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ICC judges seek more information on arrest warrant requests for Sudan rebels

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Wednesday asked the office of Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo for additional materials supporting its request for arrest warrants for rebel leaders in Sudan's Darfur region. Pre-Trial Chamber I has given Moreno-Ocampo's office until January 26 to produce supplemental information in its application for warrants for rebel leaders in connection with a September 2007 attack on African Union (AU) peacekeepers based in Haskanita that killed 10. The judges' request comes as the international community awaits a decision on whether the ICC will grant Moreno-Ocampo an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. Moreno-Ocampo hopes to charge Bashir with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and applied for a warrant in July. The Chief Prosecutor's office had been investigating Bashir since 2005, when the UN Security Council gave the ICC jurisdiction over the Darfur region through Resolution 1593.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on December 11, 2008 (boomark / email).