in Norway for 15 years has previously mounted an immediate legal challenge, arguing that he would not get a fair trial in Rwanda and might be tortured and persecuted.
The suspect, who has Burundian citizenship is accused of having participated in the killings in the areas of Nkakwa and Cyahinda, where some 7,500 people were slaughtered during genocide against Tutsis in 1994.
However, on September 2, the court in Bergen, on the west coast of Norway, concluded that these risks had not been demonstrated. Nkuranyabahizi and his lawyer have immediately filed an appeal.
Since 2006, the Kigali government has called on Western countries to extradite for trial in Rwanda, scores of genocide suspects seeking asylum in Europe and North America.
The Rwandan government has already published a list of 93 genocide suspects it said were exiled in Africa, Europe and America.
They include French priest, Gabriel Maindron, who is France, and Agathe Kanziga, widow of former President Juvénal Habyarimana, also living in France but as a asylum seeker since 1994.
Kigali has accused Paris of playing a role in the 1994 genocide and also serving as sanctuary for some of the suspects.