No release for Bagosora reflects sentencing policy switch
16 April 2021By Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.net
Colonel Théoneste Bagosora, the most high profile convict of the UN’s former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, will have to continue serving his 35-year prison sentence in Mali. His request for early release, after 25 years in jail, was denied on April 1, illustrating a profound change in sentencing policy.
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ICC to hand down judgment against former Lord s Resistance Army commander Reuters 2/3/2021
By Stephanie van den Berg
THE HAGUE, Feb 3 (Reuters) - War crimes judges on Thursday deliver their verdict in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier turned top commander in the Lord s Resistance Army, a rebel group known for extreme violence and forcing women into sexual slavery.
Ongwen, 45, faces 70 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and could be imprisoned for life if convicted. Judges will not address sentencing on Thursday.
The ruling at the International Criminal Court will be the first dealing with crimes by the LRA, New York-based Human Rights Watch said.