Posts Tagged ‘lies’


March 19, 2010

Lubanga Trial Hears That Intermediary Coached Prosecution Witness

By Wairagala Wakabi

A former prosecution witness who told court last June that he had lied to investigators of the International Criminal Court (ICC) this week took the witness stand once again and stated that an intermediary of the court’s prosecution investigators cooked up lies which he in turn fed to the investigators. The witness added, however, that…

March 18, 2010

Witness Says Court Officials Ignored Him

By Wairagala Wakabi

A witness today told the Thomas Lubanga trial that some officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC) repeatedly ignored him when he sought means of confessing that he had told lies to the court prosecution’s investigators. ‘Witness 15’, as he was referred to in court, was originally a prosecution witness. But when he testified briefly…