Reparations Center for Victims of War CrimesInternational Criminal Court Appeals Judge Akua Kuenyehia has removed herself from hearing the appeal of the trial court decision suspending the case against Thomas Lubanga of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Judge Kuenyehia sat on the pre-trial chamber that approved the warrant and initial indictment against Lubanga. Another judge who has not been involved…
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo spoke with blogger Melanie Gouby and played down the Trial Chamber’s decisions to suspend the case against Thomas Lubanga, and to release him from custody. In the interview, available here, Moreno-Ocampo argued the court’s order was the sign of a strong court and that his office was in…
Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered the release of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, based on the court’s order last week to stay the proceedings. That order, blogged about here, found that the prosecutions refusal to obey court orders to disclose the identity of witnesses to the defense prevented a fair trial…
Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, has suspended proceedings in the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. Lubanga was the first accused to appear before the court in 2007. In January 2009, the trial began, in January 2010, the defense began presenting its case. The defense has presented witnesses…
In an interview with the Open Society Institutes blog on the Lubanga Trial, Paolina Massidda of the International Criminal Court’s Office of Public Counsel for Victims has stated that the victims participating in the Lubanga Trial are interested in telling their stories, not in collecting reparations. The interview is available here. The International Criminal Court…
Two witnesses in the International Criminal Court (ICC) case against Thomas Lubanga testified by video link because they were unable to travel to The Hague. The defense asserts they were unable to travel because prosecution witnesses, who are also participating as victims in the case, had stolen their identities and they could not obtain proper…
The defense team for Thomas Lubanga at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has claimed that a witness testified under a false name. The witness, who testified as Dieudonné Tonyfwa Urochi, and is participating in the case as both a witness for the prosecution and as a victim seeking reparations before the court. The testimony, report…
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo’s defense team again raised concerns about the accuracy of the translations and transcripts of the proceedings. Defense counsel Catherine Mabile reported to the chamber that the defense had found “extremely important discrepancies” in the testimony of some witnesses. It is unclear what the discrepancies were. The Open Society Institute blogged the report…
The Office of the Prosecutor in the Thomas Lubanga Case has offered additional evidence that the witnesses who testified in the prosecution case were child soldiers. The defense had offered evidence that at least some of the witnesses were not young enough to be considered child soldiers under international law, and that others were not…
At the trial of Germain Katanga and Matthieu Ngdolo Chui for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the prosecution asked that its witness be declared hostile. The prosecutor reportedly noticed “inconsistencies” and asked the court to declare the witness as hostile. The court determined that the inconsistencies…
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