The States Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC) met last week from 2-7 December at the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) in The Hague, Netherlands.
During this week, nine experts were appointed to conduct an independent and strategic review of the Court. The experts will be working on the three clusters identified by the ASP Bureau: Governance, Judiciary, and Investigation & Prosecution. The Africa Group for Justice and Accountability (AGJA) is very pleased to announce that three of its members have been selected to be part of the independent expert review process, namely:
– Hassan B. Jallow, Chief Justice of The Gambia and Chair of the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability
– Mohamed C. Othman, Former Chief Justice of Tanzania
– Richard Goldstone, Former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia
