Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have today ordered the unconditional release of war crimes accused Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, who has been in detention in The Hague since March 2006. However, Mr. Lubanga – the first person to be tried at the ICC – would remain in detention if prosecutors appealed the release order.…
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) today halted proceedings in the war crimes trial of former Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga, citing abuse of the court’s process. They said the immediate cause of the stay of proceedings was the prosecution’s “unequivocal refusal to implement the repeated orders” made by judges for the disclosure of…
Former Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga told child soldiers to get women, cows, and vehicles, reassuring them that “everything belongs to soldiers,” according to testimony heard today at his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). A witness who worked with several former child soldiers made this claim today while testifying about one of the…
An intermediary of prosecution investigators today denied that he bribed former child soldiers or their parents to provide incriminating testimony against war crimes accused Thomas Lubanga. Testifying for the second day, the individual who goes by the court name of ‘intermediary 321’ said he did not ask or bribe anybody to provide false evidence. He…
Prosecutors have asked judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to call as a court witness a purported cousin of war crimes accused Thomas Lubanga to give evidence about his alleged role in intimidating witnesses and influencing them to give false testimony. The prosecutors suggested in a June 18, 2010 application that judges could alternatively…
Thomas Lubanga’s defense has said it will question the prosecution’s rebuttal witnesses about the responsibility of the Office of The Prosecutor (OTP) in the alleged corruption of evidence in the war crimes trial. Defense attorney Jean-Marie Biju-Duval on Thursday said that besides the rebuttal witnesses, the defense was also planning to question investigators from the…
The Thomas Lubanga war crimes trial will not sit for three days this week since there are no witnesses ready to testify. Earlier scheduled to be conducted for four days this week beginning today, the trial will now resume on Thursday. Mr. Lubanga’s defense has already called all the witnesses it had lined up to…
At least four prosecution witnesses will be called back to the witness stand to rebut evidence advanced by Thomas Lubanga’s defense, the Office of The Prosecutor (OTP) said today. Prosecuting attorney Manoj Sachdeva said that besides the four prosecution witnesses who testified last year, they were also trying to have at least two other individuals…
Judges in the Thomas Lubanga war crimes trial have directed prosecutors to reveal to the defense details of the professional backgrounds of the intermediaries they used in gathering evidence against the accused. At least two of the intermediaries will testify in the trial at the request of judges. An appeal by the Office of The…
Adrian Fulford, the presiding judge in the Thomas Lubanga war crimes trial, today directed prosecutors to expeditiously produce two of their investigators who are required to give evidence at the behest of the chamber. The judge rejected explanations by prosecutors that they could not readily locate the investigators. Judge Fulford rejected the prosecution’s explanation that…
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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