Al Hassan was convicted on charges including including torture, rape, and destroying religious buildings.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has convicted an al-Qaeda-linked leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Mali, during an alleged reign of terror between 2012 and 2013 in the city of Timbuktu.
Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, 46, was convicted on Wednesday on charges including torture, rape and sexual slavery, and destroying religious and historic buildings.
He faces up to life imprisonment when a sentence is handed down at a later date.
Prosecutors said…