International Criminal Defence Attorney
Beth S. Lyons is an international criminal defence attorney who has represented clients at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Since 2017, she has been one of the counsels for Mr. Dominic Ongwen at the ICC. Ongwen is a child soldier abducted into the Lords Resistance Army at the age of 8 or 9. She was also a counsel for Mr. Narcisse Arido in a witness tampering case ("Article 70") at the ICC. At the ICTR, she was one of the counsels for three clients (Aloys Simba, Major Francois-Xavier Nzuwonemeye and Gregoire Ndahimana). In February 2014, she and Lead Counsel Chief Charles A. Taku (with their defence team) won an acquittal on appeal for their client, Major F.X. Nzuwonemeye, in the Prosecutor v. Ndindiliyimana (“Military II”) case. Since 1997, she has served as an Alternate Representative to the U.N. in New York for the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL).
In 2003, Beth was an Invited Expert to the first ICC Seminar on Defence Issues. She has made presentations and published on international courts/tribunals and international justice, fair trial, defence issues, truth and reconciliation commissions (South Africa and East Timor), business accountability for human rights violations, and joint criminal enterprise. Her review of Professor Nancy Combs’ excellent book, Fact-Finding Without Facts: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions, appeared in the Journal of Genocide Research in September 2011.
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About Beth S. Lyons
Beth S. Lyons is an international criminal defence attorney who has represented clients at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Since 2017, she has been one of the counsels for Mr. Dominic Ongwen at the ICC. Ongwen is a child soldier abducted into the Lords Resistance Army at the age of 8 or 9. She was also a counsel for Mr. Narcisse Arido in a witness tampering case ("Article 70") at the ICC. At the ICTR, she was one of the counsels for three clients (Aloys Simba, Major Francois-Xavier Nzuwonemeye and Gregoire Ndahimana). In February 2014, she and Lead Counsel Chief Charles A. Taku (with their defence team) won an acquittal on appeal for their client, Major F.X. Nzuwonemeye, in the Prosecutor v. Ndindiliyimana (“Military II”) case. Since 1997, she has served as an Alternate Representative to the U.N. in New York for the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL).
In 2003, Beth was an Invited Expert to the first ICC Seminar on Defence Issues. She has made presentations and published on international courts/tribunals and international justice, fair trial, defence issues, truth and reconciliation commissions (South Africa and East Timor), business accountability for human rights violations, and joint criminal enterprise. Her review of Professor Nancy Combs’ excellent book, Fact-Finding Without Facts: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions, appeared in the Journal of Genocide Research in September 2011.