Trial judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have reprimanded the prosecution because of the significant new evidence they collected after the January 2012 confirmation of charges against President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and the their handling of evidence involving one of its witnesses. Yesterday, the prosecution’s handling of the evidence of witness number four were ... Continue reading
May 6, 2013
Judges decline to stop Kenyatta case – Part 1
Trial judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have declined to terminate the case against President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta as his lawyers had requested, paving the way for Kenyatta to stand trial in two months’ time. The prosecution was not spared bad news either, receiving a reprimand from the judges of Trial Chamber V for ... Continue reading
The prosecution and legal representatives of the victims in the Kenya cases do not object to moving the trials at The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) to either Arusha, Tanzania or a location within Kenya, except for one important caveat: what they say are the high security risks of such a venue change. They believe ... Continue reading
March 13, 2013
Court to determine who can withdraw charges against Muthaura
A status conference called by International Criminal Court (ICC) trial judges on Monday to address “housekeeping” matters around defense applications in the second Kenya case relating to the effect of the prosecution withdrawing a key witness ended up focusing on a prosecution notice to withdraw charges against one of the accused persons. Once ICC Prosecutor ... Continue reading
March 11, 2013
Prosecution Drops Charges Against Francis Muthaura
The Officer of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced it is dropping all charges against Francis Muthaura, the former senior Kenyan civil servant previously accused of helping to orchestrate the violence that followed Kenya’s 2007 elections. In a statement released on Monday, the prosecutor’s office said it “considers that, at this ... Continue reading
March 8, 2013
Court orders Kenyatta-Muthaura trial to start in July
On March 7, trial judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have provisionally postponed the start of the second Kenya case to give them time to consider an application the accused made to have their case sent back to the pre-trial stage. Lawyers for Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and former Public Service chief ... Continue reading
February 27, 2013
Prosecution says key witness has been compromised
International Criminal Court (ICC) judges could order the case against former Public Service Chief Francis Kirimi Muthaura be re-examined because the only witness who directly places him in meetings to allegedly plan and organize violence five years ago has been compromised. ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said she did not object to the case being referred ... Continue reading
February 14, 2013
Judges ask ICC Presidency to appoint second chamber for Kenya cases
International Criminal Court (ICC) judges have asked the court’s president to appoint a second set of judges to handle the two Kenya cases so that the upcoming trials are better managed and are conducted faster. Presiding Judge Kuniko Ozaki said Trial Chamber V, which is responsible for both Kenya cases, has been in communication with ... Continue reading
September 20, 2012
Prosecution names individuals who helped accused in second Kenya case
The document updating the charges against Kenya’s deputy prime minister and a former top bureaucrat has the names of some of the individuals who worked under them and allegedly helped them commit the crimes against humanity they are charged with. The names are redacted in the public version of the amended document containing the charges ... Continue reading
July 10, 2012
Kenyan trials at the ICC set for April next year
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has decided the trials of four prominent Kenyans will start next year in April, at least one month after the country’s General Elections are scheduled to be held. The judges of Trial Chamber V did not refer to the elections in their decisions issued on Monday, even though the prosecution ... Continue reading