Answers Needed in Eldoret
Elizabeth Evenson is a senior international justice counsel at Human Rights Watch. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Open Society Justice...
View ArticleICC Prosecutor Asks Court to Admit as Evidence Statements of Witnesses Who...
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has applied to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the statements of witnesses who have since recanted them or refused to testify to be admitted as evidence against...
View ArticleRuto and Sang Lawyers Say Prosecution Needs to Prove Beyond Reasonable Doubt...
Defense lawyers have argued the prosecution needs to prove beyond reasonable doubt allegations of witness bribery and intimidation before the International Criminal Court (ICC) can consider whether to...
View ArticleAppeals Chamber to Decide whether to Refer Kenya to ICC Membership for...
On Wednesday, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court will announce its decision on whether to refer Kenya to the ICC’s membership for not honoring its obligations and cooperating with...
View ArticleAppeals Chamber Reverses Trial Chamber’s Decision to Not Refer Kenya to ASP
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has reversed the decision of Trial Chamber V(b) not to refer Kenya to the ICC’s membership for failure to comply with requests from the...
View ArticleICC Admits Statements of Five Witnesses as Evidence Against Ruto and Sang
Trial judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have allowed statements of five witnesses who recanted them in court or failed to testify to be admitted as evidence against Deputy President...
View ArticleBarasa Opens Second Challenge against ICC Arrest Warrant
Former Kenyan journalist Walter Osapiri Barasa has opened a second challenge against an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued in connection with bribery allegations involving...
View ArticleWho Are the Witnesses in the Second Kenya Bribery Case at the ICC? – Part 1
This is the first instalment of a three-part series on the arrest warrant recently made public implicating a Kenyan lawyer and another Kenyan individual in connection with bribery allegations involving...
View ArticleWho Are the Witnesses in the Second Kenya Bribery Case at the ICC? – Part 2
This is the second instalment of a three-part series on the arrest warrant recently made public implicating a Kenyan lawyer and another Kenyan individual in connection with bribery allegations...
View ArticleWho are the Witnesses in the Second Kenya Bribery Case at the ICC? – Part 3
This is the third instalment of a three-part series on the arrest warrant recently made public implicating a Kenyan lawyer and another Kenyan individual in connection with bribery allegations involving...
View ArticleTrial Judges Issued Decisions on Witness Allegations in Ruto and Sang Trial...
By the time Kenyan legislators petitioned the recently concluded Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to order an independent audit of how the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) selected witnesses for its...
View ArticleChamber to Hear Submissions on “No Case to Answer” Motion in Ruto and Sang Trial
This week, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) will receive oral submissions on whether the prosecution has presented sufficient evidence to compel Deputy President William Samoei Ruto and...
View ArticleProsecution Argues It Has Presented Sufficient Evidence against Ruto and Sang
A senior prosecutor told the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Jan. 12 that its evidence showed Deputy President William Samoei Ruto hosted and led or was represented in six meetings to plan the...
View ArticleSang’s Lawyer Says Broadcast Ban Made It Impossible for his Client to Incite...
Former journalist Joshua arap Sang could not have incited violence or helped coordinate attacks using his radio show as the prosecution have alleged because of a ban on live broadcasts imposed by the...
View ArticleLawyer Says Prosecution Failed to Prove Ruto’s Involvement in Violence
The lead lawyer for Deputy President William Samoei Ruto told the International Criminal Court (ICC) that the prosecution has failed to prove Ruto was involved in the violence that followed the...
View ArticleIssue of Standard of Proof Dominates Final Day of “No Case to Answer” Hearings
The issue of what standard of proof judges should use when considering defense applications for the acquittal of Deputy President William Samoei Ruto and former journalist Joshua arap Sang dominated...
View ArticleRuto and Sang Defense Want Trial Chamber Decision on Witness Statements Reversed
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to announce on Friday its decision on whether statements five witnesses gave to prosecution investigators can be used as evidence in...
View ArticleAppeals Chamber Reverses Decision on Witness Statements
The top chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has determined that previously recorded statements of five prosecution witnesses who recanted those statements or failed to show up in court...
View ArticleTrial Chamber Will Take Time to Reach Decision on “No Case to Answer”...
This year two decisions have been eagerly awaited in the trial of the International Criminal Court (ICC) trial of Deputy President William Samoei Ruto and former journalist Joshua arap Sang. One has...
View ArticleICC Terminates the Case against Ruto and Sang
Trial judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have terminated the case against Kenya’s Deputy President William Samoei Ruto and former journalist Joshua arap Sang. Trial Chamber V(a) decided...
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