Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have appealed against a decision by the body's tribunal not to charge Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, with conducting genocide in the country's western Darfur region.
The court in The Hague charged Bashir with war crimes and crimes against humanity in March for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of murder and torture in Darfur.
But it said in a ruling on Tuesday that there was insufficient evidence to prove he was also guilty of waging genocide.
Prosecutors said on Tuesday the judges who rejected the charges were wrong in applying "an evidentiary burden that is inappropriate for this procedural stage".
They said the tribunal only needed to prove that there are "reasonable grounds to believe" al-Bashir was responsible for genocide.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor at the ICC, also called for the case to be sent back to the ICC's pre-trial chamber.
The court in The Hague charged Bashir with war crimes and crimes against humanity in March for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of murder and torture in Darfur.
But it said in a ruling on Tuesday that there was insufficient evidence to prove he was also guilty of waging genocide.
Prosecutors said on Tuesday the judges who rejected the charges were wrong in applying "an evidentiary burden that is inappropriate for this procedural stage".
They said the tribunal only needed to prove that there are "reasonable grounds to believe" al-Bashir was responsible for genocide.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor at the ICC, also called for the case to be sent back to the ICC's pre-trial chamber.
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