Former Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu has been released from jail after being given a presidential pardon three years into a 15-year sentence.
He had been found guilty of trying to form a militia, inciting ethnic violence and embezzlement.

Mr Bizimungu became president in 1994, after the genocide in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.

But he resigned after falling out with rebel leader Paul Kagame, who later took over as president.

Pasteur Bizimungu

Mr Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) took control of Rwanda in July 1994, putting an end to the genocide organised by extremist Hutu leaders.

Mr Bizimungu criticised his former colleagues of an unwarranted crackdown on dissent.

Last year, Rwanda’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal against his sentence.