International Justice Monitor Closing its Kenya Trial Monitoring
Dear Readers, International Justice Monitor, a project of Open Society Justice Initiative, will no longer be monitoring or providing updates on International Criminal Court (ICC) proceedings relating...
View ArticleKenyan Court Awards Four SGBV Survivors Four Million Shillings
The Kenyan High Court has awarded four million Kenyan shillings to each of four survivors of sexual violence committed during political violence in Kenya 12 years ago. Judge Weldon Korir said on...
View ArticleICC Prosecutor Says She Had No Role in Kenyan Lawyer’s Surrender
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has said her office played no role in Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru unexpectedly surrendering last week, five years after an ICC arrest...
View ArticleKenyan Court finds Government is Liable for Harm Suffered by Three Victims of...
The High Court Judge Fred Ochieng has found that the Kenyan government is liable for failing to protect and address the concerns of three people who alleged they or a relative of theirs were victims...
View ArticleIn Kenya, We are Late: Delayed Justice and Impunity for Election-Related...
I was late. I was fumbling with the keys on my laptop as I rushed to connect to the virtual court session. Courts in Kenya were now holding online sessions because of restrictions put in place to...
View ArticleKenyan Judge to Set Judgement Date in SGBV Case in June
High Court of Kenya Judge Weldon Korir has said that in less than a month’s time he will set a judgement date for a petition filed by survivors of sexual and gender-based violence that occurred during...
View ArticleExperts Say OTP Did Not Follow the Evidence in Collapsed Kenya Cases
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has made public the summary of an external experts’ report of how the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) handled one of the most high profile...
View ArticlePolice Shootings Petition Moves to Submissions Stage
Three witnesses told the Kenyan High Court about documenting some of the deaths that occurred during the violence that followed the 2007 presidential election and what happened to them or a relative...
View ArticleParties Fail to Reach a Settlement; Hearings Continue in Kenya Police...
Three witnesses will testify in March next year on the issue of liability in a case involving 15 victims of police shootings in Kenya during a period of violence following the 2007 Kenyan presidential...
View ArticleFirst Witness Testifies in Case Filed by Survivors of Kenya Police Shootings
The Kenyan High Court heard the first witness in a petition filed five years ago involving 15 people who were victims of police shootings during the violence that followed the December 2007 General...
View ArticleKenyan Judge Says ICC Erred in Issuing Arrest Warrant for Two Kenyans Wanted...
A Kenyan High Court judge has said a judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) erred in issuing an arrest warrant for two Kenyans wanted by the ICC for offenses against the administration of...
View ArticleSenior Prosecutor Says Kenya Unwilling to Prosecute Two Kenyans Wanted by ICC
A senior prosecutor told Kenya’s High Court that the country is unwilling to prosecute two Kenyans wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in relation to bribery allegations against them....
View ArticleLawyer Argues Kenyans Wanted by the ICC Cannot Ask for Evidence before They...
A lawyer who represented victims in one of the Kenya cases at the International Criminal Court (ICC) told the Kenyan High Court that individuals wanted by the ICC for alleged bribery cannot demand to...
View ArticleKenyan Challenges ICC Arrest Warrant Against Him
Philip Kipkoech Bett, a Kenyan wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged bribery, has challenged an ICC arrest warrant against him, arguing it lacks details of the evidence against...
View ArticleWitness Says Prosecution Never Followed Up on Sexual Crimes Allegations Made...
A senior prosecutor told Kenya’s High Court the Directorate of Public Prosecutions has never followed up on allegations of sexual crimes made to two government-appointed commissions that investigated...
View ArticleSenior Prosecutor Tells Kenyan Court About Challenges of Taking SGBV Cases to...
A senior prosecutor told the High Court of Kenya 21 sexual and gender-based violence cases were filed in court following the violence that wracked Kenya after the 2007 presidential election. Jacinta...
View ArticleLessons from Chile for Kenya: Take Heart, the Fight for Accountability is Long
The experience in Chile shows that the quest for justice has been a long one. As Kenyans come to terms with the failure of the International Criminal Court investigation and slow pace of domestic...
View ArticleKenya to be Referred to ASP for Non-Cooperation
Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have decided Kenya should be referred to the court’s membership for not cooperating with the ICC during the now-terminated case against President Uhuru...
View ArticleKenya Has No Reparations Policy, but the Constitution Does Provide Such a...
An expert witness told Kenya’s High Court the failure of a sexual violence victim to report what happened to them does not invalidate their right to reparations. Betty Murungi testified on Friday...
View ArticleSexual Violence Victims Do Not Always Speak Immediately About Their Assault,...
Victims of sexual violence may not want to speak immediately about what they have gone through, a witness told the Kenyan High Court during a hearing into a petition filed by survivors of sexual and...
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