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No criminal
Posted by Bec Hamilton on 8th February 2010
You showed us the crime but not the criminal – is the basic message from the ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I to the Prosecutor.
At 103 pages their actual decision is significantly more detailed than that, but in essence the judges decided not to confirm the charges against Abu Garda not because they do not think that the attack on Haskanita did not happen, and not because they do not think that was a crime - but simply because they did not find substantial grounds to believe that Abu Garda himself played …
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The ICC’s blunder on Sudan
Posted by Nesrine Malik on 5th February 2010
The ICC’s decision that Omar al-Bashir may be charged with genocide has played into the hands of the Sudanese regime.
Yesterday, the international criminal court decided that Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, may be charged with genocide. Bashir has a knack for being in places that embarrass the court when such rulings are made. Last March, when a warrant for his arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity was issued, he was in front of TV cameras in north Darfur. Yesterday, he was in Qatar meeting the emir for talks on …
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Africa warns international court over Sudan decision
Posted by Emmanuel Goujon (AFP) on 5th February 2010
ADDIS ABABA — The African Union on Friday said the International Criminal Court’s decision to consider adding genocide charges to an arrest warrant for President Omar el-Beshir harms Sudan’s peace process.
“The AU reiterates that the search for justice should be pursued in a manner not detrimental to the search for peace. The latest decision by the ICC runs in the opposite direction,” the pan-African body said in a statement.
An appeals chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday ordered a review of Beshir’s arrest warrant for alleged atrocities …
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Court ordered to rule again on Darfur genocide charge
Posted by Mike Corder, Associated Press Writer on 3rd February 2010
The International Criminal Court was ordered on Wednesday to reconsider indicting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with waging genocide in Darfur.
Appeals judges said the court was wrong to conclude in March that there was insufficient evidence to merit charging Mr. al-Bashir with three genocide counts. Instead, it had charged him with seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of murder, torture, rape and forced expulsions in Darfur province.
The standard of proof the court sought for genocide charges “was higher and more demanding than …
