Prosecutors Luis Moreno-Ocampo and Fatou Bensouda at a past court session at the ICC in Hague, Netherlands. [File, Standard]The International Criminal Court (ICC)'s decision to withdraw and discharge the Kenyan cases with a possibility of reopening them have been declared unprocedural. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda withdrew charges against President Kenyatta and discharging his deputy William Ruto but with a window to revisit them. In Ruto’s case, the trial court discharged him but left it to the prosecutor to mull over whether to charge him afresh in future. “The provisions regulating ‘no case to answer’ should be incorporated into one of the texts of the court.

Source: Standard Digital October 01, 2020 17:01 UTC