ICC Cases

By Thomas Verfuss, Journalists for Justice Many diplomats, representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other advocates of a fair, independent and efficient International Criminal Court (ICC) breathed a sigh of...

New battle lines opened up between Kenya and the International Criminal Court after judges found that the government had failed to honour prosecution requests for information in the case against...

The United States said it had imposed economic sanctions on the Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony's two sons, saying they were commanders in the rebel group blamed for extreme...

South Sudan journalist, Michael Christopher, was last week arrested in the capital, Juba.Christopher, the editor-in-chief of the independent Arabic-language daily al-Watan, was arrested by the National Security Service after his paper allegedly...

By Journalists For Justice Hearings in a case filed by eight survivors of police rape, gang-rape and forcible male circumcision by civilians during the post-2007 election violence resume at the...

INTERVIEW IN FULL Q: All the Kenya cases at the ICC have collapsed. What do you think went wrong? First, I just want to express my dismay and sadness for...

Congolese warlord Jean Pierre Bemba will serve 10 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by his troops in the Central African Republic.Judges who had presided...

By Joyce J Wangui Testimony by a victim of sexual crime “is the most valuable evidence” a judge can use to adjudicate a case, an international criminal investigation and prosecutions...

By Kafia Omar At his inauguration ceremony recently, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni stated the ICC was “a bunch of useless people.” Among the dignitaries present was Sudan’s President Omar-al Bashir,...

Victims of atrocity crimes have asked the International Criminal Court to hand warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba the maximum 30 years jail sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Two victims...