Central African Republic: ICC arrest warrant against Noureddine Adam, former number 2 of Seleka

The ICC has filed an arrest warrant against Nourredine Adam.

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The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Noureddine Adam.

The former number 2 of the Seleka is prosecuted for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed between April and November 2013 in the Central African Republic.

The warrant was issued in January 2019, but has since been kept under seal in hopes of maximizing the chances of arresting him.

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With our correspondent in The Hague, 

Stéphanie Maupas

Ex-policeman turned rebel, then minister and today a fugitive.

Noureddine Adam is still running despite this arrest warrant secretly issued against him three and a half years ago.

Despite also the United Nations sanctions theoretically preventing him from traveling.

Or the Interpol red notice.

According to the ICC arrest warrant, he allegedly committed and ordered acts of torture, persecution and cruel treatment.

So many war crimes and crimes against humanity committed after the capture of Bangui by the

Seleka

in March 2013 and the fall of François Bozizé. 

Under the orders of Noureddine Adam, who became a minister in the government of Michel Djotodia, several men were forcibly detained in the premises of the Central Office for the Repression of Banditry in Bangui.

According to the ICC prosecutor, they would have been targeted because of their supposed support for ex-president Bozizé, because also because of their ethnicity and their religion. 

Among those who are said to have carried out his orders is

Mahamat Saïd

.

He is

imprisoned in the ICC prison

and his trial is due to begin in September.

Noureddine Adam is the fifth Central African official to be publicly prosecuted by the Court since the start of its investigation.   

#ICC judges issue public redacted version of arrest warrant for Mahamat Nouradine Adam, suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in the #CentralAfricanRepublic.

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— Int'l Criminal Court (@IntlCrimCourt) July 28, 2022

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