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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]
6 Aug 2017, 9:16 am
[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
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]
19 Oct 2010, 11:59 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] ruled [judgment, PDF; press release] Tuesday that the war crimes trial of former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder] vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba [ICC materials; JURIST news archive] can proceed. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 9:34 am
The Democratic Republic of Congo law enforcement on Wednesday used tear gas and water cannons on protesters in front of parliament who were rallying against a proposed law that would put prosecutors under the authority of the government instead of the courts. [read post]
2 Sep 2010, 9:36 am
The United Nations announced today that a much anticipated report documenting the most serious human rights violations committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1993 and 2003 will be made public on October 1, 2010. [read post]
21 Dec 2008, 7:05 pm
Media Corp News reports: Hollywood actor Ben Affleck and British rock luminary Mick Jagger have launched a media campaign to draw awareness to the refugees hit by the recent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 5:03 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Tuesday urged [press release] Congolese authorities to bring to justice those who commanded rebel troops to commit killings, rapes, mutilations and child abductions across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [read post]
15 May 2012, 12:39 pm
The Democratic Republic of Congo, Case No. 10-15137. [read post]
10 Sep 2008, 7:35 pm
A herd of goats has managed to escape justice after a government official found them sitting in jail in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. [read post]
19 Dec 2005, 1:39 pm
[JURIST] The International Court of Justice [official website], ruled Monday that Uganda violated the sovereignty of the Democratic Republic of Congo during a 1998-2003 war [BBC backgrounder] and was responsible for human rights abuses and the plundering of Congolese natural resources. [read post]
1 Jan 2024, 10:14 am
Multiple opposition presidential candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rejected the provisional election results Sunday, which incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi was announced to have won, and urged supporters to mobilize. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 8:14 am
“The government’s decision to reinstate executions is a gross injustice for people sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” said Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 7:30 am
An Italian judge ruled on Tuesday that two UN agency employees cannot be tried over the deaths of an Italian ambassador, his bodyguard and a driver in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to Rome daily newspaper Fatto Quotidiano. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 5:41 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council [official website] on Thursday reiterated their condemnation [press release] of a group of renegade soldiers attempting to destabilize the Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) known as the 23 March Movement (M23). [read post]
16 May 2021, 7:01 am
State Department designated the Islamic State’s affiliate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ISIS-DRC) a foreign terrorist organization and the group’s leader, Musa Baluku, a specially designated global terrorist. [read post]
6 Jan 2024, 12:45 pm
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) election commission (CENI) reported on Saturday that it canceled votes cast for 82 out of 101,000 candidates in legislative and local polls held in December for their involvement in alleged fraud and other issues that disrupted the general election according to a press release posted to X. [read post]
