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ICC: The Appeals Chamber will deliver its Judgments in the Lubanga case on Friday, 8 October

01 Oct 2010

Dear all,

Please find below the latest press release issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) announcing that the ICC Appeals Chamber will render its decision on the suspension of the Lubanga trial on 8 October 2010.

This document has been produced by the ICC. The CICC Secretariat distributes it as part of its mandate to keep member organizations and individuals informed about developments related to the ICC. The document does not reflect the views of the CICC as a whole or its individual members.

Please also take note of the Coalition's policy on situations before the ICC (below), which explicitly states that the CICC will not take a position on potential and current situations before the Court or situations under analysis. The Coalition, however, will continue to provide the most up-to- date information about the ICC.

Best regards,

CICC Secretariat
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ICC PRESS RELEASE

i. "The Appeals Chamber will deliver its Judgments in the Lubanga case on Friday, 8 October," ICC Press release, ICC-CPI-20101001-MA73, 1st October 2010, http://www.icc-cpi.int/menus/icc/press and media/press releases/ma73?lan=en-GB


"On Friday, 8 October, 2010, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is scheduled to deliver its Judgments on the Prosecutor's appeals against Trial Chamber I's decisions to stay proceedings in the case The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, and to release the accused.

The Judgments will be delivered in open court, starting at 2:30 p.m. (The Hague local time). The session will be transmitted with no delay via web streaming on the ICC website:

Courtroom I (English): http://livestream.xs4all.nl/icc1.asx

Courtroom I (French): http://livestream.xs4all.nl/icc2.asx

On 8 July, 2010, Trial Chamber I of the ICC ordered to stay the proceedings in the case against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, considering that the fair trial of the accused is no longer possible due to non-implementation of the Chamber's orders by the Prosecution. The judges had ordered the Office of the Prosecutor to confidentially disclose to the Defence the names and other necessary identifying information, of intermediary 143. Following the decision to stay the proceedings, Trial Chamber I ordered, on 15 July, the release of the accused. According to the judges, an accused cannot be held in preventative custody on a speculative basis, namely that at some stage in the future, the proceedings may be resurrected. The ICC Prosecutor submitted two appeals against these decisions. On 23 July, the Appeals Chamber gave suspensive effect to the Prosecutor's appeal against the decision to release the accused."

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