Kenyan Lawyer Sues Israel For The Death Of Jesus

A Kenyan Lawyer filed a petition with the International Court of Justice to overturn the trial and conviction of Jesus Christ and His subsequent death sentence.

After the lawsuit was thrown out in 2007 at the High court of Nairobi, Kenya, the lawyer turned the Netherlands based court which hears matters of International Law.

Dola Indisis, a former spokesperson of the Kenyan Judiciary is suing among others the Republic of Italy and the State of the Israel over the execution of the Christian Messiah. Mr Indidis hopes to have Jesus’ conviction quashed. “His selective and malicious prosecution violated his human rights through judicial misconduct, abuse of office bias and prejudice”, the lawyer told Kenyan paper The Nairobian.

Few apparent miscarriages of justice have reverberated as far and as long as the conviction and crucifixion of Jesus more than 2,000 years ago.

Mr Indidis’ case challenges the mode of questioning used during Jesus’ trial, the punishments meted out to Him while proceedings were still underway, and thew substance of the information used to convict him.

He hopes to establish what crime Jesus was charged with and hopes the court declares that proceedings before the Roman courts were a nullity in law for they did not conform to the rule of law at the material time and any time thereafter.

Legal experts do not expect Mr Indidis’ efforts to be a success, ironically because the ICJ does not have legal jurisdiction.

Anthea Roberts professor of Law at Columbia Law School told Times Magazine’s Swampland political blog that the International Court of Justice only has jurisdiction to hear claims that are brought by one state against another.

“As this claim is not brought by a state, the ICJ would lack jurisdiction over it” he said.