On December 18, 2014, the Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Appeals Chamber) delivered its first appeal judgment in the case of The Prosecutor v. Augustin Ngirabatware, affirming the conviction of Ngirabatware in part.  According to the press release, “[t]he Appeals Chamber unanimously affirmed Ngirabatware’s conviction for direct and public incitement to commit genocide. A majority of the Appeals Chamber also affirmed Ngirabatware’s conviction for instigating and aiding and abetting genocide.”  The Appeals Chamber also “unanimously reversed Ngirabatware’s conviction for rape as a crime against humanity under the extended form of joint criminal enterprise” and consequently reduced his sentence to a term of thirty years.  The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda convicted Ngirabatware in 2012 and originally sentenced him to thirty-five years imprisonment.