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Congo's Bemba being transferred to ICC

3rd July 2008

By: Reuters

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Congolese former rebel warlord and vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba was being transferred on Thursday from Belgium to the custody of the International Criminal Court in the Hague, a Belgian justice source said.

Bemba, the defeated contender in Democratic Republic of Congo's 2006 presidential election, is accused by the ICC of leading Congolese rebels who waged a campaign of rape and torture in the Central African Republic in 2002/2003.

"He is on his way," the source said of Bemba, whose lawyers have mounted a series of challenges in Belgian courts to his arrest and transfer.

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Belgium's Justice Ministry declined to comment. (Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop; Editing by Matthew Tostevin

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