his first appearance before the Trial Chamber, Bicamumpaka refused to plead guilty or not guilty, because the registrar of the ICTR had refused his request to be represented by a lawyer of his own choosing. The trial opened on November 6, 2003 and the proceedings against the four defendants lasted almost five years. The judges deliberated for three years before Bicamumpaka was acquitted on September 30, 2011. During the delivery of the judgment, the president of the seat declared that the prosecutor had accused Bicamumpaka and his three co-defendants of extremely serious crimes, but that the defendants had produced ample exculpatory evidence. Release and post-acquittal After his acquittal, Bicamumpaka was immediately released. The prosecutor chose not to appeal the verdict.. The Registry of the ICTR immediately took charge of him for his stay in Arusha, while waiting to be able to join his family. The latter was staying in Canada and had in the meantime become Canadian. The administrative procedures with Immigration Canada will last several years, and today for almost four years, Jerome C. Bicamumpaka is still waiting for the Canadian Minister of Public Security to issue him a ministerial exemption allowing him access to Canadian territory and to be reunited with his family. By now he will have spent more than ten years in Arusha, awaiting this reunification. On December 8, 2021, the Registrar of the Residual Mechanism (UN-IRMCT) who took over from the ICTR in this charge of his management informed him that he would no longer benefit from the protection of the United Nations and his care, in Tanzania, because he would have declined the offer made to him to be relocated to Niger! In fact, on November 18, 2021, the Registrar told him that he had to travel to Niger within two weeks for his final relocation, along with eight other people awaiting a host country. He then declined this offer, imposed unilaterally and brutally, because it was contrary to the UN-IRMCT Headquarters Agreement, in particular in its article 39(1), then for medical reasons, in view of the precariousness of medical care in Niger! Indeed, by doing so, the Registrar had violated his rights. On December 16, 2021, Jerome C. Bicamumpaka then had to initiate legal proceedings before the President of the UN-IRMCT, in order to be restored to his rights. This was done on December 20, 2021, following a decision by the President of