Secretary-General appoints Judge Iain Bonomy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to serve as Mechanism Judge

Judge Iain Bonomy
Judge Iain Bonomy
On 6 February 2020, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres, appointed Lord Iain Bonomy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the roster of Judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (“Mechanism”), with immediate effect.

Mechanism’s President and Chief of Registry, Hague branch, present the work of the Mechanism before a Working Party of the Council of the European Union

Mechanism’s President and Chief of Registry
The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Carmel Agius and the Chief of Registry in The Hague, Mr. Michael Adenuga, on behalf of Registrar Olufemi Elias, today gave presentations on the work of the Mechanism before the Working Party on Public International Law (Working Party) of the Council of the European Union (Council of the EU) in Brussels, Belgium.

Conclusions of the meeting of prosecutors on regional co-operation in war crimes proceedings, in Sarajevo 17-19 December 2019

meeting of prosecutors on regional co-operation in war crimes proceedings, in Sarajevo 17-19 December 2019

From 17 to 19 December, the Chief Prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gordana Tadić, hosted a high-level meeting of the prosecutors from the region on co-operation in war crimes proceedings. The participants included the State Attorney of Croatia, Dražen Jelenić, the Chief War Crimes Prosecutor of Serbia, Snežana Stanojković, Prosecutor Serge Brammertz of the United Nations International Residual Mechanism, representatives of the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office of Montenegro, and of the Brčko District, district and cantonal prosecution offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Prosecutor Brammertz addresses the UN Security Council

Prosecutor Serge Brammertz
Prosecutor Serge Brammertz

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).

He began by providing an update regarding the limited number of ongoing proceedings under the Mechanism’s jurisdiction, namely the appeal in Mladić, the retrial in Stanišić and Simatović, pre-trial proceedings in the Turinabo et al. contempt case and the review proceeding in Ngirabatware.

President Agius briefs UN Security Council on progress of Mechanism’s work

Mechanism President, Judge Carmel Agius
Mechanism President, Judge Carmel Agius

The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Carmel Agius, today presented the Mechanism’s fifteenth progress report to the United Nations Security Council (Council), outlining its judicial work and other key activities during the past six months.

Mechanism hosts a study visit for journalists from the former Yugoslavia

Mechanism hosts a study visit for journalists from the former Yugoslavia

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) hosted on Tuesday, 3 December 2019 a study visit for twelve journalists from the region of the former Yugoslavia. During the visit, the journalists learned about the Mechanism and received training on how to access the Court Records Database of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

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