The Chief Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Mr. Serge Brammertz, concluded an official visit to Kigali, Rwanda from 26 to 29 January 2026, as part of the continuing cooperation between the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) and Rwandan authorities regarding the investigation and prosecution of individuals alleged to have participated in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

It is with deep sadness that the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals has learned of the passing at the end of December 2025 of Judge Stefan Trechsel of Switzerland, former Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Judge Trechsel was sworn in as an ad litem Judge of the ICTY on 7 April 2006 and served as a Judge of the Trial Chamber in the case of Prosecutor v. Jadranko Prlic et al. until the conclusion of the trial proceedings in May 2013.

Today, the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, participated in a conference entitled “Srebrenica: Three Decades of Struggle for Truth, Justice, Future”, held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

Mr. Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), participated in the annual conference of war crimes prosecutors from the Western Balkans, held this year in Brijuni, Croatia, from 2 to 4 September. The conference was organized by UNDP with the support of the European Union and the United Kingdom.

Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), Mr. Serge Brammertz, met today with a group of 30 young legal professionals from Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Sarajevo Information Centre on the ICTY. The event was organised by the Association “PRAVNIK” with the support of the Mechanism Information Programme for Affected Communities (MIP).

The Chief Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Mr. Serge Brammertz, concluded an official visit to Kigali, Rwanda from 05 to 09 May 2025, as part of the continuing cooperation between the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) and Rwandan authorities regarding the investigation and prosecution of individuals alleged to have participated in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, today issued the following statement in honour of International Women’s Day 2025:

Today, the Appeals Chamber composed of Judge Graciela Gatti Santana (Uruguay), presiding, Judge Jean-Claude Antonetti (France), Judge Burton Hall (The Bahamas), Judge Aminatta Lois Runeni N'gum (Gambia), and Judge Seon Ki Park (South Korea) orally pronounced its judgement on review in the case of Prosecutor v. Gérard Ntakirutimana, Case No. MICT-12-17-R.

Mr. Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, has concluded an official visit to Kigali, Rwanda from 4 to 9 November 2024, as part of preparations for his regular biannual report to the United Nations Security Council.

The Prosecutor had high-level meetings with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe, the Secretary-General of the National Intelligence and Security Service, Mr. Aimable Havugiyaremye, and the Prosecutor General, Angélique Habyarimana.

The inaugural mission of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), in relation to monitoring the proceedings of the Šešelj et al. case, concluded today in Belgrade, Serbia. This multi-day mission, conducted by the Officer-in-Charge of the Mechanism Registry's Hague Branch, Mr. Samuel Algozin, and the appointed Monitor, Mr. Brent Hicks, focused on introducing the Monitor, in preparation for the start of the proceedings of the referred case.