The conviction of Jesus Christ by Pontius Pilate may be the
most famous court verdict ever and perhaps the most consequential, since it led
to Christ’s crucifixion and the founding of a global religion-Christianity. Now
a Kenyan lawyer want to overturn Pilate’s decision, though he wants to keep the
faith flowed from it. The selective and malicious prosecution of Jesus violated
his human right Dola Indidis, a Roman Catholic who is petitioning the
international court of justice, based at The Hague, to nullify Jesus conviction
and death sentence. Indidis, a former spokesman for the Kenyan judiciary,
accuses Pilate who was the Roman governor of Judea, of judicial misconduct,
abuse of office, bias and prejudice. That may be the case, at least in the view
of believers and many bible scholars. But getting a court to rule on a
2,000-year-old case from an outlying province in a long defunct empire will not
be easy.
Indidis, first brought his case
before the Kenyan high court in Nairobi in 2007, but the court refused to hear
it, saying it lacked jurisdiction. Now he is turning to the international court
of justice.
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