{"id":497095,"date":"2010-04-01T00:04:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T04:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=11783"},"modified":"2010-04-01T00:04:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T04:04:58","slug":"icc-judges-approve-investigation-of-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/497095","title":{"rendered":"ICC Judges Approve Investigation of Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Julian Ku <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Add another <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Africa\/2010\/0331\/ICC-to-investigate-Kenya-election-violence.-Will-leaders-cooperate\">African<\/a> case to the ICC&#8217;s docket.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Topics\/War-crimes\" >International Criminal Court<\/a> in The Hague, Netherlands, has given its prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo the green light to investigate the role of senior politicians in\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Topics\/Kenya\" >Kenya<\/a>&#8217;s post-election violence that killed 1,300 Kenyans in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The decision allows Mr. Ocampo to take the next step, which would be passing down indictments against senior Kenyan politicians, some of whom are thought to be ministers and cabinet members in the powersharing government of President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/z68mboec-Dg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Julian Ku Add another African case to the ICC&#8217;s docket. The\u00a0International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, has given its prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo the green light to investigate the role of senior politicians in\u00a0Kenya&#8217;s post-election violence that killed 1,300 Kenyans in 2008. The decision allows Mr. Ocampo to take the next step, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}