Dear Readers, The following commentary first ran in Legal Eye on the ICC, a regular e-letter produced by the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, an international women’s human rights organisation that advocates for gender justice through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and works with women most affected by the conflict situations under investigation by the…
An intermediary, whose testimony was interrupted last July by the stay of proceedings in war crimes trial of Thomas Lubanga at the International Criminal Court (ICC), today took the witness stand afresh. However, he gave all his evidence in closed session. The witness, who goes by the code name ‘intermediary 321’, had testified for two days…
Appeals judges have asked victims participating in the prosecution’s appeal against the stay of proceedings in the war crimes trial of Thomas Lubanga to make public their filings in support of the resumption of the trial. On September 30, 2010, presiding judge Sang Hyun Song ordered the court’s registry to file a public redacted version of…
Prosecutors in the war crimes trial of Thomas Lubanga are set to interview a former suspect in the war crimes investigations by the Office of The Prosecutor (OTP) at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Judge Adrian Fulford on Tuesday gave prosecutors the greenlight to interview the suspect, who goes by the name of ‘Witness 3’.…
The eleventh witness called for Thomas Lubanga’s defense today started giving evidence, but mostly testified in closed session. Although he had earlier indicated that he would testify without protective measures, ‘Witness 23’ last Friday requested for protection, according to presiding judge Adrian Fulford. The judge said the witness had explained that he needed protective measures…
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…
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…
The tenth witness called by the defense of war crimes accused Thomas Lubanga today completed giving her testimony – all of it in camera. This witness started testifying yesterday, but defense lawyers indicated that they would need to get from prosecutors the name of an intermediary of the Office of The Prosecutor (OTP) before they…
Judges in the trial of alleged former Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga have today ordered prosecutors to reveal to the defense the identity of one of their intermediaries who has been accused of coaching witnesses. Judge Adrian Fulford said the judges had decided that the defense was entitled to know the identity of some of…
Prosecutors in the war crimes trial of Thomas Lubanga at the International Criminal Court (ICC) today dismissed a defense witness as a liar and a self-seeker whose testimony could not be believed. “You have lied to the Office of The Prosecutor (OTP) for the last four years. You cannot be believed now,” prosecutor Manoj Sachdeva…
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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