Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo September 21, 2016September 2, 2020 by Wairagala Wakabi Verdict in ICC’s First Witness Tampering Trial Scheduled for October 19 …as an inducement for them to provide false testimony. Furthermore, the prosecution claims that defense lawyers coached witnesses and maintained improper contacts with them, including making phone calls to the…
Laurent Koudou Gbagbo & Charles Blé Goudé September 20, 2016September 14, 2020 by Camille Dubruelh Credibility of Testimonies Gathered by UNOCI is Challenged by the Defense …call center, set up by the UN operation to take calls from victims of human rights violations. Gbagbo’s lawyers sought to know if people heard on the phone could be…
Laurent Koudou Gbagbo & Charles Blé Goudé September 19, 2016September 14, 2020 by Camille Dubruelh UN Employee is Forced to Testify Openly …phone, these people obeyed the orders of their Secretary-General, “Mr. Charles Blé Goudé,” according to the witness, who added that she was directly threatened by some of these young people….
Bosco Ntaganda September 14, 2016April 22, 2021 by Wairagala Wakabi Ntaganda Continues Hunger Strike, Stalls Trial …mother’s phone. “I feel too ill to come to the court, I am too weak to come to court…I cannot overcome this ill feeling. Reading, religion, sport, work do help…
Laurent Koudou Gbagbo & Charles Blé Goudé September 2, 2016September 14, 2020 by Camille Dubruelh The Women's March at the Heart of Obiénéré Ouattara’s Testimony …towards the Agban camp to take over. Shortly after the departure of the vehicles, “I received a phone call telling me that our men had fired shots on women,” said…
Laurent Koudou Gbagbo & Charles Blé Goudé September 1, 2016September 14, 2020 by Camille Dubruelh Obiénéré Narrates the March on the RTI and Counts the Dead …march. It was then through phone calls that he was informed of how things were getting out of hand. Early in the morning, the head of Abobo Commando Camp decided…
August 23, 2016March 15, 2018 by Tom Maliti Timbuktu Residents Protested the Destruction of Historic Buildings, Witness Says …public gallery, and for people following the proceedings online, his face and voice were distorted. A significant part of the testimony of Witness P-431 was made in closed court. He…
August 22, 2016March 15, 2018 by Tom Maliti Al Faqi Pleads Guilty to War Crime Charge, Apologizes to Malians …testifying under protective measures that include his face and voice being distorted so the public streaming the court proceedings online cannot identify him. Also the witness is identified in public…
Guatemala Trials August 19, 2016December 15, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt Lucas García, Former Head of the Military High Command, to be Charged in Molina Theissen Case …Comunitaria published a video on their website documenting the incident. Security guards, who are members of the National Police, also sought to prevent photographers and journalists from entering the room…
Laurent Koudou Gbagbo & Charles Blé Goudé August 18, 2016September 14, 2020 by International Justice Monitor Understanding the Principle of Complementarity in Côte d’Ivoire …at the best approach for national prosecutors dealing with crimes of interest to the ICC. This is particularly true when one considers that, for the Ivorian authorities after the post-election…