Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo August 2, 2018September 2, 2020 by Olivia Bueno Impact of the Bemba Acquittal Already Seen in the Democratic Republic of Congo …Congolese website said: “Today it is a miracle that the majority of the appeals judges (3 of 5) had sufficiently cool heads to avoid the intoxication of the court as…
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo August 2, 2018September 2, 2020 by Wairagala Wakabi Bemba Arrives in Congo But Can He Run for President? …formation of a coalition of opposition groups to name a joint presidential candidate. He was further reported as saying that he believed he would be the best candidate to represent…
Dominic Ongwen July 27, 2018May 11, 2021 by Jane Patricia Bako One Step Forward, One Step Back: The Fate of Victims Before the International Crimes Division of Uganda …of Procedure and Evidence. Borrowing some of the best practices of the ICC and applying them to the Ugandan context is one way to help ensure the adjudication of cases…
July 24, 2018 by Wairagala Wakabi Confirmation of Charges Hearing for Malian Militant Al Hassan Postponed to May 2019 …arrangements, such as instituting protective measures for witnesses, disclosing evidence to the defense, and translating relevant documents into Arabic, the language the accused understands best. Judge Péter Kovács, the Single…
Dominic Ongwen July 5, 2018May 11, 2021 by Tom Maliti Odongo: We Have Not Taken a Definitive Position on Filing a ‘No Case to Answer’ Motion …that we consistently fought for, his family to come up, just for basic fundamental human rights. Luckily, the registrar happened to make a few phone calls, found money for everybody…
Dominic Ongwen July 3, 2018May 11, 2021 by Tom Maliti Odongo: Ongwen Needs to be Handled ‘with Tender Care’ …with a severe limp. He has a hole in his leg the size of a full bulb of garlic, you could take … go to the store and buy a…
Bosco Ntaganda June 15, 2018April 22, 2021 by Wairagala Wakabi Ntaganda Lawyers Granted More Time to File Closing Brief …at the ICC, he said Kinyarwanda was the language he understood best. Subsequently, judges granted a defense request for large portions of the prosecution closing brief to be translated into…
Guatemala Trials June 7, 2018December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada Molina Theissen Case: Court Orders Creation of a Commission to Search for Disappeared Persons and Other Reparations …the website paraqueseconozca.blogspot.com. Jo-Marie Burt is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at George Mason University. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Washington Office…
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo June 5, 2018September 2, 2020 by Jonathan Birchall Bemba Appeal Judgment: New Fact Sheet …Open Society Justice Initiative has produced a fact sheet summarizing the issues involved, which can be downloaded as a pdf from the Open Society Foundations website by clicking here. …
Laurent Koudou Gbagbo & Charles Blé Goudé May 29, 2018September 14, 2020 by Abraham Kouassi Gbagbo and Blé Goudé Trial: Here's What Blocks the Work of Gbagbo’s Defense …on the court’s website Altit justified this request by the will of the defense to have a document “with no inaccuracies.” “It is all the more important for the Defense…