June 16th, 2010 by Steven Kay QC
In all the public pronouncements on the Kenya situation (and there have been many) from OCAMPO, and other agencies as revealed below by Mme Pillay, there seems to be a striking lack of legal thought from parties that are supposed to respect legal procedures.
There is a clear threshold test that has to be met in [...]
May 7th, 2010 by Deirdre Montgomery
ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is due to travel to Kenya tomorrow to lead investigations into the violence that broke out following the December 2007 general elections. It is estimated that 1,300 people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in the weeks after the results of general elections were disputed.
As reported in [...]
March 10th, 2010 by Cathy Mac Daid
Last week the Prosecutor at the ICC provided Judges with a list of 20 suspects in the 2007-2008 Kenyan election violence. On 3 March 2010, ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo provided Judges at the ICC with a list of 20 names of persons alleged to bear the gravest responsibility for the post-election violence in Kenya in 2007 [...]
February 22nd, 2010 by Cathy Mac Daid
On 18 February 2010 the judges of Pre-Trial Chamber II at the ICC requested the Prosecutor to provide clarification and additional information in the process of assessing whether or not to authorise the Prosecutor to commence an investigation with regard to the situation in the Republic of Kenya.
On 26 November 2009, the Prosecutor [...]
November 9th, 2009 by Cathy Mac Daid
Last week the Presidency of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a decision assigning the situation in the Republic of Kenya to Pre-Trial Chamber II. The Presidency had received from the Prosecutor a letter, dated 5 November, 2009, indicating its intention to submit a request for the authorisation of an investigation into that situation considering [...]
October 1st, 2009 by Cathy Mac Daid
In a press-release yesterday, 30th September, the ICC Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, reiterated his resolve to address the post-election violence of early 2008 with the Kenyan leaders and to prevent recurring violence through what he referred to as a three-pronged approach – the ICC prosecuting those most responsible; national accountability proceedings as defined by the Kenyan [...]