TT judge elected to International Criminal Court
Justice Althea Alexis-Windsor - FILE PHOTO
HIGH COURT judge Justice Althea Alexis-Windsor has been elected to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for 2021-2030.
She was one of six judges elected after eight rounds of voting which began on December 18.
There were six vacancies at the court.
Alexis-Windsor was elected in the eighth round with 86 of the 118 votes. She surpassed her rival from Tunisia, Haykel Ben Mahfoudh. Judges who are nominated to the ICC have experience either litigating or adjudicating cases before the International Criminal Tribunals and the ICC itself.
Every candidate for election to the court is also required to have established competence in criminal law and procedure, the necessary experience in criminal proceedings, whether as a judge, prosecutor or advocate, or have established competence in relevant areas of international law such as international humanitarian law and the law of human rights.
Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs senator Amery Browne - Jeff Mayers
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne on Wednesday admitted the competition for the election of one of six judges to the International Criminal Court (ICC) this time around was difficult.
In a post on his Facebook page, Dr Browne said, “The process was much more difficult this time around, and the competition from some much larger countries was intense. But due to the strength of our candidate, and due to the negotiating skill of some of our nation s best Foreign Service diplomats, we were able to prevail.”
On Wednesday, Justice Althea Alexis-Windsor was elected an ICC judge to fill one of six vacancies at the court, which sits in The Hague (Netherlands).
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The South African government has received a blistering public rebuke from an international war crimes prosecutor for allowing one of the worst perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide to escape from South Africa in 2018 and for continuing to frustrate international efforts to track him down.
Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), told the UN Security Council in New York on Monday 14 December that South African authorities had refused even to place Fulgence Kayishema, a fugitive from the tribunal, under provisional arrest, when tribunal investigators traced him to Cape Town two years ago. This was despite an international United Nations warrant for his arrest which all UN members were obliged to implement. Nor had Pretoria even placed him under surveillance. As a result, he escaped from South Africa a year ago and has yet not been found.
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image captionFélicien Kabuga, once one of Rwanda s richest men, used 28 aliases to evade capture
France s top appeals court has agreed to extradite the alleged financier of the Rwandan genocide, Félicien Kabuga, to face trial in Tanzania.
Mr Kabuga, in his 80s, was arrested in May at his home outside Paris after 26 years on the run.
Some 800,000 people were killed in the 1994 genocide.
Mr Kabuga is alleged to have funnelled money to militia groups as chairman of the national defence fund. He denies all the charges.
During a court appearance in May, he described the accusations as lies .