Banda case: Appeals judgement on arrest warrant to be delivered on 3 March 2015
Situation: Darfur (Sudan)
Case: The Prosecutor v. Abdallah Banda Abaker Nourain
On 3 March 2015, at 10:30 (The Hague local time), the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will deliver, in open court, its judgment on the appeal against the
Warrant of arrest issued by Trial Chamber IV for Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain.
Background: On 11 September 2014, Trial Chamber IV issued an arrest warrant against Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain. The Chamber also vacated the trial date - previously scheduled for 18 November 2014 - and directed the ICC Registry to transmit the new requests for arrest and surrender to any State, including the Sudan, on whose territory Mr Banda may be found. On 18 September 2014, the Defence requested the Chamber's authorisation to appeal the decision on the arrest warrant, which was authorised by Trial Chamber IV on 19 December 2014.
Abdallah Banda faces three charges of war crimes (violence to life in the form of murder, whether committed or attempted; intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission; and pillaging). These crimes were allegedly committed in an attack carried out on 29 September 2007, against African Union Peacekeeping Mission in Sudan, at the Haskanita Military Group Site, in the Umm Kadada locality of North Darfur, Sudan. While the case initially involved Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus, Trial Chamber IV terminated the proceedings against him on 4 October 2013, upon receiving evidence pointing towards his death.
For further information on the case, click here.
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