Interactive Radio For Justice is a project designed to encourage dialog between people in regions where the International Criminal Court (ICC) is investigating the most serious crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes) and the national and international authorities responsible for rendering justice to them. [more...]
Our radio partner in Kasugho, DRC has produced its first IRfJ program, which allows citizens in this isolated community in north Kivus access to justice authorities.
In this program they ask : how long someone can be detained before a trial, who is responsible for justice in sexual violence cases and if Jean Pierre Bemba will be held accountable at the ICC for crimes he committed in the DRC as well as those he’s accused of in the Central African Republic.
Presiding Judge Bruno Cotte invited the Head of Investigations for the Office of the Prosecutor, whose identity is protected, to testify as the trials’ first witness in order for the Chamber to better understand the conditions in which investigations were conducted for this case.
This program presents the opening statements from lawyers for participating victims in the trial. IRfJ journalist Jean Pierre Kabulabo (pictured) was able to record trial-material directly in the ICC press room.
Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo, Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and Senior Trial Lawyer Eric MacDonald make their opening statements in the 2nd case at the ICC.