General Assembly elects Judge Mustapha El Baaj of Morocco to serve as Mechanism Judge
Arusha, The Hague, 16 January 2019 – On Tuesday, 15 January 2019, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) elected Judge Mustapha El Baaj of Morocco to the judicial roster of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism).
Judge El Baaj was elected following the vacancies on the Mechanism’s judicial roster created by the departure of Judge Bakone Justice Moloto of South Africa and the non-renewal of the term of Judge Aydin Sefa Akay of Turkey. On 21 December 2018 the UNGA elected Judge Yusuf Aksar of Turkey from the list of candidates submitted by the United Nations Security Council and following nominations from Member States of the United Nations.
In accordance with its Statute, the Mechanism has a roster of 25 independent Judges who serve both branches of the Mechanism.
