Domestic Court Cases

By The Center for Justice and Accountability For the first time since the end of Liberia’s bloody civil wars, representatives of government, UN, civil society, and diplomatic missions discuss steps...

By Amadou Jallow Gambia’s truth-seeking process kicked off this week with the swearing in of 11 commissioners as the International Criminal Court pledged to keep a watchful eye on the...

By Susan Kendi Judges have adjourned the trial of former Lord’s Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo to November 5, 2018, to allow for the translation and interpretation of the charges...

ByLino Owor Ogora The trial of Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) began this week before the International Crimes Division (ICD) sitting at the High...

By Susan Kendi How does a multiple victim of war become the foremost defender of an alleged war crimes perpetrator? Like many of his fellow citizens, lawyer Nicholas Opiyo bears...

By Tom Maliti,IJ Monitor Two members of Dominic Ongwen’s defense team – his lead lawyer Krispus Ayena Odongo and Thomas Obhof – sat down with the International Justice Monitor on...

 Human Rights Watch has produced a 10-minute video "The Trial of Hissène Habré"  highlighting the historic trial of former  Chadian dictator Hissène Habré, who was brought to justice by victims...

 Questions are lingering over steps Rwanda will take after the African Court on Human and People’s Rights ruled that an opposition leader’s rights had been violated. Victorie Ingabire returned from...

The U.S. Government’s immigration fraud case against Liberian citizen, Pennsylvania resident and alleged war criminal Jabbateh, a/k/a “Jungle Jabbah” begins on October 2, 2017 in Philadelphia. Jabbateh has been charged...

 By Tom Maliti, IJ Monitor The International Criminal Court (ICC) heard for the first time witness testimony of the last moments of the deputy leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army...