The Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT or Mechanism), Abubacarr M. Tambadou, today officiated over a handover ceremony marking the closure of the United Nations Detention Facility (UNDF) and return of the grounds to the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania. The Registrar was joined by high-level officials from the Government of Tanzania, senior Mechanism officials and longtime stakeholders such as the International Committee of the Red Cross.  

The Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), composed of Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, presiding, Judge Lee G. Muthoga, Judge Aminatta Lois Runeni N’gum, Judge Yusuf Aksar, and Judge Claudia Hoefer, heard yesterday and today oral arguments in the appeals filed by Mr. Jovica Stanišić, Mr. Franko Simatović, and the Prosecution against the judgement pronounced on 30 June 2021, and filed in writing on 6 August 2021, by the Trial Chamber of the Mechanism.

The accreditation procedure is now open for those wishing to attend the hearing of the appeals in the case of Prosecutor v. Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović on Tuesday and Wednesday, 24 and 25 January 2023 at 10:00 CET in Courtroom 1 of the Hague branch of the Mechanism.

The Registrar of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Abubacarr M. Tambadou, today opened the second semester of the fourth cycle of the Inter-University Video Lecture Programme (Programme), “International Law and Facts Established before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)”, with a lecture on the role and functions of the Mechanism for law students from across the countries of the former Yugoslavia.

The accreditation procedure is now closed for those wishing to attend the hearing of the appeals in the case of Prosecutor v. Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović on Tuesday and Wednesday, 24 and 25 January 2023 at 10:00 CET in Courtroom 1 of the Hague branch of the Mechanism.

The Mechanism is mourning the loss of Judge Elizabeth Ibanda-Nahamya of Uganda who died in the Netherlands on 5 January 2023.

At the request of the family, Judge Ibanda-Nahamya’s coffin will be placed on view at the Mechanism’s Hague branch on Thursday, 12 January 2023 between 11a.m. and 2p.m. 

The funeral for Judge Ibanda-Nahamya will be held at a later stage in her home country of Uganda.

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Mechanism Judge Elizabeth Ibanda-Nahamya of Uganda on 5 January 2023.

Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), today addressed the United Nations Security Council about the work of the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP).

The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, today presented the Mechanism’s twenty-first progress report to the United Nations Security Council (Council) in New York. This was President Gatti Santana’s first address to the Council since she assumed office on 1 July 2022.

From Monday, 28 November to Wednesday, 30 November 2022, the Judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) will be holding an in-person Plenary Session at the Seat of the Mechanism in The Hague, Netherlands. This is the Mechanism’s third in-person Plenary Session, with the last one conducted in 2019 at the Arusha branch.