Widespread suspicion greeted the death of Paul Gicheru the Kenyan lawyer who two years ago turned himself into the International Criminal Court to face charges of tampering with prosecution witnesses in the case against then Deputy President William Ruto and radio presenter Joshua arap Sang for organising ethnically-targeted violence after the 2007 elections...
Gicheru who until 2013 ran a private law practice in Eldoret is accused of being the manager of a scheme to corrupt ICC prosecution witnesses in the cases of Deputy President William Ruto and radio presenter Joshua arap Sang (AC Vol 51 No 25 Ocampo names six suspects)...
For example ex-indictees President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto were coming and going almost at will while their fellow Kenyan indictee radio announcer Joshua arap Sang was required to attend the Court full time...
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The former ICC indictees previously charged with crimes against humanity known as the 'Ocampo Six' after former ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo arrived standing in a white pick-up truck: Kenyatta Ruto Joshua arap Sang along with Mohammed Hussein Ali Francis Muthaura and Henry Kosgey...
The assessment by three judges at the International Criminal Court on 5 April that the prosecution's evidence against William Ruto Kenya's Deputy President and Joshua arap Sang a prominent Kalenjin radio announcer was too weak to sustain a case points to critical failures in the court's investigative procedures and its witness protection scheme...
Some of the evidence is identical to that against William Ruto and Joshua arap Sang whose trial continues...
The mutilated corpse of Yebei whose role in the trial of Vice-President William Ruto and Joshua arap Sang at the International Criminal Court is disputed was discovered in the Eldoret area on 2 January six days after his reported abduction...
Yebei was described once as a prosecution and then as a defence witness in the trial of Vice-President William Ruto and the radio DJ Joshua arap Sang for crimes against humanity in the post-election violence of 2007-08 at the International Criminal Court in the Hague (AC Vol 56 No 1 Economy up security down)...
Although the ICC withdrew its charges of crimes against humanity against President Uhuru Kenyatta on 5 December Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has made it clear she will continue with the other two Kenya cases against Ruto and radio talk-show host Joshua arap Sang...
Official statements from Ruto and fellow-indictee President Uhuru Kenyatta said it was no setback that the trial of Ruto and co-defendant Joshua arap Sang would be in the Netherlands...