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International Criminal Court (ICC) - News and expert analyses
29 September 2015 by Stéphanie Maupas, Hague correspondent
CONGOLESE SENATOR BEMBA IN NEW ICC TRIAL Congolese Senator and former Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba again faces judges of the International Criminal Court in a new trial that started September 29. On trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in the Ce [...]
9 September 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
Ukraine gives ICC green light to probe alleged crimes in the East The Ukrainian government on Tuesday gave a green light to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate crimes committed on its territory since February 20, 2014, notably in the east of the country where some 8,000 people [...]
3 September 2015 by AFP
Bosco Ntaganda at the ICC, "I am a soldier, not a criminal' Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda told his war crimes trial Thursday he was 'a soldier, not a criminal', breaking his silence for the first time since surrendering to the International Criminal Court."I have been described as [...]
2 September 2015 by AFP
Africa in the dock at the ICC The International Criminal Court  has launched investigations in eight African countries. Here are details of the main indictments issued by the ICC, the world's first permanent international war crimes court. - Democratic Republi [...]
19 August 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
KENYA “NON-COOPERATION” BACK ON ICC AGENDA The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday ordered a re-examination of allegations that Kenya failed to cooperate with the Court in the case against its President Uhuru Kenyatta. If so, it said judges sho [...]
4 August 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.Net
ICC Should Learn Lessons from Côte d’Ivoire, Says Human Rights Watch Jurist The International Criminal Court (ICC) must broaden its investigation into the 2010-2011 post-election violence in Côte d’Ivoire to include violations committed by loyalists of President Alassane Ouattara, Human Rights Watch said [...]
29 July 2015 by AFP
'Strong evidence' of Israel war crimes on 'Black Friday': Amnesty An analysis of an Israeli assault in the Gaza Strip following the capture of one of its soldiers during last year's war in the Palestinian territory shows "strong evidence" of war crimes, Amnesty International said Wednesday. The [...]
29 July 2015 by AFP
International outcry after Libya sentences Kadhafi son to death A Libyan court Tuesday sentenced a son and eight aides of slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi to death for crimes during the 2011 uprising, in a verdict denounced by rights campaigners. The United Nations also said it was "deeply distur [...]
14 July 2015 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net
APPEAL FOR “URGENT” ARREST OF ICC-WANTED REBEL LEADER IN EASTERN CONGO The Democratic Republic of Congo government and United Nations peacekeepers should “urgently act to arrest the rebel leader Sylvestre Mudacumura and transfer him to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague”, says Human [...]
19 June 2015 by Serge Dumont, Tel Aviv correspondent
ISRAEL ABSOLVES ITS ARMY Israeli Military Prosecutor Danny Efroni said he was closing a case on the deaths of four Palestinian children killed by an Israeli missile on July 16, 2014, while playing football on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip. In so doin [...]
16 June 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
MOVE PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY DEBATE ON, SAYS FORMER AU ADVISOR South Africa’s failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir as he attended an African Union (AU) summit in Johannesburg has raised once again the issue of whether sitting heads of state should enjoy immunity from prosecutio [...]
15 June 2015 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Bashir-ICC Fiasco Undermines South Africa, Says Africa Expert Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir flew out of South Africa on Monday, defying a court order for him to stay, as judges weighed up whether he should be arrested for alleged war crimes and genocide. The International Criminal Court [...]
10 June 2015 by Stéphanie Maupas, Hague correspondent
Former ICC Witness Regrets Testifying Pierre Mbodina Iribi, an imprisoned ex-member of the Congolese intelligence services, is a former witness before the International Criminal Court (ICC). He has been in jail in Kinshasa for more than ten years. In spring 2011, he w [...]
28 May 2015 by Stéphanie Maupas
In Search of Justice for Syria The indictment against Syrian President Bachar Al-Assad is finally ready. All that is missing is a court to try him. The Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA), an organization set up at the beginning of th [...]
13 May 2015 by AFP
ICC "closely" watching Burundi violence: prosecutor International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda warned Friday her office would closely monitor the run-up to elections in Burundi and would not hesitate to prosecute perpetrators of "mass violence". Tensions are risin [...]
12 May 2015 by Stéphanie Maupas
Acquitted Congolese is an ICC Embarrassment The Hague, May 12, 2015 (FH) – Mathieu Ngudjolo, the first person to be acquitted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), was on Monday forcibly sent back to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ICC and Dutch authorities dismi [...]
11 May 2015 by Stéphanie Maupas
Testimony of an International Criminal Court Judge Bulgarian judge Ekaterina Trendafilova left The Hague in March after nine years at the International Criminal Court (ICC), during which she presided a court, became an appeals judge and came face to face with most of the ICC accus [...]