The Ethiopian People;
The Department of State, U.S.A.
The European Union;
The Human Rights Watch;
All people, especially international lawyers, interested in human rights.
A number of former officials of the Ethiopian military regime headed by ex-President Mengistu Hailemariam have recently been released from jail after serving several years of imprisonment in Ethiopian jails. Some of those inmates had committed horrendous crimes against humanity when they were in power during the infamous days of the Derg.(2) The controversy of the release of these criminals is likely to continue especially as they have never apologized for their crimes against the Ethiopian people.
Lawyer Gicheru In Trouble With the ICC After Newspaper Interview
22 February 2021 - 9:37 am
Paul Gicheru when he appeared before the ICC via video-link from the ICC Detention Centre on November 6, 2020
The Standard
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a warning to Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru after he was interviewed by a Kenyan newspaper on February 4.
Gicheru had been released on February 1 under strict conditions which the ICC has now canceled his interim release for violating the restrictions given to him. The chamber notes that having arrived in Kenya on February 1, Gicheru gave an interview on February 4 to a Kenyan newspaper. Therein, he made statements tangent to the current proceedings, said part of a statement by Judge Twine Adelaide Sophie Alapini Gansou.
THE STANDARD By
Paul Ogemba |
February 5th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Lawyer Paul Gicheru during an interview with The Standard at his office in Nairobi on February 04, 2021. The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday conditionally released Gicheru who is among three Kenyans facing charges of influencing witnesses in a post-election violence case that claimed over 1,000 lives in 2007-08. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]
After, three months of brushing shoulders with the world’s most dangerous convicts and indictees, lawyer Paul Gicheru quietly got back on Tuesday.
In his own words, it was not all that bad at The Hague-based International Criminal Court detention centre.