More than 65,000 victims of a Malian Islamist who was a key figure in the police force that imposed sharia law on Timbuktu in 2012 \u200band ordered public floggings and other punishments, should receive a combined 7.25 \u200cmillion euros ($8.5 million) in compensation, International Criminal Court judges said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The reparations will largely be in the form of collective rehabilitation measures including educational programs and training and psychological support, focused particularly \u200bon women and girls who were victimised by Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz, \u200bthe judges said.<\/p>\n
Women and girls suffered persecution – one of the crimes for \u2060which Al Hassan was convicted – as their lives were the most closely controlled by \u200bthe Islamic police. They were only allowed to leave their homes if they wore particular \u200bclothing, and many came to dread going outdoors, the judges said.<\/p>\n
Al Hassan, who was convicted in June 2024 of eight counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, could not pay the reparations himself, \u200bjudges said, and they asked the court’s Trust Fund for Victims to help cover \u200bthe costs. Reparations are an integral part of ICC cases after convictions, and there are currently reparations \u200cordered \u2060in five other cases that are being provided to victims by the Trust Fund for Victims.<\/p>\n
Al Hassan\u00a0was sentenced to 10 years in prison\u00a0for helping run the Islamic police set up by the Ansar Dine Islamist group after the city on the fringe of the \u200bSahara desert was captured \u200bby militants. Having \u2060been in custody for about six years by the time of his conviction, Al Hassan is expected to be freed soon.<\/p>\n
According to \u200bjudges, while in Timbuktu he took part in or was present \u200bat many \u2060public floggings which were deeply traumatising for victims and onlookers.<\/p>\n
The Trust Fund for Victims has been given until next January to prepare a plan to implement the compensation measures, which \u2060must be \u200bapproved by judges.<\/p>\n
The ICC, the world’s only permanent war \u200bcrimes tribunal, has been examining events in Mali since 2012. French and Malian troops pushed the rebels out \u200bof the city the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
More than 65,000 victims of a Malian Islamist who was a key figure in the police force that imposed sharia law on Timbuktu in 2012 \u200band ordered public floggings and other punishments, should receive a combined 7.25 \u200cmillion euros ($8.5 million) in compensation, International Criminal Court judges said on Tuesday. The reparations will largely be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,1129,27],"tags":[368,187,5063],"class_list":["post-20644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-security","category-west-africa","tag-international-criminal-court-icc","tag-mali","tag-sharia-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20645,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20644\/revisions\/20645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}