International Criminal Court (ICC) member countries should address the institution’s finding of obstruction by Kenya in the case against President Uhuru Kenyatta, Human Rights Watch has said.
An ICC trial chamber Monday referred a finding of non-cooperation in the now-withdrawn case against Uhuru to the court’s membership, known collectively as the Assembly of States Parties.
“The ICC has squarely called out Kenya’s breach of its obligations to the ICC,” said HRW associate international justice director Elizabeth Evenson in a statement to newsrooms. “Court member countries should make sure the message is heard in Nairobi that they will not turn a blind eye to the government’s obstruction of justice,” she added.
ICC judges in January 2012 had charged Uhuru, then deputy premier, with crimes against humanity for his alleged role in organising and financing murder, displacement, and rape during the violence that followed Kenya’s 2007 presidential election.
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