Hague court to announce verdict on South Africa's failure to arrest Sudan's Bashir

Record ID: 898154

  • Title: Hague court to announce verdict on South Africa's failure to arrest Sudan's Bashir
  • Date: 5th July 2017
  • Summary: DARFUR, SUDAN (FILE - JULY 24, 2008) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) BASHIR STEPPING DOWN FROM PLANE BASHIR STANDING IN BACK OF VAN WAVING TO CROWD ARMY HELICOPTER FLYING OVER CROWD BASHIR ADDRESSING CROWD VARIOUS OF CROWD CHEERING AND DANCING BASHIR DANCING AND WAVING STICK CHEERING CROWD SURROUNDING BASHIR'S PLATFORM
  • Embargoed: 19th July 2017 13:25
  • Keywords: Hague ICC court verdict Sudan president Bashir South Africa
  • Location: THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS / JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA / KHARTOUM, DARFUR, SULEIA AND KONDOBE, SUDAN
  • City: THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS / JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA / KHARTOUM, DARFUR, SULEIA AND KONDOBE, SUDAN
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions
  • Reuters ID: LVA0076OFVQRR
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:The International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to give a verdict on Thursday (July 6) regarding South Africa's failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accused of genocide and war crimes, when he visited the country for an African Union summit in June 2015.
    The Hague-based ICC issued arrest warrants for Bashir in 2009 and 2010, accusing him of masterminding genocide and other atrocities in his campaign to crush a revolt in Sudan's western Darfur region. Bashir denies the charges.
    In June 2015, Bashir was forced to flee South Africa, a member of the ICC, after a court ruled he should be banned from leaving pending the outcome of a hearing on his possible arrest.
    In March, South Africa's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the government against a ruling that said the state had made an error in letting Bashir leave the country despite a court order.
    Bashir, who has ruled Sudan since a 1989 Islamist and army-backed coup, rejects the ICC's authority and has flouted the warrant before, travelling inside the Middle East and Africa.
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