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21.02.2010

Frans Van Anraat

Sentenced

Netherlands

Iraq

Van Anraat was arrested by Dutch officials at his Amsterdam home on December 7, 2004, just as he was apparently planning to flee the country. He was charged with complicity in war crimes and genocide. On 27 December 2004, a court ordered his release, a decision that was quashed in February 2005, following an appeal by the prosecutor. On 18 March 2005, during a pre-trial hearing in Rotterdam, Van Anraat requested to be released until th...

21.02.2010

Guus Van Kouwenhoven

Acquitted

Netherlands

Liberia

Guus Van Kouwenhoven is a Dutch businessman, born in 1943. Van Kouwenhoven was close to the former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor. Throughout the civil war which raged on for seven years in Liberia and caused the death of 250’000 people, the parties to the conflict financed their war activities through overly exploiting and exporting the natural resources of the country. In particular, Charles Taylor used the funds generated by the exces...

23.12.2009

Sebastien Nzapali

Sentenced

Netherlands

DRC

Sebastien Nzapali was born in 1952 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (previously Zaire). He was a member of Mr Mobutu's presidential guard and, in the period between 1990 and 1995, he led the death squads which spread fear and terror throughout the streets of the capital, Kinshasa. In 1996, he was Commander of the Garde Civile, stationed in Matadi. Following the overthrow of President Mobutu in 1997, he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment ...

08.12.2009

Habibullah Jalalzoy

Sentenced

Netherlands

Afghanistan

Habibullah Jalalzoy was born in 1946. From 1979 until 1992, under the regime of Soviet-backed president Najibullah, he was the head of a unit charged with interrogations within the military intelligence of the KhAD (Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati, the regime's secret police set up in 1980 to suppress its internal opponents). Human rights groups say Afghan intelligence workers tortured more than 200’000 people during that period and that around...

08.12.2009

Heshamuddin Hesam

Sentenced

Netherlands

Afghanistan

Heshamuddin Hesam was born in 1948.From 1983 until 1991, under the regime of Soviet-backed president Najibullah, Heshamuddin Hesam was the head of the Afghan military intelligence of the KhAD (Khedamat-e Etelea'at-e Dawlati, the regime's secret police set up in 1980 to suppress its internal opponents). He later became secretary of state attached to the security ministry before going to Moscow as a military attaché. Human rights groups say Afgh...

04.12.2009

Joseph Mpambara

Sentenced

Netherlands

Rwanda

Born in 1968, Joseph Mpambara is the brother of Obed Ruzindana (see “related cases”), an important businessman sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by the Appeal Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 2001 for genocide and crimes against humanity. Mpambara applied for asylum in the Netherlands in 1998 and was living in Hilversum at the time of his arrest in August 2006. The Dutch Immigration and Naturalization Servic...

26.09.2007

Abdoullah Faqirzada

Acquitted

Netherlands

Afghanistan

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