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Empty seats in one of the two big plenary halls (accessible only via limited badges and special tickets for NGO observers) on Day 2. (Credit: Shirleen Chin)

It has been more than two weeks since the end of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in...

ICC Trial Chamber VIII declares Mr Al Mahdi guilty of the war crime of attacking historic and religious buildings in Timbuktu and sentences him to nine years' imprisonment. Photo credit: @ICC-CPI

Al Mahdi to be released early after ICC cuts sentence by two years

December 1, 2021

By Janet Sankale janet.sankale@jfjustice.net Former Mali Islamist rebel leader Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, the first suspect to plead guilty...

The Gambia President Adama Barrow receives the final Truth, Reconciliation and Reparation Commission, TRRC Report handed to him by the the TRRC Chairman, Dr. Lamin J Sise. Photo: TRRC Facebook

TRRC in last-ditch efforts to make its final report public

bySanna Camara

November 30, 2021

Faced with the criticism and disappointment that greeted the release of its much-awaited final report last week after it became...

Dominic Ongwen's appeal hearing coming up in February 2022. Photo credit: @ICC-CPI.

Ongwen’s appeal hearing to start in February 2022

byJournalists For Justice

November 26, 2021

By Janet Sankale janet.sankale@jfjustice.net The start of the hearing of the appeal of former Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen...

Prosecutor to call more witnesses when Yekatom, Ngaïssona trial resumes next week

byJournalists For Justice

November 24, 2021

By Waceke Njoroge bnjoroge@jfjustice.net The trial of Central African Republic nationals Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona at the International Criminal...

The TRRC recommends the prosecution of Yahya Jammeh and several senior officials in his administration for their role in committing rape and other forms of SGBV.Yahya Jammeh Photo: Facebook

Impunity is not an option: Human rights defenders push for prosecutions in The Gambia

byJournalists For Justice

November 19, 2021

Human rights abusers recommended for prosecution in the much-awaited report of The Gambia’s truth commission must be held criminally accountable...

Judge Miatta Maria Samba Presiding Judge in the case of The Prosecutor v. Paul Gicheru. Photo credit: @ICC/CPI

ICC plenary rejects bid to disqualify Gicheru trial judge

byJournalists For Justice

November 18, 2021

By Janet Sankale janet.sankale@jfjustice.net Judge Miatta Maria Samba will continue hearing the case against Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru after the...

Mr Abd–Al-Rahman during the opening of the confirmation of charges hearing at the seat of the Court in The Hague (The Netherlands) on 24 May 2021 ©ICC-CPI

Sudan situation on agenda of Abd-Al-Rahman status conference

byJournalists For Justice

November 11, 2021

By Janet Sankale janet.sankale@jfjustice.net The International Criminal Court will hear an update about the situation in Sudan after a military...

ICC detains Abd-Al-Rahman for four more months

byJournalists For Justice

November 3, 2021

By Janet Sankale Janet.sankale@jfjustice.net Mary Wasike mary.wasike@jfjustice.net The International Criminal Court has once again extended the detention of former Janjaweed...

People hold candles in front of a backdrop showing Beijing's Tiananmen Square during a vigil in Hong Kong on June 4, 2018, to mark the 29th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. Credit: Anthony Wallace/AFP

Amnesty International exit turns spotlight on shrinking civil rights space in Hong Kong

byJournalists For Justiceand1 others

October 29, 2021

bnjoroge@jfjustice.net Amnesty International is the latest casualty of China’s national security law for Hong Kong, which has swept away civil...

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