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Posts published in December 2011

Callixte Mbarushimana Released from ICC Custody

Callixte Mbarushimana was surrendered to the custody of the ICC by French authorities on 25 January 2011, in accordance with the warrant of arrest delivered against him on 28 September 2010 by Pre-Trial Chamber I. In the document containing the charges, the Prosecutor charged Mr Mbarushimana with five counts of crimes against humanity (murder, inhumane acts, rape, torture, and persecution) and eight counts of war crimes (attacking civilians, murder, mutilation, cruel treatment, rape, torture, destruction of property and pillaging). In their decision of 16 December 2011 the Majority of the Chamber, comprising Judge Sylvia Steiner and Judge Cuno Tarfusser, found…