Building on initial concerns about the ICC’s approach to evidence in the Bemba et al. Appeals Chamber judgment, Chiara Loiero, Legal Assistant at Amnesty International’s Centre for International Justice, criticizes the ICC’s emerging practice of deferring any consideration on admission of evidence until deliberating the judgment.
Legal Adviser Jonathan O’Donohue provides an initial reaction to last Thursday’s summary judgment by the ICC Appeals Chamber confirming the conviction of five persons for offences against the administration of justice in the Bemba case.
Chiara Loiero, Legal Assistant at Amnesty International’s Centre for International Justice, considers the ICC Appeals Chamber’s recent decision to reject Laurent Gbagbo’s notice of appeal against Trial Chamber I’s latest refusal to grant him interim release during his trial.
Today’s heart-breaking decision to keep our colleague in jail is yet another travesty of justice. We will not stop repeating #FreeTaner.
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'That fundamental inability to understand immigrants as people who stay and contribute, rather than as people who come and take, remains a central obstacle to any meaningful debate about immigration' @garyyounge
#ICC Pre-Trial Chamber invites authorities of #Myanmar to submit amicus brief in relation to Prosecution request for advisory ruling as to whether it has jurisdiction to investigate alleged crime of deportation of Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh https://t.co/ArTZrksJlQ
