The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered the interim release “under specific conditions” of the former vice president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Jean-Pierre Bemba. He has been acquitted on war crimes charges. Bemba, 55, has been in the ICC detention centre for a decade since his arrest in 2008. Southern African Litigation Centre was very vocal after the South African government allowed Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir to slip out of the country. South Africa, as a signatory to the ICC’s Rome Statute, was obligated to arrest him and hand him over. We have in the studio International Consultant of the International Criminal Court for the Southern African Litigation Centre Suzgo Lungu, to talk about the whole issue around African countries and the ICC.
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