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Prosecutor says ICC is fair, independent and impartial
ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda gave this keynote address at the GIMPA law conference in Ghana in March this year. This article is an abridged version of her remarks. By Fatou...
Read moreDetailsGovernment pushed for Gado’s exit from the Nation
One of Kenya's wittiest cartonists, Godfrey Mwampembwa, was kicked out of Nation for allegedly rubbing leaders the wrong way with his illustrations. By Journalists For Justice Renowned cartoonist Godfrey Mwampembwa,...
Read moreDetailsAU asks UN Security Council to end Ruto trial and defer Bashir case
The African Union has written to the Chairperson of the United Nations Security Council over the deferral of Sudan situation and termination of the Mr. William Ruto case at the...
Read moreDetailsDon’t speculate on how Ruto’s No-Case-to-Answer will go, says ICC official
Maria Mabinty Kamara, the ICC outreach coordinator for Kenya and Uganda has said judges of the Trial Chamber V(A) will decide in due course on the no-case-to-answer matter and its...
Read moreDetailsICC Appeals Chamber reverses Trial Chamber V(A)’s decision on admission of prior recorded testimony in Ruto and Sang cases
Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court unanimously ruled key witness testimony against Mr. William Ruto and Journalist Joshua Sang inadmissible. "The prior recorded testimony was delivered without an opportunity...
Read moreDetailsICC Appeals judges to rule on Friday if recanted witness testimony can be used in the Ruto and Sang cases
Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto (left) and Joshua Sang at the ICC ICC appeals judges will rule this Friday on whether the recanted testimony of several prosecution witnesses will be...
Read moreDetailsICC Appeal judges to rule on use of recanted testimony in Ruto case
Five judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC)will on Friday evening decide an appeal by William Ruto and Joshua arap Sang challenging the decision by the tiral chamber to allow...
Read moreDetailsGbagbo and Ble Goude plead ‘not guilty’ to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has pleaded not guilty to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. His co-accused Charles Ble Goude also pleaded not guilty to the...
Read moreDetailsOpening of the trial in the Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Ble Goude case on Thursday
The trial in the case of The Prosecutor v. Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé is scheduled to open on Thursday, 28 January 2016 before Trial Chamber I of the...
Read moreDetailsDominic Ongwen faces 70 war crime charges
The Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court on Thursday unveiled 70 charges of war crimes against Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen, including keeping sex slaves and recruiting child...
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