4 – Citizens in Berabati and Bangui pose questions for this program.
5 – Rights and legal recourse on the road
17 – Jean Pierre Kilenda, Avocat pour Matthieu Ngodjolo
16 – ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo speaks with IRfJ journalist Jean Pierre Kabulabo in The HagueHappy New Year!
Interactive Radio for Justice starts 2010 with our first program produced in Kasugho, DRC, an isolated town in North Kivus, DRC. Despite continued insecurity the team in Kasugho is recording questions on human rights and the law within their community and bringing answers from authorities back to their listeners through IRfJ programming.
IRfJ programs produced during December are described below, you can find them all on this website.
Program 1 in the IRfJ-Kasugho series Questions posed in this program include; What authority is responsible for addressing sexual violence crimes?, How long can the police legally detain someone without a trial? and If Jean Pierre Bemba committed crimes in the DRC, will he be tried for these?
Program 3 in the IRfJ-Goma series Questions in this program include; If a child is born in a neutral zone, what is his/her nationality?, Can the military arrest me in my home? and If Rwanda refuses to surrender Laurent Nkunda, what will the ICC do?
Justice Magazine program 3 addresses security concerns for civilians in Bunia, specifically the problem of armed groups roaming neighborhoods at night. Chief of Bunia City, Pascal Dulenda Kabavios, is our invited guest.
Justice Magazine program 4 highlights challenges faced by sexual violence victims who are not receiving reparations after their perpetrators have been convicted. Major Innocent Mayembe Sangala, President of the Military Garrison Court in Bunia, is our invited guest.
In November last year IRfJ was in The Hague for the opening of the second trial at the International Criminal Court, for two presumed warlords from Ituri; Germain Katanga and Matthieu Ngudjolo. We were able to produce nine programs for our series Sur la Trace de la Justice, with material recorded directly from the trial chamber and from interviews held with key personalities in the trial. These nine programs have been broadcast throughout Ituri since the first days of the trial and throughout December and January. Three of these programs are described below:
Sur la Trace de la Justice 12 features the opening statements from the lawyers for participating victims the case, Maitre Jean-Luis Gillisen and Maitre Fidele Nsita Luvengika.
Sur la Trace de la Justice 13 presents the first witness in the case. The Chamber invited the Head of Investigations for the Office of the Prosecutor, whose identity is concealed during testimony, as the trial’s first witness in order to better understand the conditions in which investigations were conducted. The witness’s presentation is followed by questions from Presiding Judge Bruno Cotte, Judge Fatou Dembele Diarra and Judge Christine van den Wyngaert.
Sur la Trace de la Justice 14 In this program the defense teams cross-examine the first witness in the trial, who is the Head of Investigations for the Office of the Prosecutor.
Thank you for your interest in IRfJ, your comments and ideas are welcome!
Sincerely,
Wanda E Hall
Director and Founder
Interactive Radio for Justice