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Darfur: ICC Prosecutor Requests Summons to Appear

27 Feb 2007

Dear All,

On 27 February 2007, the International Criminal Court made public on its website
an application from the Prosecutor, to Pre-Trial Chamber I, requesting that the
Chamber issue summonses in respect of Ahmad Muhammad Harun (according to the
application, a former Minister of State for the Interior of the Government of
Sudan) and Ali Muhammad Ali Abdal-Rahman(according to the Application, Militia
leader also known as Ali Kushayb) to direct them to appear before the Court for
initial proceedings.

The Application states that the Office of the Prosecutor has concluded that
there are reasonable grounds to believe that these two persons bear criminal
responsibility for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur in
2003 and 2004.

You may access the Application with Annexes on the Court's website:
http://www.icc-cpi.int/cases/Darfur/s0205/s0205_doc.html

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Warm Regards,
Cecilia Nilsson Kleffner
Legal Advisor and Head of the Hague Office
Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC)


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