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UN Secretary-General appoints Mr. Abubacarr Marie Tambadou as Registrar of the Mechanism
Arusha, The Hague, 2 Jul 2020
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced his appointment of Mr. Abubacarr Marie Tambadou of the Republic of The Gambia as the new Registrar of the Mechanism, effective 1 July 2020.
UN Secretary-General reappoints Judge Carmel Agius as Mechanism President and renews terms of Mechanism Judges
Arusha, The Hague, 30 Jun 2020
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Judge Carmel Agius to a second term of office as President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), with effect from 1 July...
Read moreUN Security Council reappoints Prosecutor Serge Brammertz and completes review of Mechanism’s progress of work
Arusha, The Hague, 26 Jun 2020
The United Nations Security Council, by resolution 2529 (2020), yesterday reappointed Prosecutor Serge Brammertz to a new term as Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), with...
Read moreVideo Lecture Programme on ICTY legacy concludes with a talk by Registrar Elias
The Hague, 17 Jun 2020
The first cycle of the Inter-University Video Lecture Programme (Programme) “International Law and Facts Established before the ICTY” concluded today with a lecture delivered by Mr. Olufemi Elias, Registrar of the...
Read moreMultidisciplinary volume on ICTY legacy published today by Oxford University Press
The Hague, 10 Jun 2020
Today, Oxford University Press released a book entitled Legacies of the International...
Read morePresident Agius briefs UN Security Council on progress of Mechanism’s work
Arusha, The Hague, 8 Jun 2020
The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Carmel Agius, today presented the Mechanism’s sixteenth progress report to the United Nations Security Council (Council) by...
Read moreProsecutor Serge Brammertz addresses the United Nations Security Council
Arusha, The Hague, 8 Jun 2020
Prosecutor Serge Brammertz of the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) today addressed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Mechanism Prosecutor Serge Brammertz confirms the death of fugitive Augustin Bizimana
Arusha, The Hague, 22 May 2020
The Mechanism Office of the Prosecutor confirms today the death of Augustin Bizimana, one of the major fugitives alleged to have been a senior leader of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. This confirmation is based...
Read moreMechanism fugitive Félicien Kabuga arrested today
Arusha, The Hague, 16 May 2020
Today, Félicien Kabuga – one of the world’s most wanted fugitives who is alleged to have been a leading figure in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda – was arrested in Paris by French authorities as the result of a...
Read moreProsecutor Brammertz meets with War Crimes Prosecutor of Serbia
The Hague, 13 May 2020
On Tuesday, 12 May 2020, Mechanism Chief Prosecutor, Serge Brammertz held a telephone meeting with Snezana Stanojkovic, War Crimes Prosecutor of Serbia, as part of preparations for his regular biannual report to the UN...
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