United Nations Criminal Tribunals Mechanism winding down after indicting more than 250 persons

The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, presented the Mechanism's twenty-eighth progress report to the UN Security Council. More than 250 persons indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have been tried, convicted, acquitted, transferred, or otherwise accounted for. The Mechanism currently supervises the sentences of 36 persons in eight enforcement States and two persons detained in the UN Detention Unit. Despite steep resource reductions of over 40% since 2021, the Mechanism has continued to deliver results, but its ability to become a small, temporary and efficient structure remains hampered.