Hearings are scheduled to begin on October 15 to organize an indictment procedure in the absence of Joseph Kony while he is still wanted by the International Criminal Court. But in a request filed on Thursday, August 29, 2024, his court-appointed lawyers are opposing this. The defense of the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) prosecuted for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed between 2002 and 2005 in northern Uganda accuses the judges of ignoring the central question: Is Joseph Kony still alive?
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Uganda: Towards the opening at the ICC of the in absentia trial of Joseph Kony, leader of the LRA movement?
