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The confirmation hearing in the case The Prosecutor v. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman is scheduled to open on 24 May 2021 at 9:30 (The Hague local time) before Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Pre-Trial Chamber II is composed of Judge Rosario Salvatore Aitala (Presiding judge), Judge Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua and Judge Tomoko Akane.
The hearing is scheduled from 24 to 27 May 2021 in Courtroom III. The Prosecutor, the Defence, the Office of Public Counsel for the Victims and the joint Legal representatives of the victims will make oral submissions before the judges to present their arguments on the merits.
The purpose of the confirmation of charges hearing is to determine whether there is sufficient evidence to establish substantial grounds to believe that the person committed each of the crimes charged. If the charges are confirmed, the case will be transferred to a Trial Chamber, which will conduct the subsequent phase of the proceedings: the
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Mahamat Said Abdel Kani appears virtually before the International Criminal Court on Friday. (Photo by ICC-CPI)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) After a rocky technical start, a militia leader from the Central African Republic made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court on Friday.
Mahamat Said Abdel Kani turned himself in last week to the world’s only permanent court for atrocity crimes, where he faces charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes for commanding the predominantly Muslim rebels known as the Seleka, who overthrew the president of the Central African Republic, or CAR, in 2013.
Originally scheduled for Thursday morning, the hearing had to be moved until Friday due to technical issues. Said appeared, wearing a wrinkled blue and white striped shirt, by video link from the Scheveningen prison in The Hague, where he is being held.