ICC Throws Out Dominic Ongwen's Appeal - Upholds 25 Year Sentence nilepostnews: Uganda LRA ICC DominicOngwen conflict
The Hague based court last year convicted Ongwen and consequently sentenced him to 25 years imprisonment for crimes against humanity committed during the insurgency in Northern Uganda.
The appeals chamber rejected the 90 grounds of appeal raised by Ongwen of violations to his right to a fair trial and other human rights, as well as his challenge to the trial chamber's findings on his individual criminal responsibility as an indirect perpetrator and as an indirect co-perpetrator, setting out in this regard the parameters of these modes of liability.
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