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About Lennart Aspegren
- Lennart Aspegren (b.
- 1931) was a Swedish judge who served on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
- He was one of three judges who ruled that rape fell within the legal definition of genocide and crimes against humanity in the case The Prosecutor v.
- Jean Paul Akayesu.
- Akeyesu was the first genocide trial in history: "Not even Eichmann in Israel, who was accused of having committed crimes against humanity, was charged with genocide".
- While serving on the Tribunal he worked with Navi Pillay who later became the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
- In 2011, Aspegren accepted a position with the UN Expert Committee for Gaza; together with American judge Mary Davis, Aspergen prepared a report colloquially called the "Davis/Aspegren Report".
- It was presented by the UN Human Rights Council’s Committee in 2011; the United States and Israel voted against it.
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