{"id":102756,"date":"2022-06-28T10:22:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/?p=102756"},"modified":"2022-06-28T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T09:33:00","slug":"last-stabs-darkness-icc-kenyan-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/102756-last-stabs-darkness-icc-kenyan-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Last stabs in the darkness at the ICC on the Kenyan case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As if the historic failure of the Kenyan trial was not bitter enough, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has taken it upon itself, in agreeing to prosecute Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru, to seek the truth in a web of lies. Yesterday in The Hague was the final act in this trial of darkness.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am completely recused,\u201d said earlier this month the International Criminal Court (ICC)<\/a> prosecutor Karim Khan when pressed by journalists about his role in the case that was concluded yesterday against a Kenyan lawyer, Paul Gicheru, accused of interfering with witnesses while Khan represented Kenya\u2019s deputy president William Ruto. \u201cI am not involved. I don't receive the evidence or the emails. This is dealt with by a deputy prosecutor. I won't comment further,\u201d said the incumbent ICC chief of prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Khan were open to questions, they would centre on what role he played as defence counsel in one of the ICC\u2019s most notorious defeat. The case on charges of crimes against humanity against Ruto and fellow defendant Joshua Arap Sang, a radio broadcaster, collapsed in 2016<\/a>. The main case against Ruto, and the other one against his opponent who then became his election partner Uhuru Kenyatta, concerned the ethnic violence which ripped through serval communities in the country following the election at the end of 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 1.100 people died and around 600.000 others were left homeless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Witness interference <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The then presiding judge described a \"troubling\" pattern of \"witness interference\". 16 out of the 42 witnesses had changed their stories or refused to testify. The prosecution alleged the changes were due to intimidation, bribery or fear of reprisals. Ruto and Sang\u2019s lawyers successfully argued that the court should not allow previous recanted testimonies. That left a bitter taste in the prosecution\u2019s mouth, who couldn\u2019t use the testimonies key to his case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Khan\u2019s candidature to the post of ICC prosecutor<\/a>, Kenyan civil society critics noted that he had been intimately involved. His \u201ccloseness with his client\u201d led him to adopt Ruto\u2019s political posture and language, one prominent human rights lawyer told Justice Info, \u201cbullying\u201d and \u201csilencing\u201d civil society. It was a \u201cvery slippery space for a defence counsel\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truth out of contradictions <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On Monday 27 June, the judges heard the closing arguments in the case against Gicheru. The Kenyan lawyer played an \u201cessential role\u201d states the ICC prosecutor Anton Steynberg in what he describes as a \u2018common plan\u2019 \u201cto locate, contact and corruptly influence witnesses and potential witnesses in the Ruto and Sang case to withdraw and\/or recant their evidence and cease all cooperation with the Court.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prosecution had called eight witnesses to testify. They were either alleged recipients of bribes or had been involved in the alleged scheme, and had previously made statements to the court that their latest evidence contradicted. Nevertheless, Steynberg told the court it should be \u201cno surprise\u201d that some had lied previously; their evidence should now be assessed individually to see the picture built up. \u201cInconsistencies, contradictions and inaccuracies may in fact speak in favour of the truthfulness of the witnesses account\u201d, states the prosecution closing brief<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case was precipitated by Gicheru himself, who contacted the Office of the Prosecutor in 2018, recalls his lawyer Michael G. Karnavas. \u201cMy client reached out to the ICC. He just wanted to clear his name and get this thing over with. He just showed up at The Hague. He would like to be able to travel outside Kenya.\u201d Then Gicheru travelled to The Hague in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gicheru\u2019s move set Kenyan political commentators alight with speculation<\/a> that he might be prepared to spill the beans on the machinations behind the collapse of the trial, and thereby weaken Ruto\u2019s chances of becoming president after having been Kenyatta\u2019s vice president during more than nine years. But as Kenya is in the middle of another presidential race, Gicheru has remained tight-lipped, and Ruto remains the leading candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prosecution was unsure how to look at this \u2018gift horse\u2019. In its closing brief it described Gicheru\u2019s \u201cdemeanour\u201d during interviews as \u201cevasive, failing to maintain eye contact, looking around while speaking or taking long pauses before responding to questions.\u201d To substantiate their allegations about his central role, it brought evidence such as bank records, mobile phone recordings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defence also poked holes in these forms of evidence, pointing out where they failed to directly connect to Gicheru. Karnavas suggested in its own closing brief<\/a> that phone recordings were staged to provide evidence for the prosecution. That\u2019s \u201cfanciful in the extreme\u201d, replies the prosecution. \u201cIt would require consistent coordination between the persons alleged to be responsible from diverse locations across the world and over a period of seven years, even persisting well after the supposed rewards had been received\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cConfabulators of Olympic proportion\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCorrupted by tunnel-vision due to a combination of ineptitude, indifference, lack of due diligence, self-imposed restrictions on investigating in the Rift Valley and elsewhere, and with no small measure of pre-conceived result-determinateness, the Office of the Prosecutor (\u201cOTP\u201d) investigators conducted an irreparably flawed investigation, based on the lies, hearsay, and unsubstantiated claims by grifters, opportunists, con-artists, and confabulators of Olympic proportion\u201d, the defence didn\u2019t hesitate to write in its brief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defence presented no case and no witnesses. That is because they assessed \u201cthere was insufficient evidence\u201d that they had to counter, Karnavas explained to Justice Info. Instead, he concentrated his fire on the prosecution methodology in Gicheru\u2019s case: \u201cThe OTP\u2019s investigation is a textbook lesson on how not to conduct an unbiased, methodical, and diligent investigation where the sole objective is to let the evidence lead where it may, as opposed to having a predestined outcome lead the evidence\u201d, reads its written brief.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMyopic approach by the defence\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Prosecution \u201cexpects the Trial Chamber to find the needles of truth \u2013 if any exist \u2013 hidden in the massive haystacks of lies by each witness, inaptly cherry-pick through the witnesses\u2019 accounts with preference accorded to the most recent versions produced through countless and ever-evolving \u2018clarifications,\u2019 and to step into the breach and fill in the gaps. The evidence \u2013 if viewed holistically and objectively \u2013 does not rise to the level of proof beyond a reasonable doubt,\u201d reads the defence brief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviewed by Justice Info, Karnavas does not mince his words either: \u201cIt is up to them to prove their case. If they are going to parade a bunch of liars and grifters. If the evidence is full of holes. If the witnesses are contradicting themselves. If they are relaying on hearsay evidence, why should I as defence counsel try to find evidence to the contrary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steynberg described this as a \u201cmyopic approach by the defence\u201d to the court, \u201cassessing each witness in isolation and refusing to acknowledge the bigger picture the prosecutor case painted\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The short trial began in February 2022 before single judge Miatta Maria Samba who will now assess the credibility of the witnesses and whether the evidence proves that Gicheru was responsible for a scheme to interfere with a case at the ICC.<\/p>\n\n\n

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