Sabahi (Washington, DC)

Kenya: ICC Orders Bensouda to Share Witness Correspondence With Kenyatta Team

13 June 2013
Photo: ICC-CPI/AP/Bas Czerwinski
Representatives of the Office of the Prosecutor and the Registry of the International Criminal Court in 2011.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has instructed Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to allow President Uhuru Kenyatta's legal team to access email communications and asylum details of the former "Witness Four", Kenya's Daily Nation reported Wednesday (June 12th).

The witness is said to be a former Mungiki leader who testified that Kenyatta had met with members of the sect in January 2008 at the State House in order to plan retaliatory acts against the Orange Democratic Movement during 2007-2008 post-election violence.

Although the witness was withdrawn over bribery allegations, Bensouda is still expected to rely on his testimony.

Kenyatta lawyers want to use gathered information to prove that Witness Four was not at the locality he claimed to be in January 2008.

Kenyatta's trial is scheduled to start in July.

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