KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A lawyer representing a U.S. attorney accused of minimizing Rwanda’s 1994 genocide says his client is at the capital’s airport to fly to Kenya days after being granted bail on medical grounds.
Kennedy Ogeto says security guards checked his and Peter Erlinder’s bags twice before allowing them into the gate area.
Ogeto did not offer more details about Erlinder’s travel plans.
Erlinder’s brother, Scott, said he expected him to fly from Kenya to Tanzania and Amsterdam before arriving in New York. Scott Erlinder said he thought his brother would have a news conference Tuesday in New York.
Erlinder, 62, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, was arrested May 28 while in Rwanda to help with the legal defense of an opposition leader.
