Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo, has requested to be transferred from Luzira Maximum Prison to Gulu prison. His lawyer Evans Ochieng, told the court on Monday that the suspect wants to serve his remand near home to enable his family members to …
Read More »Kwoyelo accuses state of adding fabricated evidence for trial
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA rebel Commander Thomas Kwoyelo has protested the move by the state prosecution to present new documents in court as evidence without prior disclosure to his defense team. Speaking through his defense lawyers on Monday, Kwoyelo alleged that some of the correspondents …
Read More »Lack of funds delay speedy trial of Thomas Kwoyelo: Registrar
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Crimes Division (ICD) Deputy Registrar, Stella Beatrice Atingu has admitted the trial of former Lord’s Resistance Army rebel commander, Thomas Kwoyelo, is slow due to lack of funding. The former LRA warlord is facing 93 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity at …
Read More »Court adjourns Kwoyelo’s war crimes trial to May
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The case in which one of the commanders of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Thomas Kwoyelo is facing 93 charges related to atrocities committed during the Northern Uganda political insurgency has been adjourned to May 23rd 2022, to enable the prosecutors prepare more witnesses. The case was …
Read More »LRA massacre videos in Barlonyo camp overshadow Kwoyelo’s trial
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Shock and emotions enveloped the International Crimes Division of the High Court as the prosecutors screened a video showing the aftermath of the Barlonyo camp attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels who left hundreds of people dead 18 years ago. This was during the ongoing …
Read More »LRA’s Thomas Kwoyelo asks high court to transfer case to ICC for speedy trial
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thomas Kwoyelo, 52, a former colonel in the Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA has asked High Court in Kampala to forward his case to the International Crimes Division in the Hague if the Ugandan court cannot expedite his trial. Ugandan authorities took Kwoyelo in custody in 2009 …
Read More »Kwoyelo trial resumes amidst protests from lawyers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Crimes Division of the High Court sitting in Gulu resumed the trial of former rebel Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA commander, Thomas Kwoyelo on Monday afternoon amidst protests from his lawyers. The lawyers protested a report in the alleged assault on their client by unidentified …
Read More »Court delays ruling on Kwoyelo’s bail application
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Crimes Division of the High Court has deferred its ruling on the bail application lodged by Thomas Kwoyelo to March 26th. The decision was communicated on Wednesday by Justice Jane Persis Kiggundu, the chairperson of the four panel of judges presiding over …
Read More »DPP asks ICD to convict Kwoyelo of war crimes
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Directorate of Public Prosecutions has asked the International Crimes Division of the High Court to convict the former Commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army Thomas Kwoyelo of war crimes and crimes against humanity, alongside sexual and gender-based crimes. The plea was made as …
Read More »Court sets March 20, to rule on Kwoyelo’s bail application
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Crimes Division of the High court will on March 20, deliver its ruling on a bail application by Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army-LRA. The Court is trying Kwoyelo for 93 Counts of war crimes and crimes against …
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