International justice

After a nine-year term, Gambian Fatou Bensouda will leave the International Criminal Court (ICC) in June 2021, but her successor as prosecutor has still not been identified. The 123 Member States of the Court have been trying for several months to find the candidate who will reach agreement. as reported from The Hague,…

Arrested in mid-May after 26 years on the run, the Rwandan businessman faces seven counts of genocide and crimes against humanity. In late September, the Court of Cassation validated the arrest warrant issued against him and ordered his transfer to the mechanism, a UN body responsible for the latest cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which closed its doors in 2014. The…

Félicien Kabuga will eventually have to be transferred to The Hague rather than Arusha. This is the decision taken on Wednesday by a judge of the UN mechanism responsible for the latest cases at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). He was arrested on May 16 in the suburbs of Paris and prosecuted for genocide and crimes against humanity.…

The prosecutor of the Worldwide Prison Courtroom, Fatou Bensouda, ended his go to to Khartoum on Tuesday, October twentieth. First go to of an ICC consultant to the nation for the aim of speaking in regards to the crimes dedicated in the course of the civil struggle in Darfur. as reported from Nairobi, Sébastien NémethThe…

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has been on an official visit to Sudan since Saturday 17 October. This is the first official contact between the authorities following the 2018 revolution and the ICC, and it is an opportunity for Khartoum and the prosecutor to concretely discuss the verdict on the crimes committed under the former leader's regime. of the state of Omar al-Bashir. as reported from Nairobi, "This historic visit is proof of the overall reform of the new Sudan." This…

When will Félicien Kabuga be tried? France, where the alleged Rwandan genocide was arrested in May, gave the green light on Wednesday to define its surrender to the mechanism of international courts seeking to try him for war crimes and genocide. An important step has been taken, but the road to trial is still long. Serge Brammertz, lawyer for this mechanism, is our guest this morning. .