Geneva, October 30, 2026 – Alieu Kosiah’s war crimes conviction is final as Swiss Federal Supreme Court upholds 20 year sentence
Geneva/Monrovia/Nottingham, July 21, 2026 – Civitas Maxima, University of Nottingham and GJRP submit comments on Liberia's draft War and Economic Crimes Court legislation
On May 2, 2024, Joseph Nyuma Boakai signed Executive Order No. 131 establishing the Office of the War and Economic Crimes Court (OWECC).
In spring 2025, Civitas Maxima was alerted to the fact that Mohamed Jabateh had lodged another appeal in his case. This was surprising because we had been under the impression that his case was final.
Until early September 2014, the very existence of Civitas Maxima, founded in 2012, was known to almost no one. None of our cases were public, we had only a tiny team, and no one was responsible for communications.
The judges of the chambre des mises en accusation of the Ghent court of appeal issued a decision officially closing the investigation phase of the case against Martina Johnson and sending her case to trial before the cour d’assises.
(Monrovia, March 4, 2026) – Armed men at 3 a.m. on February 20, 2026, raided the office of the GJRP in Liberia, the Center for Justice and Accountability, Civitas Maxima, Global Justice Center, Global Justice and and Research Project and HRW.
Today, following a closed hearing held on 30th September 2025, the judge of the “Chambre du conseil” in the Ghent Court of First Instance issued a decision formally closing the investigation into Martina Johnson.
Laye Sekou Camara, high-ranking member of the LURD has been sentenced to 57 months in prison, 3 years of supervised release and assessed a $400 special fee by the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in the United States.
In 2009, the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its final report where it made several recommendations designed to promote justice and reconciliation in post-war Liberia.
Liberian President Joseph Boakai should follow through on his commitment to justice and human rights by renewing an executive order key to establishing a war crimes court to address accountability for civil war-era crimes in the country.
This year Liberia will undergo the fourth review of its human rights records, as part of the UPR, a mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council to periodically examine the human rights situation of all UN Member States.
