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13 Jun 2012, 8:33 am by Sung Un Kim
[JURIST] The office of prosecution of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] asked the court on Wednesday to sentence the convicted Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo [case material] to 30 years of imprisonment. [read post]
4 Apr 2010, 12:48 pm by Dwyer Arce
[JURIST] The Rwandan Supreme Court [official website] ruled on Saturday that the plea for release by Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rebel leader Laurent Nkunda [BBC profile] can only be heard by a military court. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 6:08 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Wednesday ordered [text, PDF; press release] former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba [ICC materials, JURIST news archive] to remain in custody until his trial next spring. [read post]
15 Mar 2012, 11:09 am by Jamie Reese
[JURIST] International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] said Thursday that he would seek the maximum sentence for recently convicted Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo [ICC materials]. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 8:48 am by Dan Taglioli
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] Wednesday issued its first verdict, a unanimous decision [judgment, PDF; press release] that Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo [ICC materials] is guilty of the war crimes of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of 15 and using them to participate actively in hostilities. [read post]
23 Jan 2015, 10:13 am by Steven Wildberger
[JURIST] The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Senate [official website, in French] on Friday amended the country's electoral law to permit the 2016 presidential election to go forth as scheduled, without the requirement of conducting a census. [read post]
6 Nov 2009, 12:08 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Thursday set the trial date [order, PDF; press release] for former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo [ICC materials; JURIST news archive] for April 27. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 12:49 pm by Maureen Cosgrove
[JURIST] A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder] on Thursday sentenced four policemen to death for killing prominent human rights activist Floribert Chebeya last year. [read post]
16 Nov 2006, 8:02 am
[JURIST] Democratic Republic of Congo [JURIST news archive] Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba [campaign website, in French; Wikipedia profile] said Thursday that he plans to use legal means to challenge the results from last month's run-off election [JURIST report] after officials announced Wednesday that he lost the presidency to Joseph Kabila [BBC profile; PPRD party website, in French] by 16 [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 2:19 am
[JURIST] Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo [JURIST news archive; ICC materials] arrested former Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI) leader Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui on Wednesday on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges and transferred [press release] him to the International Criminal Court [official website] at The Hague. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 11:36 am
[JURIST] The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder] announced Sunday that national police chief John Numbi has been suspended as part of the ongoing investigation into the murder of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya. [read post]
23 Jul 2005, 12:03 pm
[JURIST] A senior Royal Nepalese Army [official website] official said Saturday that six Nepalese soldiers who were part of a UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo [BBC country profile] have been convicted of sexual abuse. [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 9:30 am by Andrea Bottorff
[JURIST] Military forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) committed human rights violations during last year's presidential elections, according to a report [text, PDF] published Tuesday by the UN Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO), consisting of the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) and the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) [official websites]. [read post]
6 Aug 2017, 9:16 am by Rachel Gerber
[JURIST] Increasing violence in the Kasai provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become more ethnic-based, according to a report released [press release] Friday by a team of UN human rights investigators. [read post]
23 May 2014, 9:39 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
Katanga, the alleged commander of the Patriotic Resistance Forces in Ituri, an armed militia group from the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was convicted [JURIST report] in March on four counts of war crimes and one count of crimes against humanity. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 9:28 am
[JURIST] Senior UN officials on Thursday condemned the killing of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC country profile] and called for an investigation into his murder. [read post]
25 May 2008, 2:00 pm
[JURIST] Jean-Pierre Bemba [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], a former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo [JURIST news archive], was arrested [ICC press release] Saturday by Belgian authorities at his home outside of Brussels, after the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] issued a sealed warrant [PDF, in French; decision to unseal, PDF, in French] for his arrest [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 9:30 am by Matthew Santiago
[JURIST] The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) [official website] on Tuesday called on [press release] the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to protect all refugees and asylum seekers in the wake of a deadly shooting incident last week. [read post]
10 Jul 2012, 7:22 am by Rebecca DiLeonardo
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court [official website] sentenced [judgment, PDF; press release] convicted Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo [case materials] to 14 years in prison on Tuesday for his role in recruiting child soldiers. [read post]
19 Nov 2017, 6:18 pm by Douglas A. Berman
Here are excerpts: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa’s second-largest nation by area, is known for nefarious trade in copper, coltan, cobalt, tin and other minerals. [read post]