Al Bashir Case

The Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir

ICC-02/05-01/09

The first warrant for arrest for Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir was issued on 4 March 2009, the second on 12 July 2010. The suspect is still at large.

Next steps: Until Omar Al Bashir is arrested and transferred to the seat of the Court in The Hague, the case will remain in the Pre-Trial stage. The ICC does not try individuals unless they are present in the courtroom.

Pre-Trial Chamber I

Who else is involved?

Representation of the Office of the Prosecutor

Defence Counsel

Legal Representatives of the Victims

Office of Public Counsel for Victims

Next Session

No upcoming hearings

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Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir
At large
President of the Republic of Sudan since 16 October 1993, and at time two arrest warrants issued in 2009 and 2010
Charged, as an indirect (co) perpetrator, with ten counts of crimes: five counts of crimes against humanity: murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture, and rape; two counts of war crimes: intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking part in hostilities, and pillaging; three counts of genocide: by killing, by causing serious bodily or mental harm, and by deliberately inflicting on each target group conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction, allegedly committed at least between 2003 and 2008 in Darfur, Sudan
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