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Parliament in Kenya has been recalled for an emergency session to debate ending the country's membership of the International Criminal Court. Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto is due to appear at the ICC next week on charges of crimes against humanity. President Uhuru Kenyatta will appear in November.
The German agency responsible for hunting down Nazi era war criminals has recommended that 30 former guards of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland face charges of helping to commit murder even if they didn't personally kill anyone. The move follows the case of former death camp guard John Demjanjuk. Two years ago, a judge decided that he was guilty of facilitating mass murder even without evidence of his direct involvement.
Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel welcomedtoday's decision
This is a good indication, this is an indication that some of the prosecutors in Germany are taking their tasks very seriously, and of course, the important messages that all they should not protect people committed crimes and a passage of time no way diminished the guilty of the killers. So, certainly today, these prosecutions sent a very important, positive message.
A Communist-era prison governor in Romania has been charged with genocide. It's the first such case since the execution of the former leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena in 1989. Our Central Europe correspondent Nick Thorpe has the details.