Security Council resolution 978 (1995) [on arrest and detention of persons responsible for acts within the jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for Rwanda]

Urges States to arrest and detain, in accordance with their national law and relevant standards of international law, pending prosecution by the International Tribunal for Rwanda or by the appropriate national authorities, persons found within their territory against whom there is sufficient evidence that they were responsible for acts within the jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for Rwanda; urges States who detain persons to inform the Secretary-General and the Prosecutor of the International Tribunal of the identity of the persons detained, the nature of the crimes, the evidence providing probable cause for the detentions, the date when the persons were detained and the place of detention; urges States who detain such persons to cooperate with representatives of ICRC, as well as investigators for the International Tribunal; condemns all attacks against persons in the refugee camps near the borders of Rwanda; urges States, on whose territory serious acts of violence in the refugee camps have taken place, to arrest and detain, in accordance with their national law and relevant standards of international law, and submit to the appropriate authorities for the purpose of prosecution of persons against whom there is sufficient evidence that they have incited or participated in such acts.

Adopted unanimously, 3504th meeting

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Urges States to arrest and detain persons responsible for acts within the jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for Rwanda.