A decade after its inception, the ICC is due to deliver its first judgment on Thomas Lubanga, a DRC warlord, accused of sending children into battle.
The ICC will hand down judgment in the trial of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga who is accused of enlisting child soldiers under 15 to fight.
The International Criminal Court ruled on Friday that the trial of an alleged Congolese warlord should resume after a three-month suspension.
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/ 2 February 2009
As the trial of Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga starts in The Hague, Stephanie Wolters wonders why his former deputy, Bosco Ntaganda, is still free.
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/ 30 January 2009
A former rebel fighter told ICC judges on Friday that children fought alongside hardened combatants in the Congolese militia leader’s forces.
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/ 29 January 2009
The first witness at the ICC’s inaugural war-crimes trial retracted his testimony on Wednesday after saying he was a former child soldier.
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/ 28 January 2009
A former child soldier told a war-crimes trial on Wednesday how he was recruited into a militia led by DRC warlord Thomas Lubanga.
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/ 27 January 2009
Lawyers for Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga denounced his war crimes trial as unfair on Tuesday, accusing prosecutors of abusing ICC rules.
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/ 27 January 2009
DRC warlord Thomas Lubanga was accused on Monday of press-ganging children and using them to kill and rape, as the ICC’s first trial opened.
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/ 26 January 2009
The first trial of the International Criminal Court is set to start in the Hague on Monday — that of Congolese militiaman Thomas Lubanga.
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/ 22 October 2008
An appeals panel of the International Criminal Court refused on Tuesday to free a Congolese warlord, but also rejected an appeal to restart his trial.
For the first time in international law victims of war crimes can take part in investigations and trials at the ICC.
Judges at the International Criminal Court have called an indefinite halt to the case against a Congolese militia leader and will decide next week.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for a fourth militia leader from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for recruiting child soldiers to fight in the country’s devastating civil war, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Bosco Ntaganda was charged for his actions during the conflict in the eastern province of Ituri.
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/ 18 October 2007
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Thursday transferred a militia chief to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to face war-crimes charges, including sexual enslavement and using child soldiers. Germain Katanga (29), who once led the Forces for Patriotic Resistance in Ituri, was flown out of Kinshasa early on Thursday.