The trial of a suspected mastermind of the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been halted in The Hague.
Félicien Kabuga, 90, was scheduled to stand trial after evading capture for 26 years, but his lawyers claim he suffers from dementia and is not fit to stand trial.
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals agreed to a temporary halt the proceedings while his health is evaluated.
Mr. Kabuga, a wealthy businessman, is accused of using his radio station to incite ethnic Hutus to torture and kill Tutsi rivals.
He is accused of inciting the genocide by broadcasting inflammatory hate speech.
It has also been claimed that he used his large fortune made in the 1970s tea trade to buy machetes used to arm the Hutu death squads. He has denied all the charges.
Mr Kabuga was arrested in 2020 after managing to avoid capture for decades. French investigators tracked him down to an apartment in Paris where he had been living under a false identity.
Survivors of the genocide have previously expressed concerns that justice might not be served if Mr Kabuga dies without facing trial at the ICC, which was already expected to take years.
