May 16, 2014March 15, 2018 by Taegin Reisman Open Society Justice Initiative Participates in Transitional Justice Debate The Open Society Justice Initiative is participating in a new online discussion started this week on transitional justice in practice, which looks at how transitional justice processes are understood and…
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo May 13, 2014September 2, 2020 by Wairagala Wakabi Bemba’s Former Lawyer Wants ICC Judge Off Evidence Tampering Case …and Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo. Similar charges were brought against two other former aides to Mr. Bemba, a former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Investigators tapped phone calls…
International Criminal Court May 9, 2014May 10, 2021 by Tom Maliti Who are the Eight Witnesses Unwilling to Testify in the Trial of Ruto and Sang? - Part 2 …arranged several face-to-face meetings, but the witness did not show up. The last time the prosecution spoke to Witness 397 was August 2, 2013. After that his phone was switched…
International Criminal Court April 10, 2014May 10, 2021 by Tom Maliti Defense lawyer challenges expert witness on location of burnt structures …buy was one that covered 25 square kilometres. He said the coordinates he was given would fall within such an area, but they would not be the sole thing visible…
April 10, 2014March 15, 2018 by Alison Cole 20 Years After the Rwandan Genocide - “Never Again” is Personal …I held in common with my future colleagues. A twist of fate led me to working on the cases prosecuting the genocide. I was a graduate student after law school…
International Criminal Court March 31, 2014May 11, 2021 by Tom Maliti Witness Recounts Ethnic Violence and Fear …to the public. The witness told Trial Chamber V (a) that when he approached a road block controlled by young Kalenjin men he hid his identity card and mobile phone…
International Criminal Court March 20, 2014May 11, 2021 by Taegin Reisman & Eva Nudd Witness Protection Measures: What’s Happening in the Ruto and Sang Trial is Not Unique …the Kenya cases and the ICC in general, complained in September, on the website of the Daily Nation, that “closing sessions during cross examination of protected witnesses is “unfair”: “It…
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo March 13, 2014September 2, 2020 by Wairagala Wakabi Prosecutor Asks For More Time to Prepare New Case Against Bemba …civilians in the Central African Republic. This trial opened in late 2010 and presentation of oral evidence ended last November. Among items seized from the suspects were their mobile phones,…
International Criminal Court March 7, 2014May 11, 2021 by Tom Maliti Witness and defense lawyer clash during Ruto and Sang trial …Hooper told the witness that her mobile phone records showed that she was in Trans-Nzoia area in early January 2008 and not Kapsabet as she had told the court. Witness…
Germain Katanga & Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui March 7, 2014September 2, 2020 by Jennifer Easterday Germain Katanga found Guilty by the ICC …the prosecution had failed to prove a link between Ngudjolo and the FNI militia. The full judgment and minority opinion in the Katanga case is available on the ICC website….