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The word 'indictee' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is the person who is formally charged with a crime and is being prosecuted. An example sentence might be: "The defendant was the indictee in the criminal trial."
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indictee
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A person who is indicted
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But last year Mr Kenyatta broke ranks with those wise old men, formed his own party, and together with William Ruto, a fellow ICC indictee who champions the Kalenjin group, decided to run for the top job.
The conundrum of whether Western governments must continue to treat with an ICC indictee in the hope of sustaining a wider peace will be awkwardly unresolved.
Its indictments, once issued, remain in force until the indictee is either tried or dead.
With an indictee of the ICC riding so high, the court looks isolated as it tries a sitting head of state for the first time.Messrs Kenyatta and Ruto face long prison sentences if convicted.
Its highest-profile indictee, Slobodan Milosevic, died while awaiting trial in 2006.
Britain and America have publicly congratulated Mr Kenyatta and his new government, while privately warning that if he or his running mate and fellow indictee, William Ruto, cease to co-operate with the court, relations with the West could deteriorate fast.That seems unlikely at present.
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There is one war-crimes trial at the special court, of a group accused of taking part in a massacre of Croatian prisoners from Vukovar in 1991.At the Hague tribunal judges are now examining cases of lesser ranking indictees to see whether they can be tried back home.
The Americans are also growing tired of pressing Serbia to hand over indictees to The Hague.
If this is so, then we can hope to see Mr Mladic and Croatian Serb indictees in The Hague soon, and Serbia really will be moving ahead.
In the past he has managed, by coercion or financial rewards, to get indictees to give themselves up voluntarily.
Whether the two sides can broker such a deal will depend a lot on whether Mr Kony and his fellow indictees feel confident enough to take part in the negotiations.Mr Kony sent others to this first round in his stead.
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