On December 3, 2010, Trial Chamber I issued an order on three prosecution applications for nondisclosure of information in the trial of Thomas Lubanga for war crimes. The defense filed objections to some, but not all of the nondisclosure requests. Issues surrounding disclosure came to the fore following ‘witness 15’s’ June 2009 in-court revelation that…
Identifying information the prosecution is required to disclose to the defense has been a matter of contention between the parties since before the start of the trial in January 2009. More recently, the prosecution’s refusal to disclose the identity of an intermediary it used to contact child soldiers led the Trial Chamber to suspend the…
The Lubanga trial will not be in regular session on Thursday or Friday this week. The chamber has been in the process of hearing defense allegations of abuse of process by the prosecution. The trial will resume, Monday, December 6.…
The war crimes trial of Thomas Lubanga reconvened this afternoon in The Hague to hear ‘witness 598,’ who the prosecutor substituted for ‘witness 555’ after he refused to testify. The hearing was closed to the public. Earlier, the prosecution announced that ‘witness 555’ would testify about the alleged climate of fear and intimidation in Bunia…
Thomas Lubanga on trial at the International Criminal Court. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is the first person to be tried by the International Criminal Court. A former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lubanga is accused of conscripting, enlisting, and using child soldiers. More
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