The New Times says Jean Léonard Teganya arrived in Kigali on Monday. ICE says the 2019 Boston sentence was 97 months for immigration fraud and perjury.

The Boston case ICE describes was a conviction for immigration fraud and perjury. It was not a genocide conviction in a United States court. Rwanda's indictment is the case the prosecution authority says is now before it, and that authority has not printed a court date.

The New Times, by Aurore Teta Ufitiwabo, on Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, published a photograph captioned as Jean Léonard Teganya arriving at Kigali International Airport that day, and described him as a Rwandan man accused of participating in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. IGIHE, timed Nov. 9, 2026, at 10:36 p.m. with no zone printed, reported that the United States deported Teganya Jean Léonard and that the National Public Prosecution Authority received him on Nov. 9, 2026. Teganya Jean Léonard, on IGIHE, and Jean Léonard Teganya, on The New Times, are not the same name order. IGIHE reported that, according to the authority, he was indicted in 2014 over alleged genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, and that the alleged crimes were committed in Butare town, in Huye District, Southern Province. It reported he was born in 1971 in Gatumba Sector, Ngororero District, Western Province, and that in 1994 he was living in Huye District, studying medicine at the National University of Rwanda and interning at the University Hospital of Butare. KT Press, by the Kigali Today Ltd team, Nov. 9, 2026, with no clock on the byline, reported that the authority said that day it had received Jean Léonard Teganya after his deportation from the United States, and that the plane touched down at Kigali International Airport around 6 p.m. local time after an arrival that had been scheduled for around 11 a.m. local time. Around 6 p.m. local time is KT Press. It is not a clock IGIHE printed. IGIHE's 10:36 p.m. is the story's timestamp, not an arrival time. KT Press reported the 2014 indictment for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity in Butare, now part of Huye District, and the 1971 birth in Gatumba Sector. It reported that the Nov. 9 statement did not announce the charges that will formally be presented in court after the deportation, and that the authority had not said when he will appear. An indictment the authority dates to 2014, and a statement that does not announce the charges to be presented now, are not the same filing step, and KT Press prints both.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in a release dated July 1, 2019, reported that Jean Leonard Teganya, 47, was sentenced that day in federal court in Boston by U.S. District Court Judge F. Denis Saylor IV to 97 months in prison for immigration fraud and perjury, after a jury convicted him in April 2019 of two counts of immigration fraud and three counts of perjury. Jean Leonard, with no accent, is the ICE spelling. The release said that on completion of the sentence he would face removal proceedings, and that the judge found he had obstructed justice by committing perjury when he testified at trial. It said the genocide began on April 6, 1994, and lasted 100 days, and that approximately 800,000 ethnic Tutsis were murdered. The South China Morning Post, published at 4:04 a.m. on Nov. 10, 2026, and updated at 4:31 a.m., with no zone printed, reported that a Rwandan man jailed in the United States for lying about his involvement in the 1994 genocide had been deported, and that the state prosecutor said so on Monday. It reported that the genocide began in April 1994 and that over approximately 100 days some 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis, were murdered. April 6, on ICE, and April, on the South China Morning Post, are not the same start. Approximately 800,000 ethnic Tutsis, on ICE, and some 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis, on the South China Morning Post, are not the same toll. The South China Morning Post said Jean Leonard Teganya, 55, was convicted in April 2019 of two counts of immigration fraud and three of perjury after lying about his alleged role in the genocide to secure U.S. asylum, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Age 55 is the South China Morning Post. Age 47 is ICE's age on July 1, 2019. The Justice Department's April 2019 newsletter said Jean Leonard Teganya, 48, was convicted on April 5 of those same five counts, and that U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV scheduled sentencing for July 1, 2019. Age 48 in April and age 47 in July are not the same age. F. Dennis Saylor IV, in that newsletter, and F. Denis Saylor IV, in the ICE release, are not the same spelling. The judgment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case 1:17-cr-10292, spells the judge F. Dennis Saylor IV, imposes the sentence on July 1, 2019, and commits him to 97 months on counts 1 and 3 and 60 months on counts 2, 4, and 5, to be served concurrently. Ninety-seven months, on ICE, is the total term. The judgment's 60-month terms on counts 2, 4, and 5 are concurrent with that term. They are not an additional 60 months, and the ICE release does not print the 60-month lines. Born in 1971, on IGIHE and on KT Press, is not the same sentence as 47, 48, or 55. ICE said he was encountered on Aug. 3, 2014, walking after he crossed from Canada into Houlton, Maine, and that he was taken into custody. It said Canadian authorities had determined he was not entitled to remain in Canada, and that after 15 years he evaded Canadian authorities and fled into the United States. The April 2019 Justice Department newsletter said Canadian authorities twice determined he was not entitled to asylum, and that he evaded a Canadian deportation order. Twice, and a deportation order, are in that newsletter. They are not the words ICE used. The United States conviction ICE reported was immigration fraud and perjury. It was not a conviction for genocide. Prosecutor General spokesperson Faustin Nkusi told IGIHE that Teganya is the eighth person wanted in connection with the Genocide against the Tutsi to be sent back by the United States since 2007, and IGIHE reported that the most recent before him was Ahmed Napoleon Mbonyunkiza, deported on March 4, 2025. Nkusi's count is IGIHE. It is not in the ICE release. The Rwanda indictment is not a conviction in a Rwandan court. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.