Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo August 6, 2013September 2, 2020 by Matt Solomon In Recent CAR Coup, Echoes of Past Violence …enforceable international justice, the cycle of political instability and widespread destitution will continue until the next coup. Human Rights Watch has called on ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to continue to…
Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo July 8, 2013September 2, 2020 by Wairagala Wakabi Judges Admit NGO Reports Into Evidence Against Bemba …his troops against Central African civilians. In particular, this report described three instances of rape allegedly committed by the Congolese troops. Similarly, Amnesty International’s report described a previous intervention by…
Germain Katanga & Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui July 8, 2013September 2, 2020 by Jennifer Easterday Trial Chamber Majority Grants Defense Leave for Further Investigations …majority considered, it was only logical for it to state that the FRPI combatants had the intent to commit each crime. Moreover, this intent was addressed in several instances in…
Efrain Rios Montt & Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez June 18, 2013September 14, 2020 by Emi MacLean One Month After Guatemala’s Constitutional Court Intervenes to Challenge Rios Montt Genocide Conviction: Amnesty Back on the Table, New Trial Court Booked Till Mid-2014, and Rios Montt Back Home …of the amnesty cannot retroactively take this “right” away from him. According to Rios Montt, any international law that suggests otherwise is either wholly irrelevant or inapplicable in this instance….
International Criminal Court June 7, 2013May 11, 2021 by Tom Maliti Kenya sends mixed signals on the ICC – Part 4 In this final installment of a four-part series, ICC Kenya Monitor writes about the previous diplomatic efforts to have the Kenya cases deferred and asks what all this current activity…
Efrain Rios Montt & Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez May 28, 2013September 14, 2020 by Emi MacLean Uncertainty Hovers Over Next Stages in Historic Guatemala Genocide Case After Constitutional Court Overturns Conviction …in Guatemala. The New York Times, for instance, issued an editorial describing the Constitutional Court’s judgment as a “serious setback in the effort to demand accountability for those terrifying years…
Efrain Rios Montt & Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez May 18, 2013September 14, 2020 by Raquel Aldana 718 page Rios Montt judgement released: all eyes on Constitutional Court …underneath is scrawled “To the Constitutional Court.” It is meant to recall the war, and perhaps threaten further instability. And its message is clearly directed at the judges who have…
Efrain Rios Montt & Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez May 16, 2013September 14, 2020 by Emi MacLean Imminent Constitutional Court Judgments May Affect Guatemalan Genocide Conviction …additional questions. For instance, during a nearly two-week suspension of the trial, called to seek constitutional review of the order of a pre-trial judge to annul the trial in its…
Efrain Rios Montt & Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez May 13, 2013September 14, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt Rios Montt Convicted of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: The Sentence and Its Aftermath …instance, telegrams annexed to Plan Operacion Sofia establish that children were captured and detained in military installations, and that the military had control of the population. The court found that…
Efrain Rios Montt & Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez May 10, 2013September 14, 2020 by Jo-Marie Burt Judgment in Genocide Trial Expected Today at 4 pm Despite Pre-trial Judge's Call for Trial's Annulment …Immediately following the closing of the trial by Judge Barrios and the trial court, Judge Carol Patricia Flores, a first-instance judge of Guatemala’s high-risk courts, intervened in a repeated effort…
