News | International Criminal Court (ICC)
| ICC suspends Thomas Lubanga trial | |
ICC - July 8, 2010 | |
 | The International Criminal Court ordered to stay the proceedings in the case The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, considering that the fair trial of the accused is no longer possible due to non-implementation of the Chamber’s orders by the Prosecution. The judges had ordered the Office of the Prosecutor to confidentially disclose to the Defence the names and other necessary identifying information, of intermediary 143. |
| ICC: Jean-Pierre Bemba trial postponed | |
ICC - July 7, 2010 | |
 | Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Court vacated the commencement date, scheduled on 14 July, of the trial in the case of The Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo. Trial Chamber III considered that it is in the interests of justice for the challenge to admissibility of the case raised by the Defence to be resolved by the Appeals Chamber prior to the commencement of the trial. |
| The ICC signs enforcement agreements with Belgium, Denmark, and Finland | |
ICC - June 1, 2010 | |
| “Having sufficient options in place to ensure the enforcement of judicially ordered sentences is an important element in the overall credibility of the judicial process at the ICC”, stated ICC President, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, during the signing ceremony. |
| ICC: Jean-Pierre Bemba trial postponed | |
ICC - March 8, 2010 | |
 | Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Court decided to postpone the commencement date of the trial in the case of The Prosecutor v. Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo until Monday, 5 July 2010. On 27 April 2010, the date on which the trial was initially scheduled to commence, the Chamber will hold a status conference to discuss the admissibility challenge brought by the Defence for Mr Bemba. |
| Lubanga Witness Says He Was Paid US$200 To Tell Lies | |
lubangatrial.org - February 8, 2010 | |
| A witness today told the war crimes trial of Thomas Lubanga that intermediaries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave him US$200 as payment for convincing his nephew to give false testimony against the accused. |
| ICC: Thomas Lubanga Defence Questions Witness Credibility | |
IWPR - January 30, 2010 | |
| The case for the defence in the war crimes trial of former Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga opened this week with his lawyers declaring that prosecution witnesses were coached, and that the witnesses who claimed to have been child soldiers never were. |
| Ugandan rebels murder, rape, mutilate, displace thousands in DR Congo, Sudan - UN | |
UN News - December 21, 2009 | |
 | In a 10-month rampage of killings, rape and mutilation in neighbouring countries that may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, the rebel Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), has killed some 1,300 civilians, abducted 1,400 more, including hundreds of children and women, and displaced nearly 300,000 others, the United Nations reported today. |
| ICC reverses decision on the interim release of Jean-Pierre Bemba | |
ICC - December 2, 2009 | |
| Today, on 2 December 2009, Judge Akua Kuenyehia, Presiding Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC), delivered a summary of the judgment reversing the decision of Pre-Trial Chamber II that had granted the request of Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo for interim release, albeit under conditions. |
| ICC: Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui trial starts on Tuesday | |
ICC - November 23, 2009 | |
 | The trial in the case The Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, which will open on Tuesday, 24 November, 2009, before Trial-Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is the second trial in the context of the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), referred to the Court by the Government of the DRC on 3 March, 2004. |
| Amnesty International: more prosecutions should follow for war crimes in the Kivus | |
Amnesty International - November 19, 2009 | |
 | Amnesty International welcomes the arrest by the German authorities of Ignace Murwanashyaka, President of the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR), and his deputy, Straton Musoni, on 17 November 2009 as an important step forward in addressing impunity and establishing accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in eastern DRC. |
