Kenya: AU Views Swayed ICC On Uhuru

22 October 2013

ICC judge Chile Eboe-Osuji has confessed that statement's of African Presidents and African Union leaders influenced him to allow President Uhuru Kenyatta partial presence in his trial.

In a long "concurring separate opinion" to last Friday's decision in favor of Uhuru, Eboe-Osuji also justified why views of leaders of states should not be ignored in judicial work of the court.

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