Tag Archives: impartiality

ECHR: Ahorugeze: Court Gives Green Light to an Extradition to Rwanda

2011-10-27, Strasbourg, France. The European Court of Human Rights held that an extradition of Sylvere Ahorugeze, a Rwandan national of Hutu ethnicity,  to Rwanda to face genocide charges will neither violate the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, nor his right to a fair trial.   The Chamber found that: there was no evidence [...]
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ECCC: Khieu: The Chamber Finds No Abuse of Process Arises From Failing to Translate Documents, 3-Year Delay to Start Trial and Lack of Access to the Court File. The Chamber Promises to Address the Principle of Legality Later in Other Cases

2011-01-12, Phnom Penh. The Chamber found the Accused application for stay of proceedings for abuse of process inadmissible. Grounds in the Application: (1) problems related to the translation of documents: - no translation of some documents – footnotes of the Closing Order, some of the evidentiary material, the Final Submission, 232 decisions and 3,850 documents [...]
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ICTY: Seselj: Evidence of the Destruction of Cultural Heritage Admitted into Evidence

2010-04-14, The Hague, The Netherlands. The Chamber granted, in part, a request of the OTP to admit a Report of Andras Riedlmayer with annexes, exhibits and photographs. Statement of Law factors for determining whether to admit documents into evidence: prima facie relevance, reliability and probative value of the evidence; a final assessment of the evidence [...]
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