On September 27, 2016, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi – a former leader in the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) associated movement, Ansar Eddine – for the war crime of destruction of…
Case Name: The Prosecutor v. Laurent Gbagbo Date: June 12, 2014 Alleged Violations: Crimes against humanity, Murder, Rape, Inhumane Acts, Attempted Murder, Persecution On June 12, 2014, a majority of Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court confirmed the…
Photo of United Nations personnel training members of FARDC via Flickr user United Nations Photo, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Following the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Rwandan Hutus fled the country and many settled in neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo…
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…