Domestic Court Cases
Total Uganda: 42 families expropriated in a summary trial
A small group of women – one with a child strapped in her back – from Uganda’s oil rich region of Bunyoro sat with anxiety in a half empty court...
Read moreDetailsThomas Sankara murder trial starts in Ouagadougou
The trial of 14 people facing charges in connection with the assassination of former Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara 34 years ago has started in the capital Ouagadougou. Former President...
Read moreDetailsIraq: Appeals Courts Ignoring Torture Claims
(Beirut, September 25, 2019) – A close study of appeals court decisions in terrorism-related cases in Iraq shows that judges in close to two dozen cases in an 18-month period appeared to...
Read moreDetailsICJ to consider DRC-Uganda reparation case after public hearings
The judges of the highest court in the world have started deliberating whether Uganda should pay over $11.4 billion in reparations for armed activities in the Democratic Republic of the...
Read moreDetailsKenyan SGBV victims wait with bated breath for Thursday’s judgment
This week, as commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence approaches its peak, thousands of victims of sexual violence committed during the 2007-08 post-election violence (PEV) in...
Read moreDetailsKenyan courts order Covid-19 rule breakers to pay fines, do community service
By Susan Kendi Courts set up to try people accused of breaking Covid-19-related regulations in the Nairobi area have ordered them to pay fines of up to 10,000 shillings or...
Read moreDetailsOppressive silence over justice for LRA’s female abductees
By Susan Kendi A hush has fallen on the International Criminal Court as judges deliberate on the fate the Lord’s Resistance Army commander who was charged with crimes against humanity,...
Read moreDetailsKwoyelo trial cements a tradition of dodging accountability in Uganda
By Susan Kendi Adecade after the capture of Lord’s Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo, his moribund trial at the International Crimes Division of the High Court in Uganda is an...
Read moreDetailsUgandans are not numb; they are only bottling up anger’
By Susan Kendi Inthe final part of JFJ’s three-part interview Chapter Four Uganda activist and former Kwoyelo lawyer Nicholas Opiyo explains that Ugandans have not been numbed by the atrocities...
Read moreDetailsLiberians urge President Weah to support civil war-era prosecutions
Liberian citizens called on President George Weah in a video released today by an array of local and international groups to support a war crimes court to bring justice for...
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