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Rwanda Survivors are also hugely pleased with the outcome.

Senior judges ruled that there was "a real risk" they would suffer "a flagrant denial of justice".
All four were wanted in connection with the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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The men deny involvement in the genocide and say they would not receive a fair trial if they were forced to return to Rwanda.

The court ordered the men, who have been held in custody since December 2006, be released.
They are: Dr Vincent Bajinya, from north London; Charles Munyaneza, from Bedford; Celestin Ugirashebuja from Essex; and Emmanuel Nteziryayo, of Manchester.
We conclude that if they were extradited to face trial in the High Court of Rwanda, the appellants would suffer a real risk of a flagrant denial of justice Lord Justice Laws and Lord Justice Sullivan.

The men are accused of killing, or conspiring with or aiding and abetting others, to kill members of the Tutsi ethnic group "with the intent to destroy in whole, or in part, that group".
Mr Munyaneza, Mr Ugirashebuja and Mr Nteziryayo were said to be mayors of local communes who allegedly organised killings in their areas while Dr Bajinya was allegedly a militia organiser in Kigali.

At an extradition hearing in 2007, a court heard allegations that Dr Bajinya, who changed his name to Vincent Brown when he became a British citizen, had been part of the "inner circle" of then Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana.

After the president died in a plane crash in 1994 Dr Bajinya - a former member of the Rwandan governing MRND party - was claimed to have attended key "genocide meetings" where plans to murder hundreds of thousands of Tutsis were planned.

The court was told Dr Bajinya then went on to become a leader in the Interahamwe militia, which was to spearhead the slaughter.

Appeal refused

But Lord Justice Laws and Lord Justice Sullivan, sitting at London's High Court, allowed the men's appeals against Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's orders that they be extradited because, they said, there was evidence that defence witnesses in Rwanda were afraid to give evidence in the men's favour.

The judges added: "We conclude that if (the four) were extradited to face trial in the High Court of Rwanda, the appellants would suffer a real risk of a flagrant denial of justice by reason of their likely inability to adduce the evidence of supporting witnesses."

The judges also ruled there was a real risk "of executive (government) interference with the judiciary" in Rwanda.

They refused the Rwandan government, represented by the Crown Prosecution Service, permission to appeal to the House of Lords against their ruling.

The judges' decision is thought to be the first time an English court has ever blocked an extradition request from a foreign government on the grounds that it would violate Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which safeguards the right to a fair trial.

Lord Justice Laws described it as "an important and anxious case". Lord Gifford QC, who had appeared for Mr Munyaneza, said the case had revealed "an emerging international consensus that there is no fair trial in Rwanda".

An estimated 3,500,000 Rwandans were murdered in as in Rwanda and in the Congo as well.
Frank Brazell, a solicitor representing Vincent Brown aka Dr Bajinya, welcomed the judges' ruling, saying: "We are hugely pleased with the result..

"The central issue they have found is that there is clearly no prospect of these men having a fair trial in Rwanda. "The primary reason is the likelihood of political interference affecting the approach taken by the judges of Rwanda to a case of this kind.

"Obviously this is linked to interference with witnesses and the inability to call defence witnesses because of government or judicial interference. "

He said Mr Brown, a British national and qualified doctor who had worked for a charity training nurses, would soon be released from custody.

He has been held since 28 December 2006. Asked if Mr Brown would now seek compensation, Mr Brazell said the issue would be discussed in due course.