The Hague, 16 October 2008

ICC-CPI-20081016-PR362-ENG

Situation: Darfur, Sudan

On 15 October 2008, Pre-Trial Chamber I issued a decision requesting the Prosecution to submit, no later than 16.00 hours on 17 November 2008, additional supporting materials in relation to some confidential aspects of the Prosecution's request for a warrant of arrest for the Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Al Bashir.

On 14 July 2008, the Prosecutor made a request to Pre Trial Chamber I for the issuance of a warrant of arrest for the Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Al Bashir, for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide allegedly committed by him through members of the state apparatus, the army and the Militia/Janjaweed in the context of an armed conflict against organised rebel groups. 

The situation in Darfur, Sudan, was referred to the International Criminal Court by the United Nations Security Council under resolution 1593 of 31 March 2005. The Prosecutor opened an investigation into the situation on 6 June 2005.

The case of The Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir is the second case arising from the situation in Darfur, Sudan, and concerns crimes committed in Darfur from March 2003 to July 2008. In the first case arising from the same situation, on 1 May 2007, Pre-Trial Chamber I issued warrants of arrest for Ahmad Muhammad Harun, former Minister of State for the Interior of the Government of the Sudan and currently Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs, and Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman ('Ali Kushayb'), a leader of the Militia/Janjaweed, for crimes against humanity and war crimes

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