The Prosecutor of the of the Residual Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (RMICT) has requested that genocide architect Felicien Kabuga is temporarily transferred to the The Hague in The Netherlands.
Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz filed an urgent motion before Judge Carmel Agius, President of the UN Tribunal, requesting for Genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga to be transferred to The Hague Branch of the court.
In the motion, the Prosecution requested the President to urgently amend the Warrant of Arrest and Order for Transfer of Kabuga to provide for temporary transfer to The Hague Branch of the Mechanism instead of the Arusha Branch in Tanzania, in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Kabuga's transfer to The Hague Branch remains possible despite the current travel restrictions, said the prosecutor.
To avoid any uncertainty created by the pandemic, the Prosecutor noted that the Arrest Warrant should be amended to provide for Kabuga's temporary transfer to The Hague.
