Hassan Bubacar Jallow is a Gambian judge who has served as Chief Justice of the Gambia since February 2017. He was the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 2003 to 2016, and Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) from 2012 to 2016, both at the rank of United Nations Under Secretary-General. He served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General from 1984 to 1994 under President Dawda Jawara.
Jallow with Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips, Kofi Annan, and Adama Dieng in 2006.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to adjudicate people charged for the Rwandan genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan citizens in nearby states, between 1 January and 31 December 1994. The court eventually convicted 61 individuals and acquitted 14.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Photographs of genocide victims displayed at the Genocide Memorial Center in Kigali
An ICTR building in Kigali, Rwanda.
Offices of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, 2003.