About the author(s):
Katharine Fortin is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University where she teaches IHL and IHRL. Before joining Utrecht University, she worked at the ICTY, ICC and Norton Rose Fulbright. She is the author of The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2017) which won the 2018 Lieber Prize. She has written widely about the framework of law that applies to armed groups in non-international armed conflicts and is one of the editors of the Armed Groups and International Law blog.
See link here for the live videostreaming of the ICC’s Confirmation of Charges Hearing in the case of Prosector v Bosco Ntagnada.
The ICC has issued two warrants of arrest for Bosco Ntaganda. As the former alleged Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Forces Patriotiques pour la Libération du Congo [Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo] (FPLC), Mr Ntaganda is suspected of 13 counts of war crimes and five counts of crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1 September 2002 and the end of September 2003. On 22 March 2013, Bosco Ntaganda surrendered himself voluntarily and is now in the ICC’s custody.
For a profile of Bosco Ntaganda see here. For posts on this blog about Bosco Ntaganda, see below:
Thomas Lubango Dyilo is sentenced to 14 years, as M23 advances on Goma
Well timed second arrest warrant for Bosco Ntaganda.
Where next for M23’s Bosco Ntaganda?
For Human Rights Watch’s Q&A on the hearing to confirm the charges against Bosco Ntaganda, see here.