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Month: November 2019

7 November 2019 by AFP
Congolese 'Terminator' warlord to be sentenced at ICC International Criminal Court Judges will on Thursday sentence Congolese rebel chief Bosco "Terminator" Ntaganda after he was convicted earlier this year of war crimes and sexual slavery. Ntaganda faces life in prison for a litany [...]
7 November 2019 by AFP
Forensic experts exhume remains of victims of El Salvador's civil war An international team of forensic experts on Wednesday exhumed the remains of 11 people killed by soldiers during the infamous El Mozote massacre in El Salvador's 1980-1992 civil war. The new find will be part of a case against so [...]
6 November 2019 by AFP
ICC has info on location of Kadhafi son, other Libya fugitives: prosecutor The International Criminal Court has "reliable information" about the location of one of former dictator Moamer Kadhafi's sons as well as two other Libyan war crimes fugitives, prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told the UN Security Counci [...]
6 November 2019 by AFP
Rwanda trial marks end of sister's long struggle A quarter of a century since extremist leaders unleashed death squads in the hills of Rwanda, Martine Beckers' quest for genocide justice may be nearing an end. The 70-year-old Belgian former EU civil servant lost three close rela [...]
6 November 2019 by AFP
Sudan rebels insist new parliament be formed only after peace deal Sudanese rebel groups engaged in peace talks with Khartoum insisted Wednesday that the country's new parliament be formed only after an agreement is reached to end long-running conflicts in three border regions. A power-sharing de [...]
6 November 2019 by AFP
Serbian undertakers live it up at spooky annual ball Platters groaning with food, free-flowing drinks and spirited songs and dances: one could mistake it for a Serbian wedding were it not for the gigantic coffin-shaped cake at the annual ball for undertakers. Set in a cavernous rest [...]
6 November 2019 by AFP
CORRECTED: Sudan PM talks of peace on maiden trip to Darfur Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said Monday his government was working towards bringing peace to war-torn Darfur as he met hundreds of victims of the conflict who demanded swift justice. Hamdok's one-day visit was his first [...]
5 November 2019 by AFP
Srebrenica survivors protest Handke's Nobel prize Women from Srebrenica, site of the worst massacre during Yugoslavia's bloody collapse, protested in Sarajevo on Tuesday against the award of the Nobel literature prize to Peter Handke, an Austrian accused of being a Serb apologist [...]
5 November 2019 by Franck Petit
Françoise Mathe: The traps of universal jurisdiction JUSTICEINFO.NET IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Françoise Mathe Criminal lawyer at the Toulouse Bar and co-founder of Lawyers without Borders (ASF) France This Thursday, November 7, a new universal jurisdiction trial opens in Brussels against [...]
4 November 2019 by AFP
Rwanda official on trial in Belgium over 1994 genocide A former senior Rwandan official went on trial in Belgium on Monday accused of taking part in the 1994 genocide in his country. Friends and relatives of the alleged victims of 71-year-old Fabien Neretse were present as he arrived [...]
4 November 2019 by AFP
Sudan PM talks of peace on maiden trip to Darfur Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said Monday his government was working towards bringing peace to war-torn Darfur as he met hundreds of victims of the conflict who demanded swift justice. Hamdok's one-day visit was his first [...]
4 November 2019 by AFP
Sudan PM talks of peace on maiden trip to Darfur Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said Monday his government was working toward bringing peace to war-torn Darfur as he met hundreds of victims of the conflict who demanded swift justice. Hamdok's one-day visit was his first a [...]
4 November 2019 by Claude Sengenya
Bukavu awaits militia leader’s judgment in troubled region The military court in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, will on 12 November hand down its verdict in the trial of militia leader Frédéric Masudi Alimasi, known as "Koko di Koko". He is on trial with four other men for [...]
3 November 2019 by AFP
Sudan protest group has 'no objection' to handing Bashir to ICC The protest movement that led to the ouster of Sudan's longtime president Omar al-Bashir said Sunday it was not against handing over the deposed autocrat to the International Criminal Court to be tried for genocide. Bashir, who wa [...]
1 November 2019 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Witnesses testify of rape by Yahya Jammeh Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has continued to hear testimonies about sexual abuse under the military regime of Yahya Jammeh. Witnesses have portrayed the former president as a sexual predator, includin [...]