The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Carmel Agius, today opened an exhibition at the SENSE Transitional Justice Center in Pula, Croatia, focusing on the crimes committed in Ahmići, Central Bosnia in April 1993.
Mechanism Chief Prosecutor Brammertz and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Bachelet met on Thursday in Geneva to discuss issues of mutual interest in relation to the fight against impunity for serious international crimes and gross human rights violations. Prosecutor Brammertz briefed the High Commissioner on the Mechanism OTP's work, particularly its efforts to support national post-conflict accountability efforts and build capacity in national justice sectors in the former Yugoslavia and East Africa.
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) has today released in English, French and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, a User Guide for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Court Records Database (ICR).
The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Carmel Agius, today delivered the closing remarks at the Kwibuka25 conference entitled “The Genocide against the Tutsi 25 Years On: What Lessons Has the World Learned from Rwanda in Prevention and Responses to Genocides Worldwide?” at the Peace Palace in The Hague.
At the invitation of the Minister of Justice of Serbia, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism OTP), the War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Serbia (WCPO) and the Judicial Academy of Serbia jointly delivered an important advanced training on investigating and prosecuting sexual and gender based violence for the WCPO in Belgrade from 8 to 12 April 2019. Financial support was generously provided by the European Commission.
On 8 April 2019, the President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Carmel Agius, concluded his first official visit to the Republic of Rwanda (Rwanda). The visit took place on the occasion of the 25th commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
The Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals composed of Judge Vagn Prüsse Joensen, presiding, Judge William Hussein Sekule, Judge José Ricardo de Prada Solaesa, Judge Graciela Susana Gatti Santana, and Judge Ivo Nelson de Caires Batista Rosa delivered today its judgement on the appeals filed by Mr. Radovan Karadžić and the Prosecution against the judgement rendered on 24 March 2016 by a Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (“ICTY”).
The Office of the Prosecutor is satisfied with the Appeals Chamber’s Judgment in the case Prosecutor v. Radovan Karadžić, which in the most important respects confirmed Karadžić’s convictions at trial on ten counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Appeals Chamber further granted the Prosecution’s appeal and sentenced Karadžić to life imprisonment.
Following the pronouncement of the judgment, Prosecutor Serge Brammertz said:
