Sexual Crimes in Conflict Database
A collection of relevant literature and case law
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Jurisprudence judicial mechanism
ICTR - Idelphonse Hategekimana
- Year
- 2012
- Issues
- Achievements and Challenges of Sexual Violence Prosecution
- Country
- Rwanda
- Keywords
- Genocidal Rape Tutsi Acquittal Command Responsibility Genocidal Intent
- Reference link
- http://www.unictr.org/en/cases/ictr-00-55b
- Type of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal/Court
- Name of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
- Name of accused
- Idelphonse Hategekimana
- Charges
- - Rape as a crime against humanity under Article 6(3) (command responsibility) for the rape of Nura Sezirahiga by a soldier from Ngoma Military Camp, during an attack led by Hategekimana.- Causing serious bodily or mental harm as genocide under Article 6(1) (JCE) for the sexual violence.
- Trial chamber verdict
- Hategekimana was found guilty by the Trial Chamber on 6 December 2010 of: - Rape as a crime against humanity Hategekimana was found not guilty by the Trial Chamber of: - Causing serious bodily or mental harm as genocide as the Trial Chamber found that the evidence did not establish that Nura Sezirahiga was a Tutsi or that she was raped with genocidal intent.
- sentencing
- Hategekimana was sentenced to life imprisonment.
- Appeals chamber verdict
- Hategekimana’s acquittal for genocide was not appealed by the prosecution. The Appeals Chamber on 8 May 2012 confirmed the conviction for sexual violence by the Trial Chamber.
- Status
- 2715
- Case number
- ICTR-00-55B
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Jurisprudence judicial mechanism
ICTY - Milomir Stakic (“Prijedor”)
- Year
- 2006
- Issues
- Definitions/Elements of Sexual Violence Crimes Modes of Liability
- Country
- Former Yugoslavia
- Keywords
- Rape Joint Criminal Enterprise (JCE) Detention Centers Forced to watch Rape Genocidal Intent Coercion
- Reference link
- http://www.icty.org/cases/party/782/4
- Type of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal/Court
- Name of mechanism
- International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
- Name of accused
- Milomir Stakic
- Charges
- - Persecution as a crime against humanity under Article 7(1) (co-perpetration), which included rapes and sexual assault.- Causing serious bodily or mental harm as genocide or, alternatively, complicity in genocide under Article 7(1) (JCE) and 7(3) (command responsibility), which included subjecting Bosnian Muslim and Bosnian Croat detainees in various camps (e.g. Omarska, Keraterm, Trnopolje) and detention facilities in the Prijedor municipality to rape and sexual assault or forcing them to witness such crimes.
- Trial chamber verdict
- Stakic was found guilty by the Trial Chamber on 31 July 2003 of:- Persecution as a crime against humanity Stakic was found not guilty by the Trial Chamber of:- Causing serious bodily or mental harm as genocide or, alternatively, complicity in genocide as it was not proved that Stakic had the specific genocidal intent.
- sentencing
- Stakic was sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment on 22 March 2006.
- Appeals chamber verdict
- The Appeals Chamber confirmed the conviction, but changed the mode of liability from co-perpetration to JCE I.
- Status
- 2715
- Case number
- IT-97-24
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