Kenya: Ruto, Sang Challenge ICC Case

2 September 2011

THE three post-election violence suspects whose case started yesterday at the Hague launched a joint offensive against the International Criminal Court challenging the court's jurisdiction to handle the matter.

In their separate filings at the court supplemented by oral presentations by their lawyers at an open court session presided over by Ekaterina Trendafilova, William Ruto, Joshua arap Sang and Henry Kosgey all argued they ought not to have any business at the Hague in the first place.

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