Mechanism launches Unified Court Records database
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) today launched a new Unified Court Records database (UCR), which for the first time brings together all public judicial records of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Mechanism.
30 August marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
The conflicts in the former Yugoslavia led to the disappearance of over 35000 people. While approximately 25000 cases have been resolved, the families of over 10,000 missing persons are still searching for their loved ones, more than two decades after the conflicts. The search for the remaining missing is a humanitarian imperative, and an obligation to the families.
The Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals hears oral arguments in the Mladić case
The Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), composed of Judge Prisca Matimba Nyambe, presiding, Judge Aminatta Lois Runeni N’gum, Judge Gberdao Gustave Kam, Judge Seymour Panton, and Judge Elizabeth Ibanda-Nahamya heard yesterday and today oral arguments in the appeals filed by Mr. Ratko Mladić and the Prosecution against the judgement rendered on 22 November 2017 by the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Ratko Mladić appeal hearing taking place on 25 and 26 August 2020: Practical information and case background
The appeal hearing in the case of Prosecutor v. Ratko Mladić before the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (“Mechanism”) will take place on Tuesday, 25 August 2020 and Wednesday, 26 August 2020 in Courtroom I of the Mechanism's Hague branch, pursuant to the “Decision on the Scheduling of the Appeal Hearing and a Status Conference” issued by the Mechanism's Appeals Chamber on 17 July 2020.
IRMCT Principals’ Joint Statement: International Criminal Justice Day on 17 July 2020
Mechanism marks twenty-five years since the Srebrenica genocide
UN Secretary-General appoints Mr. Abubacarr Marie Tambadou as Registrar of the Mechanism
UN Secretary-General reappoints Judge Carmel Agius as Mechanism President and renews terms of Mechanism Judges
UN Security Council reappoints Prosecutor Serge Brammertz and completes review of Mechanism’s progress of work
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 effect from 1 July 2020 until 30 June 2022. Prosecutor Brammertz has served as Prosecutor of the Mechanism since 1 March 2016. Previously, he served as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 1 January 2008 until its closure at the end of 2017.