Front Line is concerned following reports of the sentencing of human rights defender Francois-Xavier Byuma to 19 years in prison on 18 August 2007. He was found guilty of genocide-related charges on the basis of inconsistent evidence in an unfair trial. Francois-Xavier Byuma works for Turengere Abana, l’Association Rwandaise pour la Protection et la Promotion de l’Enfant (Rwandan Association for the Protection and Promotion of the Child). 
