The Prosecution and the lawyer for victims in the second Kenya case before the International Criminal Court (ICC) have said that they have no objection to judges postponing setting a trial date, a delay which defence lawyers have requested for. The defense teams for Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and former Head of Public ... Continue reading
International Criminal Court (ICC) trial judges have called lawyers involved in the cases of four prominent Kenyans charged with crimes against humanity for meetings next month to begin preliminary work on their trials, ending months of speculation about when the trial process would start. Trial Chamber V has called the legal teams for meetings at ... Continue reading
Please find the below article written by Allan Ngari, Project Leader dealing with Kenya and International Justice at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Open Society Justice Initiative. There has been a fair amount of jostling around by the ... Continue reading
Four Kenyan appeals court judges declared unfit for office
A board vetting Kenya judges sent a clear message when it declared four of the country’s senior most judges not fit to serve on the bench: bending the law in favor of the powerful or wealthy will no longer be tolerated. The Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board determined on Wednesday that the four judges, who ... Continue reading
ICC names judges to handle Kenya trials
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Presidency has named a Belgian judge with a decades-long background in academia, a Japanese judge with a background in diplomacy and international law, and an experienced Nigerian prosecutor to form a three-person bench that will try the Kenya cases at the ICC. The Presidency of the ICC announced on Thursday ... Continue reading
Judges decline to grant Kenyan accused leave to appeal
Four prominent Kenyans are one step closer to going to trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) after judges refused to allow them to appeal a January decision that they should be tried for crimes against humanity. The Pre-Trial Chamber’s majority decision followed an earlier one by the Appeals Chamber not to grant a request to ... Continue reading
Kenyan court says AG can continue with appeal against Bashir warrant
Kenya’s second highest court has allowed the Attorney General to continue with an appeal case he has filed challenging a High Court ruling that the Kenyan government must arrest Sudan’s leader if he comes to the country. A three-man bench of the Court of Appeal made the decision in response to a preliminary objection against ... Continue reading
Poll: Kenyans almost split in half over ICC accused’s presidential bids
Should Kenyan leaders Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and William Samoei Ruto pursue their presidential ambitions despite facing a possible trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC)? The Kenyan public is almost split in half on the issue, according to a new poll. Furthermore, almost half of those polled believe that nothing will happen if either individual ... Continue reading
A significant majority of Kenyans are satisfied with the decision the International Criminal Court (ICC) has made to send four high profile Kenyans to trial, a finding that goes counter to the sentiments some senior politicians have expressed in the past two weeks. In the first opinion poll to be released since ICC pre-trial judges made ... Continue reading
At his first press conference after International Criminal Court (ICC) judges confirmed charges against four of six prominent Kenyans for alleged crimes committed in Kenya during the post election violence of 2007 and 2008, ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has described reactions of the suspects, government, and people of Kenya to the confirmation decision as remarkable. ... Continue reading