ICC Cases

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 On Monday, October 8, 2018, James Okot Ojwiya began testifying in the ongoing Dominic Ongwen trial as a witness for the defence. In 1989, around November, a...

By Susan Kendi  Dressed in a brown skirt suit and a checked blazer, Harriet Adong this past week came up as the third defence witness to testify in the Dominic Ongwen trial....

By Tom Maliti An ICC prosecution senior trial lawyer, Benjamin Gumpert, questioned Acholi chief Yusuf Okwonga Adek on Thursday about what was permitted in Acholi culture during war. Adek had told...

By Journalists For Justice (JFJ) Last week, Journalists For Justice (JFJ) hosted a visit by a number of African journalists who came to The Hague to find out more about...

By Susan Kendi On Monday, October 1, 2018, the first Defence witness took the stand to testify in the ongoing Dominic Ongwen trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). A white-haired man...

By Tom Maliti An Acholi chief narrated to the International Criminal Court (ICC) how he reprimanded the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony, for killing his deputy,...

 By Tom Maliti Dominic Ongwen’s lawyers have asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to dismiss all the charges against him for crimes he is alleged to have committed as a...

By Lino 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...

By Tom Maliti This Tuesday, lawyers for Dominic Ongwen will tell the International Criminal Court (ICC) that Ongwen cannot be held responsible for the crimes he has been charged with...