
Pre-Trial Chamber I decline to confirm the charges against Bahar Idriss Abu Garda
On 8 February 2010, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court declined to confirm the charges in the case of the ICC Prosecutor against Bahar Idriss Abu Garda. The Chamber was not satisfied that there was sufficient evidence to establish substantial grounds to believe that Bahar Idriss Abu Garda could be held criminally responsible either as a direct or as an indirect co-perpetrator for the commission of the crimes with which he was charged by the Prosecution. Abu Garda was charged with three war crimes, namely violence to life, intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units and vehicles involved in a peacekeeping mission, and pillaging, allegedly committed during an attack on 29 September, 2007, against the African Union Mission in Sudan (“AMIS”) stationed at Haskanita Military Group Site (“MGS Haskanita”), in the locality of Umm Kadada, North Darfur.
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