Africa Cases
Ntaganda case draws to a close as parties ready to make closing statements
By Susan Kendi Lawyers for the parties and participating victims in the Bosco Ntaganda trial will make their closing statements before the Trial Chamber VI of the International Criminal Court for three consecutive...
Read moreDetailsOdongo: We have not taken a definitive position on filing a ‘No Case to Answer’ motion
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...
Read moreDetailsOdongo: Charges against Ongwen are really charges against the LRA
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...
Read moreDetailsOdongo: Ongwen Needs to be Handled with Tender Care
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...
Read moreDetailsJudge rejects Ongwen lawyers bid to unmask Ugandan spy
By Susan Kendi Dominic Ongwen’s lawyers will not be allowed to appeal a judge’s decision allowing the identity of an informant used by the prosecution to remain hidden. Bertram Schmitt, sitting as...
Read moreDetailsDominic Ongwen lawyers line up 66 witnesses for new hearing in September
By Tom Maliti, IJ Monitor The defense of Dominic Ongwen, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) who is on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC), intends...
Read moreDetailsBensouda prods UN Security Council to punish nations that fail to arrest Bashir
It is over 13 years since the UN Security Council referred the situation in Darfur to the International Criminal Court and directed me to report to it every six months...
Read moreDetailsAfter Bemba release, the ICC is a court with a heart and not much else
By Brian Obara Jean-Pierre Bemba’s stunning acquittal and interim release after 10 years at the ICC detention centre in The Hague has shocked even the most seasoned observers of international...
Read moreDetailsOngwen trial hurtles to a close as defence allocated 10 days to present first block of evidence
By Susan Kendi and Tom Maliti Lawyers for former Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen will begin presenting his defence on September 18, 2018 at the International Criminal Court. Subsequently,...
Read moreDetailsGetting away with genocide in Rwanda
By Brian Obara Did Paul Kagame’s commandoes who had infiltrated the Hutu militia fuel and escalate the genocide in Rwanda? And did the United Nations bury evidence of the involvement...
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