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STORY: OHCHR / SUDAN ICC CONVICTION
TRT: 01:35
SOURCE: OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 OCTOBER 2025 NAIROBI, KENYA
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Seif Magango, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We welcome today’s convictions against Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed in Sudan’s western Darfur region in 2003-2004. The convictions by a Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court represent an important acknowledgment of the enormous suffering endured by the victims of his heinous crimes, as well as a first measure of long overdue redress for them, and their loved ones. We pay tribute to the victims who courageously shared their accounts of harrowing and life-altering loss and suffering, hoping against hope that one day accountability would reach their once seemingly untouchable tormentors.
Today’s verdicts - the first in a situation referred to the Court by the UN Security Council – unfortunately come at a time when similar atrocity crimes are taking place once again in Darfur, and elsewhere in Sudan, amid the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces. UN High Commissioner Volker Türk hopes today’s verdicts will serve as a fresh reminder to the perpetrators of today’s crimes, that there can be no impunity for mass crimes against civilians; a reminder to them that they too will be brought to justice one day for grave violations of the law. The verdicts confirm the ICC’s continuing importance as a court of last resort, when there is no prospect for accountability at the national level.”
UN Human rights Office (OHCHR) spokesperson Seif Magango welcomed the International Criminal Court’s convictions against Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al Rahman (Ali Kushayb) for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Sudan’s western Darfur region in 2003-2004.
In a video message recorded today (06 Oct) in Nairobi, Kenya, the OHCHR spokesperson also said, “The convictions by a Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court represent an important acknowledgment of the enormous suffering endured by the victims of his heinous crimes, as well as a first measure of long overdue redress for them, and their loved ones.”
He continued, “We pay tribute to the victims who courageously shared their accounts of harrowing and life-altering loss and suffering, hoping against hope that one day accountability would reach their once seemingly untouchable tormentors.”
He added, “Today’s verdicts - the first in a situation referred to the Court by the UN Security Council – unfortunately come at a time when similar atrocity crimes are taking place once again in Darfur, and elsewhere in Sudan, amid the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces.”
UN High Commissioner Volker Türk, Magango said, “hopes today’s verdicts will serve as a fresh reminder to the perpetrators of today’s crimes, that there can be no impunity for mass crimes against civilians; a reminder to them that they too will be brought to justice one day for grave violations of the law.”
He concluded, “The verdicts confirm the ICC’s continuing importance as a court of last resort, when there is no prospect for accountability at the national level.”
