ICC Trial Chamber I rejects Thomas Lubanga Dyilo’s application for a stay of the proceedings
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, February 23, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — ICC Trial Chamber I rejects Thomas Lubanga Dyilo’s application for a stay of the proceedings
Situation: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Case: The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo
Today, 23 February 2011, Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a confidential written decision in which the Chamber refuses Thomas Lubanga Dyilo’s Defence application to stay the proceedings as an abuse of the process.
A public version of the decision will be issued in the near future and will be available on the ICC website.
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is accused of having committed, as co-perpetrator, war crimes of enlisting and conscripting children under the age of 15 years into the Forces patriotiques pour la libération du Congo (Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo) (FPLC), and using them to participate actively in hostilities in Ituri, a district of the eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), between September 2002 and August 2003.
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