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3 1 January 2017

Case No.: MICT-12-29-R

_ Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals Date:

Original: English

IN TIlE APPEALS CHAMBER

Before:

Registrar:

Order of:

Judge Theodor Meron, Pre-Review Judge

Mr. Olufemi Elias

31 Januury 2017

PROSECUTOR

v.

AUGUSTINNGlRABATWARE

PUBLIC

ORDER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF TIlE REPUBLIC OFTURKEY FOR TIlE RELEASE OF JUDGE AYDIN SEFA AKAY

The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Serge Brammert7.Ms . Michelle Jarvi sMr. Richard KarcgycsaMr . Mathias MarcussenMs. Sunkarie Ballah-Conteh

Counsel for Mr. Augustin Ngirabatware:

" Government of the Republic or Turkey

Mr. Peter RobinsonReceived by the Registry

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17. In relation to Ngirabatware's request for temporary provisional release." I consider that as

Pre-Review Judge, I lack competence to entertain this request" Tanzania, whose support would be

required for the purpose of Ngirabatware's provisional release on its territory, 57 also docs not, . -- , .

support the request." AJJy request for modifications of the conditions of detention in accordance

with Rule 67 of the Rules should be made before the President

ID. DISPOSITION

18. For the foregoing reasons, pursuant to Articles 28 and 29(2) of the Statute and Rules 55 and

131 of the Rules, I hereby:

GRANT, in Part. the Motion;

ORDER the Government of the Republic of Turkey to: (i) cease all legal proceedings against Judge

Akay ; and (ii) take all necessary measures to ensure Judge Akay's release from detention as soon as

practicable, but no later than Tuesday, 14 February 2017, so that he can resume his judicial

functions in this case; and

DISMISS the Motion in all other respects.

Done in English and French, the English version being authoritative.

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Done this 31st day of January 2017!.At The Hague,The Netherlands.

']'~ ~~-,1\\ 't "-Judge Theodor Meron,Pre-Review Judge

\ 5 See Oral Hearing, T. 17 January 2017 pp . 21, 22,25,26; Ngirabatware Further Submission, paras. I, 14, 15; Motion,~ara.s. 2, 22.

See Rule 135 of the Rules . I find Ngirabatwarc's reliance on the competence of a Duty Judge at the InternationalCriminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ("[(.TY") inapposite given the circumscribed nature of the correspondingcompetence of a Duty Judge at the Mechanism, See Oral Hearing, T . 17 January 2017 pp. 25, 26 . Compare Rule 28 ofthe Rules (indicating that ll. Duty Judge will serve as a Single Judge on matters "not assigned to a. Single Judge or TrialChamber") wttb Rule 28(0) of the IcrY Rules of Procedure and Evidence (authorizing a Duty Judge to deal withapplicat ion s in a case already assigned to a Trial Chamber if, inter alia, "satisfied as to its urgency or that it is otherwiseappropriate to do so in the absence of the Trial Chamber"). In addition, while Rule 68(1) of the Rules applies, mutatismutandis, to convicted persons who are in the custody of the Mechanism pending transfer to an enforcement state, thedecision to authorize such provis ional release principally rests with the Appeals Chamber, to the extent that it is alreadyseised of the case. See Prosecutor v. Zdrovko Tolimir, Case No. MICf-15-95-ES, Public Redacted Version of the"Decision on Motion for Provisional Release" Filed on 28 January 2016,23 February 2016 , paras . 7, 8.5? See Agreement Between the United Nations and the United Republic of Tanzania concerning the Headquarters of theInternational Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, 26 November 2013 , Articles 38(1), 39(3).58 Oral Hearing, T . 17 January 2017 pp. 30, 31. '

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