Experiment in Hybrid Justice – First Year of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal

With the arrest of five senior-most surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the judicial activities of the United Nations assisted Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia have increased considerably. The defendants have launched preliminary jurisdictional challenges, pre-trial proceedings are ongoing and the tribunal’s first trial is likely to commence before the end of 2008.

In this background, Anees AHMED, the tribunal’s Senior Assistant Prosecutor, shall speak about the recent developments and the substantive and procedural issues likely to be raised before the tribunal.  Anees has worked in this tribunal from the very commencement of its judicial activities and is now part of the prosecution teams in the cases of the two senior-most surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge. Before moving to Cambodia, for many years Anees was a prosecuting attorney in the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Anees graduated in law from the London School of Economics where he was a Chevening Scholar. He is a Barrister of the Lincoln’s Inn and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of India. He was recently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London.  He currently teaches International Human Rights Law at the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE) in Phnom Penh

Time: Monday, Sept. 29, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: The Seminar Room, NCHR, Universitetsgaten 22-24