A 90-year-old genocide suspect, too ill to stand trial, remains trapped in legal limbo with no country willing to accept him.

A 90-year-old man accused of financing the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Félicien Kabuga, remains in legal limbo after a UN court ruled he is too ill to stand trial due to dementia. Arrested in 2020 after years on the run, he pleaded not guilty but cannot be prosecuted. Despite the court’s decision to release him, no country has agreed to accept him, including Rwanda, which offered to take him but which he fears would mistreat him. His lawyer warns of risks if returned, citing Rwanda’s political climate. Similar cases involve other suspects held indefinitely in Europe or West Africa, with no clear legal path for resolution, exposing systemic gaps in international justice when defendants are unfit to stand trial and repatriation is blocked.