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24 Nov 2009, 10:39 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] at The Hague began proceedings [press release] on Tuesday for the trial of two Congolese nationals [ICC backgrounder] believed to be responsible for the killings of more than 200 men, women, and children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2003. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 7:49 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday urged participants in the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [official website, in French; BBC profile] to respect human rights and international law [UN News Centre report]. [read post]
29 Sep 2015, 5:22 am
[JURIST] A court in Stuttgart, Germany, on Monday sentenced two Rwandan rebel leaders to multi-year jail sentences for their roles in a series of massacres in the Dominican Republic of the Congo in 2008 and 2009. [read post]
20 May 2016, 11:10 am
[JURIST] Moise Katumbi, Democratic Republic of Congo [BBC backgrounder] presidential hopeful, was indicted on Thursday for hiring foreign mercenaries. [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 11:04 am
[JURIST] Spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) [official website], Babar Baloch, said in a press release [text] on Friday that over 11,000 refugees from the Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have recently escaped to Angola due to violence in their province. [read post]
3 Dec 2008, 7:38 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday temporarily postponed [decision, PDF] proceedings against former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [JURIST news archive] rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba [ICC profile; JURIST news archive] because another member of the pre-trial chamber was granted a leave of absence due to "grave family [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 10:04 am
[JURIST] Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] leader Callixte Mbarushimana [case materials] made his initial appearance [press release] before the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Friday and denied the charges against him, which relate to violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in 2009. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 5:24 am
Got an email from Steven Pong at Asia Society to take a look at The Fires Within: Sri Lanka at War, described as a “project, which attempts to document the humanitarian costs of the civil war, shows the work of photojournalist Ron Haviv, who has worked in conflict areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, and [...] [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 6:14 am
[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] called Tuesday for an end to the supply of arms [press release] to groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 6:22 am
The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Tuesday decided [judgment, PDF] to release Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo [BBC profile], the former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 11:05 am
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to respect international standards of due process [press release] during the appeal in the case of Floribert Chebeya, a Congolese human rights defender who was murdered in 2010. [read post]
27 Aug 2004, 8:03 am
Simon Mann, an ex-SAS officer and British citizen, claimed that he and 69 associates had been hired to provide security at diamond mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (see this Paper Chase report on an earlier phase [read post]
23 Sep 2016, 6:41 am
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official website] warned [press release] Thursday that conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will deteriorate unless there is accountability for the atrocities against civilians. [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 10:43 am
Delegates from the UN Security Council (UNSC) [official website] on Sunday called on [UN News Centre report] officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to take greater responsibility to adopt a consensual and inclusive electoral calendar. [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 11:00 am
[JURIST] A spokesperson for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Lambert Mende, announced Wednesday that President Joseph Kabila [Forbes backgrounder] signed parliament-approved legislation to keep elections on a timeline that will not violate the Constitution [text, PDF]. [read post]
14 Nov 2015, 10:11 am
[JURIST] Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] on Friday granted early release [decision, PDF; press release] to convicted war criminal Germain Katanga from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 1:44 pm
Mbarushimana will be tried [BBC report] on allegations that he committed 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] last year. [read post]
2 Sep 2010, 9:14 am
[JURIST] The UN announced Thursday that it will delay the release of a report [UN News Centre report] that accuses Rwandan forces of committing acts of genocide in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] during the years following the 1994 Rwandan genocide [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
10 Sep 2008, 7:15 pm
But at least they're not, well, animals:A minister in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered a Kinshasa jail to release a dozen goats, which he said were being held there illegally. [read post]
27 Jul 2011, 10:55 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Tuesday urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to arrest suspected war criminal Bosco Ntaganda [case materials], a Congolese general wanted [arrest warrant, in French] by the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] for war crimes. [read post]
