Recent Posts Tagged With 'lubanga'

• Lubanga Trial: Week 23 in Review – PROSECUTION REST ITS CASE

  Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 12:07 in congo, court, law, war crimes, icc, child soldier, lubanga, intl criminal ct, lubanga trial

  On Monday the trial resumed with the testimony of Christine Peduto, a child protection specialist for the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who told the Court that Lubanga kidnapped a child and forced him into the UPC. I...

• Lubanga Trial: Week 21 in Review

  Posted on Tuesday July 7th, 2009 at 09:49 in congo, war, law, trial, child soldier, lubanga, intl criminal ct, lubanga trial

  The trial resumed on Tuesday, June 30, as the witness, who recanted his testimony in the beginning of the trial and has now offered a new statement, which he says is true, requested that his new statement be kept confidential from the public and Luba...

• Lubanga Trial: Week 18 in Review

  Posted on Monday June 15th, 2009 at 10:01 in congo, human rights, child soldier, international criminal court, lubanga, intl criminal ct, lubanga trial

  On June 9, the witness who testified last week against Lubanga continued his testimony explaining to the defense why he had not originally mentioned to investigators that he had been a member of the UPC. “This story about the UPC, I will not tell i...

• Lubanga Trial: Week 14 in Review

  Posted on Monday May 18th, 2009 at 14:36 in congo, africa, law, child soldier, lubanga, intl criminal ct, lubanga trial, international criminal trial

  On Tuesday, Prof. Catherine Adamsbaum, a pediatric imagery expert invited by the Court to determine the ages of child soldiers in the UPC, testified that x-rays taken of former child soldiers indicate that they were 15 at the time of the x-ray in 200...

• Lubanga Trial Week 12 in Review

  Posted on Monday April 20th, 2009 at 06:38 in congo, law, trial, international criminal court, lubanga, intl criminal ct

  The Lubanga Trial is in recess and will resume May 5, at 9:30 AM. ...

• Lubanga Trial: Week 11 in Review

  Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 09:22 in congo, trial, child soldier, international criminal court, lubanga, intl criminal ct

  Endre Vestvik, CRN/Hope In Action - A former child soldier in DR Congo. The trial resumed on Tuesday, April 7 with the testimony of  psychologist Elisabeth Schauer who explained that many former child soldiers experience post traumatic stress disord...

• Lubanga Trial: Week 10 in Review

  Posted on Monday April 6th, 2009 at 17:18 in congo, trial, child soldier, drc, international criminal court, lubanga, intl criminal ct

  Endre Vestvik, CRN/Hope In Action - A former child soldier in a rehabilitation center in Beni, North Kivu, DR Congo. This past week, Lubanga’s control over the UPC as a military was put in question by Witness 17, who stated that “the army a...

• Lubanga Trial: Week 6 in Review

  Posted on Monday March 9th, 2009 at 07:23 in congo, child soldier, international criminal court, lubanga, intl criminal ct

  The following post was created by Kate Davey through sourcing from the reporting of Rachel Irwin for lubangatrial.org.  During this week, two former child soldiers testified about their experiences in battle and how they have since been affected by...

• Lubanga Trial: Week 5 in Review

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 07:05 in congo, war, human rights, trial, child soldier, international criminal court, lubanga, intl criminal ct

  The following post was created by Kate Davey through sourcing from the reporting of Rachel Irwin for lubangatrial.org. The trial resumed on Monday, February 23 with the cross-examination of the witness who testified last week that he had been cap...

• Lubanga Trial: Week 4 in Review

  Posted on Sunday February 22nd, 2009 at 22:18 in congo, children, war, human rights, child soldier, international criminal court, lubanga, intl criminal ct

  The following post was created by Kate Davey through sourcing from the reporting of Rachel Irwin for lubangatrial.org. On Monday, February 16, the trial resumed with the testimony of an unnamed witness, who identified Lubanga in a video giving ...

• Lubanga Trial: Week 3 in Review

  Posted on Monday February 16th, 2009 at 08:28 in congo, war, human rights, trial, child soldier, international criminal court, lubanga, intl criminal ct

  The following post was created by Kate Davey through sourcing from the reporting of Rachel Irwin for lubangatrial.org. The trial resumed on February 9th with the final day of the cross-examination of the father of the child soldier who recanted his t...

• Lubanga Trial: Second Week in Review

  Posted on Monday February 9th, 2009 at 08:22 in congo, africa, war, law, trial, conflict, child soldier, international criminal court, lubanga, intl criminal ct

  This entry is by Kate Davey, our legal analyst at Child Soldier Relief. According to Rachel Irwin of The Institute for War and Peace Reporting, the trial was delayed by a day by “unforeseen” circumstances when a Judge was unable to return...

• Lubanga’s trial starts, former child soldier testifies

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 11:10 in congo, human rights, icc, laws, child soldier, international criminal court, lubanga, intl criminal ct

  After opening statements by both the defense and the prosecution, the first witness took the stand today at Thomas Lubanga’s trial at the ICC in the Hague.  From the Associated Press: A former Congolese child soldier told a landmark internati...

• ICC orders Lubanga to remain in custody - immediate release no longer a possibility

  Posted on Thursday July 10th, 2008 at 20:10 in congo, africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, human rights, custody, icc, appeal, child soldier, child soldiers, drc, international criminal court, lubanga

  On Monday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) released a statement that Thomas Lubanga’s pending release from custody due to procedural issues - mistakes the prosecution made regarding confidentiality of key evidence - has been suspended.Â...

• Child soldier charges should include rape of young girls for Lubanga, Congolese rebel commander

  Posted on Tuesday May 13th, 2008 at 19:15 in congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, icc, United Nations, un, child soldier, drc, charles taylor, international criminal court, radhika coomaraswamy, thomas lubanga dyilo, lubanga

  Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, the former head of the UPC, was mentioned in the last posting.  He is facing trial this coming June for charges of recruiting and conscripting children under the age 15, and using them to participate actively in hostilities ...