Kenya court allows Walter Barasas ICC extradition: Kenyas high court has ruled that a journalist wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague can be extradited. Walter Barasa is suspected of offering bribes to prosecution witnesses in the trial of Deputy President William Ruto. Mr Barasa, who denies the allegations, had sought to challenge the arrest warrant issued by the ICC last year. Mr Rutos trial is ongoing and he denies charges of being behind ethnic violence surrounding polls in 2007. Some 1,200 people died and 600,000 were forced from their homes following the presidential election on 27 December 2007. Kenyas President Uhuru Kenyatta is also due to stand trial on similar charges - he too denies the allegations. His trial, which was to start last month, has been delayed after a witness withdrew and another admitted giving false evidence. Last year, charges were dropped against Kenyas former civil service head Francis Muthaura, a co-accused of Mr Kenyatta, as some witnesses were too frightened to testify and another witness had recanted his testimony, the ICC said at the time.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:45:53 +0000
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