ICC News – OTP to charge Sudanese President with Genocide

By Björn Elberling

The Press Advisory on the ICC website reads somewhat unspectacularly, "ICC Prosecutor to present second case to the Judges in the Darfur situation on 14 July." Today, the Prosecutor has announced that the person he will be charging is Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, and that the charges will include genocide (see MSNBC article). Certainly an interesting development on the eve of the 10 th Anniversary of the Rome Statute. More as things develop further. H/T: Kevin Jon Heller at Opinio Juris.

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