{"id":22773,"date":"2021-03-30T10:52:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T07:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22773"},"modified":"2021-03-30T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T07:52:56","slug":"terminator-icc-to-rule-on-dr-congos-bosco-ntaganda-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/30\/terminator-icc-to-rule-on-dr-congos-bosco-ntaganda-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"TERMINATOR: ICC To Rule On DR Congo\u2019s Bosco Ntaganda Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The International Criminal Court will rule on Tuesday on an appeal by the Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s rebel leader, Bosco Ntaganda, against his conviction for war crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former commander, nicknamed &#8220;The Terminator&#8221;, was given a 30-year jail sentence in 2019 after being found guilty on 18 counts including murder, rape and using child soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was the first person to be convicted by the court of sexual slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The charges related to crimes carried out in the mineral-rich Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002 and 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors are asking the judges to consider a tougher sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Criminal Court will rule on Tuesday on an appeal by the Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s rebel leader, Bosco Ntaganda, against his conviction for war crimes. The former commander, nicknamed &#8220;The Terminator&#8221;, was given a 30-year jail sentence in 2019 after being found guilty on 18 counts including murder, rape and using child soldiers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":22774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[6239,818,31,3323],"class_list":["post-22773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-bosco-ntaganda","tag-dr-congo","tag-featured","tag-icc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22775,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22773\/revisions\/22775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}