{"id":13442,"date":"2014-03-27T04:33:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T04:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bensouda-seeks-private-hearing-for-ruto\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T04:33:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T04:33:16","slug":"bensouda-seeks-private-hearing-for-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bensouda-seeks-private-hearing-for-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensouda Seeks Private Hearing for Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{A key witness against Deputy President William Ruto should be heard entirely in camera, the prosecutor has requested.}}<\/p>\n

Ms Fatou Bensouda told the ICC she was seeking protection for four other witnesses \u2013 P-0508, P-0028, P-0469 and P-0019 \u2013 who are lined up to testify against Mr Ruto in the crimes against humanity trial at the Hague.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor asked the judges on Monday that witness P-0452 should be heard entirely in private session.<\/p>\n

Ms Bensouda said witness P-0452 had indicated she was not afraid to testify, but now feels threatened.<\/p>\n

She said Witness P-0019, has insider information about meetings held to organise and plan the 2008 post-election violence.<\/p>\n

The witness, she said, had named Mr Farouk Kibet, a known Ruto associate, as a key coordinator of the violence.<\/p>\n

According to her filing, witness P-0508 is a victim of the violence and his identity was disclosed on January 9, 2013.<\/p>\n

Ms Bensouda says the witness has been threatened. The witness is afraid of endangering his life and that of his family, she submitted.<\/p>\n

Witness P-0028, Ms Bensouda says, received direct and indirect intimidation over his knowledge of the post-election violence.<\/p>\n

The witness possesses insider information about the planning meetings and Mr Ruto\u2019s role, she said. The judges are yet to make a ruling.<\/p>\n

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{Ms Bensouda}<\/p>\n

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{{A key witness against Deputy President William Ruto should be heard entirely in camera, the prosecutor has requested.}} Ms Fatou Bensouda told the ICC she was seeking protection for four other witnesses \u2013 P-0508, P-0028, P-0469 and P-0019 \u2013 who are lined up to testify against Mr Ruto in the crimes against humanity trial at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000051230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-13442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000051230,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13442.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13442.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13442.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13442.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13442.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13442.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000051230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13442"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=13442"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=13442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}