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Hassan Bubacar Jallow

Jurist and international prosecutor

Born 1951

Hassan Bubacar Jallow is a Gambian jurist whose career has spanned national courts and international criminal justice. He became prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2003. Earlier he served as attorney general and helped draft the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, adopted in 1981.

THEIR MARK ON HISTORY

01Became prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2003.

02Participated in drafting the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights.

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