International Criminal Justice

At a glance: Africans in front of the ICC

More than 20 Africans are currently on the prosecution list of the International criminal court in The Hague. Two sentences have been spoken, many of the Wanted are not yet published even before the court.

Côte d’ivoire

Laurent Gbagbo – The former President of ivory coast since November 2011, in custody in The Hague. Since the 28. January 2016 is a former head of state, with Gbagbo for the first Time before the court.
He is said to have committed crimes against humanity. In Côte d’ivoire erupted after the 2010 elections Chaos. The indictment accuses him for the murder of at least 166 people, rape, ill-treatment and persecution of hundreds of political opponents responsible.

Against the then-First Lady Simone Gbagbo and former youth Minister, Charles Blé Goudé stands for the same charge. Simone Gbagbo is in your home country under Arrest, The Hague demanding their extradition. Goudé has been transferred in March 2014 to the ICC. His case will be negotiated with the charges against Gbagbo.

Democratic Republic Of The Congo

Thomas Lubanga is the first African, who was sentenced in The Hague

Thomas Lubanga Dyilo – a former rebel-in-chief of the militia of the “Patriotic forces for the liberation of the Congo” (FPLC) was in March 2012 due to the recruitment of child soldiers in Eastern Congo
sentenced to 14 years in prison. On 1. December 2014 the verdict was upheld in an appeals procedure.

Germain Katanga – As the leader of the rebel group, “forces of Patriotic resistance in Ituri” (FRPI), Katanga, for his participation in a massacre in February 2003 in Eastern Congo, found guilty, and in may 2014, to twelve years imprisonment.

Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui – the leader of The National integration Front (FNI) in the Eastern Congo was a co-accused of Germain Katanga, but it was in December of 2012 for lack of Evidence
acquitted.

Bosco Ntaganda is The leader of a militia “the national Congress for the defence of the people” (CNDP) since 2013 is in custody, after he
himself had made. Him are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the conflict in the Ituri province. Later, he spread as the commander of the M23 militia in Eastern Congo, fear and terror. The process has begun in September 2015. Ntaganda pleads not guilty.

Sylvestre Mudacumura – The alleged commander-in-chief of the rebel group, the “democratic forces for the liberation of Rwanda” (FDLR), nine war crimes, including rape, torture and murder.

The violence in Kenya after the 2007 elections to have Kenyatta, Ruto, and Sang with egged

Kenya

Kenya’s Deputy President William Samoei Ruto and radio presenter Joshua Arap Sang must of the charges of responsibility for murder, deportation and persecution during post-election unrest in 2007/2008. The Process
running since September 2013. Ruto allowed to participate via Video-connection of Kenya to the procedure.

Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta – The President of the country was for complicity in crimes against humanity during post-election unrest in 2007/2008 accused. Due to lack of Evidence the case was closed on 05.12.2014. The Problem for the prosecution was that in the course of time, more and more witnesses against Kenyatta have withdrawn. It is believed that they were brought about by bribery or threats.

Ruto and Kenyatta, the most important politician in Kenya

Walter Osapiri Barasa , Against the journalists was in the October 2013 arrest warrant issued. Barasa is said to have influenced, in cooperation with government officials, Kenyan witnesses in the trial against Kenyatta and Ruto. The arrest warrant against Barasa is the first to influence the witnesses.

In September 2015, the world criminal court known that the jobber Philip Kipkoech bed , and the lawyer Paul Gicheru since March, an arrest warrant sought. Both are said to have played a Central role in the bribery of witnesses in the trial against Deputy President William Samoei Ruto. The Kenyan police took the two to the 30. July 2015 in Nairobi.

Libya

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi The son of Muammar Gaddafi, stands in court in their own country, Libya does not want him to The Hague to deliver. There, he is accused of complicity in murder and persecution during the Revolution in Libya.

Mali

In January 2013, ICC chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced an investigation into war crimes in Mali, which took place during the fighting between Islamist rebels in the North of the country and the Malian army. Since January of 2016, with Ahmad Al-Faqi al-Mahdi, an Islamist Jihadist on trial in The Hague. In the pre-trial, it is decided whether against the member of the Islam books and is known group “Ansar Dine”, the indictment for war crimes.

Sudan

During a summit visit by Sudan’s President Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir in South Africa in June 2015, had the Supreme court in Pretoria, Al-Bashir should South Africa not leave until the judge’s extradition to the ICC final tested. The country is obliged to be a signatory to the ICC Statute and by contract, the warrants of the court in The Hague. A decision of the court.

Because Al-Bashir was not willing to cooperate with the ICC, had the court in December 2014, the investigation against him and six other defendants should be held accountable for crimes in the conflict region of Darfur before the court. Many of the other States to ignore the arrest warrant and al-Bashir unmolested to the country. The lack of political support by the world community, let your “no choice, as the investigations in Darfur to freeze,” said chief Prosecutor Bensouda in her statement of reasons.

The proceedings against the Minister, Ahmad Muhammad Harun and Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein as well as against the alleged leader of the Janjaweed militia , Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, were not yet opened, because the defendants are not yet to The Hague.

Two accused rebel leader from Darfur is a, Saleh Jerbo, as deceased. When the process against the second, Abdallah Banda, begins, is open. Banda was released after his charge voluntarily before the court.

Uganda

LRA chief Joseph Kony has still not been taken

Joseph Kony, Vincent Otti, Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen – Against the
The leader of the Ugandan rebel group “Lord’s Resistance Army” (LRA), and three other commanders, has adopted the ICC’s 2005 arrest warrants. The LRA is in the Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic.

Dominic Ongwen has been in the beginning of January 2015, US troops in the Central African Republic. Uganda has Ongwen to the ICC
shipped, the process has not yet begun.

In February 2014, the wanted LRA leader, Okot Odhiambo died in a battle with the Ugandan army. In June 2015, his death was confirmed by DNA analysis, the prosecution withdrew the arrest warrant.

Central African Republic

Jean-Pierre Bemba – The trial against the former Vice-President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo began in 2010. Bemba must be held accountable for acts of violence in his rebel army in the Central African Republic in 2002 and 2003. As head of the Congolese liberation movement MLC had him by the President of neighboring Central African Republic is called to help his country in a military coup to fend off. At the end of 2013, a further charge was added. Together with his lawyer Aimé] Musamba and three other agents he is wrong evidence is presented and witnesses are influenced.