On July 19, 2017, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled [3] in Prosecutor v. Gbagbo and Blé Goudé to reverse the Trial Chamber I decision [4] that Laurent Gbagbo should continue to be detained and ordered the Chamber to carry out a new review. According to the press release [5], the Appeals Chamber stated that “Trial Chamber I should have considered the duration of time Mr Gbagbo has spent in detention alongside the risks being reviewed and it should have determined whether, all factors being considered, Mr Gbagbo's detention continues to be reasonable.” The presiding judge also noted that the Court had “erred in taking into account the fact that a person denies responsibility for the charges he faces, as a factor favouring detention” and had also “erred by considering Mr Gbagbo's advanced age as a factor that increased his desire to abscond, rather than one that may potentially mitigate the possibility of absconding.”