{"id":4117,"date":"2013-09-10T04:57:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T04:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2013-10-11T01:20:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T05:20:17","slug":"trial-against-kenyas-deputy-president-begins-at-the-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4117","title":{"rendered":"Trial Against Kenya\u2019s Deputy President Begins at the ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kenyas-Deputy-President-William-Ruto-during-the-trial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" alt=\"Kenya&#039;s Deputy President William Ruto during the trial\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4118\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kenyas-Deputy-President-William-Ruto-during-the-trial-300x168.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kenyas-Deputy-President-William-Ruto-during-the-trial-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kenyas-Deputy-President-William-Ruto-during-the-trial-220x123.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Kenyas-Deputy-President-William-Ruto-during-the-trial.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The trial against Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto for alleged crimes against humanity began Tuesday at the International Criminal Court (ICC).<\/p>\n<p>He is accused of having orchestrated the deadly postelection violence of 2007 alongside Kenyan radio journalist, Joshua Arap Sang who is on trial for murder and persecution.  <\/p>\n<p>While reading out the charges, the court\u2019s presiding judge, Chile Eboe-Osuji, said \u201cWilliam Samoei Ruto, you have been charged, in count one, with murder constituting a crime against humanity under article 7 1a, and article 25 3a of the Rome statute.  How do you plead, guilty or not guilty?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ruto pleaded not guilty. <\/p>\n<p>ICC Chief Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda said, \u201cthe prosecution asserts that the two accused, Mr. William Ruto and Mr. Joshua Arap Sang, are among most responsible for the crimes of murder, of persecution and deportation that occurred in the Rift Valley.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt is difficult to imagine the suffering or the terror of the men and the women and children who were burned alive, hacked to death or chased from their homes by armed youths,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p>Defense lawyer Karim Khan on the other hand termed the case \u201ca whole-scale duping of an office that has been put in place to protect the rights of victims\u201d and expressed confidence that it would fall apart. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Khan further stated that the ICC investigation was designed to target his client William Ruto and evidence was squeezed to fit this narrative. <\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s president Uhuru Kenyatta will also be tried for crimes against humanity in a few weeks. These are landmark cases for both Kenya and the ICC and the court is hoping to demonstrate that it can successfully prosecute an African leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Other African leaders indicted by the ICC include former president for Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo and current president of Sudan Omar al-Bashir. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial against Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto for alleged crimes against humanity began Tuesday at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He is accused of having orchestrated the deadly postelection violence of 2007 alongside Kenyan radio journalist, Joshua Arap Sang<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4117\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}