REDRESS was recently granted leave to make a submission to the International Criminal Court (ICC) an as “amicus curiae” during Germain Katanga’s reparation phase. Katanga is currently serving a 12-year sentence after his March 2014 conviction for crimes against humanity…
On Tuesday, January 6, 2015, a man claiming to be Dominic Ongwen, one of the Lord’s Resistance Army’s (LRA) top commanders, surrendered to United States military forces in Central African Republic. The following day Ugandan authorities confirmed his identity and…
Case No. ICC-01/04/01/06Judgment on the appeal of Mr. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo against his conviction December 1, 2014 Convicted under Article 8(a)(e)(vii) of the Rome Statute and Appealed from the Trial Judgment Overview On December 1, 2014, the Appeals Chamber of…
Written by Alanna Kennedy, 1L at WCL, and edited by Katherine Cleary Thompson, Assistant Director of the War Crimes Research Office Case No. ICC-01/04/01/06Judgment on the appeal of Mr. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo against his conviction December 1, 2014 Convicted under Article…
REDRESS, along with other human rights organizations, is praising a recent decision by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) to investigate and prosecute the alleged arbitrary arrest and torture of three prominent human rights defenders in Sudan. The…