Arrested Turkish judge of the United Nations involvement in the coup attempt
A Turkish judge the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, legal UN body dealing with the unfinished business of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was arrested in Turkey on charges connected with the failed coup July 15, said the president of the court.
Turkey has ignored the requests of the UN to visit Aydin Sentaf A and after the arrest on 21 September, despite diplomatic immunity, which may be a violation of judicial independence, said President Theodor Meron in UN General Assembly .
"The UN Legal Affairs Office called for the release and the cessation of legal proceedings against him," said Meron. The arrest is believed to be the first case of violation of the immunity of a UN judge.
At the moment of conception of the A and was expected to consider the appeal of a politician from Rwanda who had been sentenced in 2012 to 35 years in prison for his role in the genocide in the country in 1994.
"As a result of the arrest, the case trial proceedings stopped" said Meron.
The A and former diplomat, was appointed in 2009 a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and later became a judge on the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals.
