The President of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Judge Khalida Rachid Khan, on 14 September 2011, assigned Judge Arlette Ramaroson (Madagascar) to the Appeals Chamber of the ICTR effective from 22 September 2011. The assignment takes into consideration Resolution 1878 (2009) of the UN Security Council amending Article 13 (3) of the Statute of the ICTR which provides that the President may assign up to four additional Permanent Judges serving in the ICTR Trial Chambers to the Appeals Chamber of the ICTR once their cases are completed. It also recalls Resolution 1955 (2010) and Resolution 1995 (2010)... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, September 18th 2011 |
By Gambian Correspondent – Tanzania-based UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) will transfer the cases of six out of nine fugitive suspects to Kigali, Rwanda, for trial now that the judges are satisfied that any accused person, who is sent there for trial, will have the benefit of a fair trial. This was announced by the Gambian-born chief prosecutor of the court, Hassan Baboucarr Jallow, in an interview with this paper on Monday. Hassan Baboucarr Jallow, a former attorney-general and justice minister in The Gambia, said that the tribunal currently has only nine fugitives outstanding. “We will be filing... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 20th 2011 |
The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda today referred the case of Jean Uwinkindi to the Republic of Rwanda to be tried in the Rwandan national court system under Rule 11 bis, marking the first time in the Tribunal’s history it has done so. A specially designated Referral Chamber composed of Judges Florence Rita Arrey, Presiding, Emile Francis Short and Robert Fremr decided upon assessment of the submissions of the Defence and amici curiae (including the Government of Rwanda, Human Right Watch, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, the International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association, and the Kigali Bar Association) that... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, June 28th 2011 |
The United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda today convicted all the six accused persons in what is called the Butare case including the first woman to be charged of genocide, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, the former Minister of Family and Women’s Development. Trial Chamber II composed of Judges William Sekule, presiding, Arlette Ramaroson and Solomy Balungi Bossa then sentenced Nyiramasuhuko to life in prison for conspiracy to commit genocide, genocide, crimes against humanity (extermination, rape, and persecution), and serious violations of Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions and of Additional Protocol II thereto (violence to life, and outrages upon personal... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, June 26th 2011 |
Bernard Munyagishari, former President of Interahamwe for Gisenyi was on 14 June 2011 transferred from Goma, in the Democtratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the United Nations Detention Facility in Arusha, Tanzania. On 25 May 2011 Munyagishari was arrested in an operation mounted by the DRC Armed Forces, in collaboration with the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) Tracking Unit in Kachanga, North Kivu. He is scheduled to make his initial appearance in accordance with Rule 62 of the Tribunal Rules during which he will answer to charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, including rape, preferred against him. The accused... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, June 16th 2011 |
