Decision Nº ICC-01/12-01/18-1009-Red of 2020-10-29 (case Public redacted version of ‘Decision on the Defence request to terminate the proceedings and related requests’)

• Judgment Date: 29 October 2020
• Docket Number: ICC-01/12-01/18-1009-Red

No: ICC-01/12-01/18 1/51 24 August 2020

Original: English No. ICC-01/12-01/18

Date: 29 October 2020

Date of original: 24 August 2020

TRIAL CHAMBER X

Before: Judge Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua, Presiding Judge

Judge Tomoko Akane

Judge Kimberly Prost

SITUATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MALI

IN THE CASE OF

THE PROSECUTOR v. AL HASSAN AG ABDOUL AZIZ AG MOHAMED AG

MAHMOUD

Public

Public redacted version of ‘Decision on the Defence request to terminate the

proceedings and related requests’

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Decision to be notified in accordance with Regulation 31 of the Regulations of the

Court to:

The Office of the Prosecutor

Fatou Bensouda

James Stewart

Counsel for the Defence

Melinda Taylor

Nicoletta Montefusco

Legal Representatives of Victims

Seydou Doumbia

Mayombo Kassongo

Fidel Luvengika Nsita

Legal Representatives of Applicants

Unrepresented Victims

Unrepresented Applicants for

Participation/Reparations

The Office of Public Counsel for Victims

The Office of Public Counsel for the

Defence

States Representatives

REGISTRY

Amicus Curiae

Registrar

Peter Lewis

Counsel Support Section

Victims and Witnesses Unit

Nigel Verrill

Detention Section

Victims Participation and Reparations

Section

Other

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Procedural history .................................................................................................. 4 I.

Related requests ..................................................................................................... 7 II.A. Prosecution Request for Disclosure and Prosecution Request for leave to

reply 7

1. Submissions ................................................................................................. 7

2. Analysis ....................................................................................................... 9

B. Defence Request for Disclosure and Defence Request for leave to reply .... 11

1. Submissions ............................................................................................... 11

2. Analysis ..................................................................................................... 14

C. Prosecution Request to strike submissions from the record .......................... 15

Submissions and analysis ..................................................................................... 17 III.

A. Preliminary matter: Timing of the Termination Motion ............................... 17

B. Applicable law............................................................................................... 19

1. The remedy of a stay of proceedings for abuse of process ........................ 19

2. Issues of attributability and obligations of the Prosecution ....................... 22

3. Burden and standard of proof .................................................................... 28

C. Analysis of factual allegations ...................................................................... 30

1. Alleged torture and CIDT of Mr Al Hassan .............................................. 30

2. Alleged conduct and involvement of the Prosecution ............................... 33

D. Conclusion on whether the threshold for a stay of proceedings has been met

48

E. Exclusion of evidence and other remedies .................................................... 48

F. Other requests ................................................................................................... 50

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