Former DR Congo vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba poses a flight risk and a threat to witnesses and must remain in custody until his war crimes trial in The Hague next year, a judge said on Wednesday. The International Criminal Court's appeals chamber upheld an appeal brought by the prosecution against the ICC's decision in August to grant Bemba ...

The trial of two Congolese warlords at the International Criminal Court in The Hague was adjourned for nearly eight weeks on Wednesday after one of the three judges was in a road accident. "We will adjourn until January 26," said Bruno Cotte, presiding at the trial of Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui which had been due to run until ...

The Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal said Wednesday that it has appointed a new international prosecutor whose most recent job was defending former Liberian President Charles Taylor at his war crimes trial. Andrew T. Cayley of Britain, who has also served as a prosecutor at international war crimes courts, was named ...