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ICC Appeals Chamber: Lubanga won't be released (… yet)

Yesterday the Appeals Chamber of the ICC delivered two judgments with regard to appeals of the prosecutor against decisions of the Trial Chamber in the case of Mr Lubanga Dyilo (we reported on this case earlier here, and here). The first judgment concerned an appeal against the Trial Chamber’s decision on the release of Thomas Lubanga of 2 July 2008. The Appeals Chamber decided to reverse the Trial Chamber’s decision on the ground that it was “not persuaded by the arguments of the Prosecutor that the Trial Chamber made a procedural error by rendering the Impugned Decision before the Appeals…