Interview with Alain Werner

  • by Michael Saliba, J.D. (Northwestern Law '09), Consultant to the Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law
  • — 21 Sep, 2009

Alain Werner is the Co-Counsel for Civil Party Group One in the trial of Kaing Guek Eav (alias Duch). His team is led by Karim A. A. Khan from Great Britain. Previously, Alain Werner spent several years working directly with victims as a prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. More recently, he joined a team under Human Rights Watch working to bring the former dictator of Chad, Hissene Habre, to justice in Senegal. On September 14, 2009, Alain Werner sat down with the Cambodia Tribunal Monitor (CTM) to discuss the role of civil parties in the Duch trial specifically, and in international criminal proceedings more generally…

Read more: ctm_blog_9-21-2009_

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