Who is Jean Leonard Teganya, deported by US over Rwanda genocide claims?

Rwanda’s National Public Prosecution Authority (NPPA) confirmed that Teganya arrived at Kigali International Airport on the evening of November 9, 2026, accompanied by US security officers. He was handed over to Rwandan prosecutors. The NPPA said it had indicted him in 2014 over his alleged involvement in genocide and crimes against humanity in the former Butare prefecture in southern Rwanda.

It did not provide details of the specific allegations against him. Born in 1971, Teganya was studying medicine at the National University of Rwanda in Butare during the genocide. He was also undertaking practical training at the University Teaching Hospital of Butare.

He left Rwanda in July 1994, as the genocide came to an end. According to US court records, he travelled through what was then Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as Kenya and India, before reaching Canada in 1999. He applied for asylum in Canada, but his application was rejected in 2002 and again in 2012.