 14.05.2008 (Hirondelle News Agency)
ICTR - First Rwanda genocide convict defends ex-top MRND party leadersJean-Paul Akayesu, first person convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for genocide and crimes against humanity, testified Wednesday for the defence in the so called "Karemera Trial",... |
14.05.2008 (AFP)USA: Marine to stand trial over detainee killing in IraqA US Marine is to face court martial for murder over allegations that an unarmed Iraqi prisoner was shot dead during fighting in Fallujah in 2004, the military said Wednesday... |
14.05.2008 (Reuters)Charles Taylor's former deputy testifies in trialCharles Taylor's deputy testified in the war crimes trial of the former Liberian president on Wednesday, describing how a Sierra Leonean rebel leader answered to his boss.... |
13.05.2008 (The New York Times)South Africa: Justices’ Conflicts Halt Apartheid AppealFinancial and personal conflicts of interest affecting four Supreme Court justices left the court without a quorum last week and unable to decide whether to hear an appeal brought by... |
13.05.2008 (AFP)US renews big rewards for tips on Rwanda war crimesThe United States announced Monday the renewal of rewards of up to five million dollars for tips leading to the arrest of any of 13 men suspected of war crimes during the Rwandan genocide... |
13.05.2008 (Jurist)ICTY transfers Bosnian Croat war criminal to Italy prisonThe International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] said Tuesday that it has transferred [press release] a former Bosnian Croat military commander... |
13.05.2008 (Jurist)Northern Kosovo courts in legal limbo after independence: judges groupCourts in Kosovo's northern districts have been left in legal limbo since the Assembly of Kosovo's February unilateral declaration of Kosovo's independence [text; JURIST report] from Serbia,... |
13.05.2008 (Hirondelle News Agency)RWANDA/BELGIUM - Belgium cancels Rwanda Foreign Minister's tripThe official visit of new Rwandan Foreign Minister, Rosemary Museminali, last week to Belgium was cancelled because of the presence in her delegation of Joseph Nzabamwita... |
13.05.2008 (Southeast European Times)ICTY: Ljuboten trial ends at The HagueThe trial of former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski and former security official Johan Tarculovski ended last week at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague... |
12.05.2008 (Jurist)Supreme Court affirms ruling allowing anti-apartheid claims to proceed after recusalsThe US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] Monday affirmed [PDF text] a judgment by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on an anti-apartheid claims lawsuit... |
12.05.2008 (International Herald Tribune)International Justice: Fifteen years of progressFifteen years ago, on May 25, 1993, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a plan to establish an International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to try those accused... |
12.05.2008 (IWPR)ICC: Call for Lubanga Charges to Cover RapeUN representative says child soldier charges against Congolese rebel commander should be interpreted as covering crimes of sexual violence... |
12.05.2008 (Hirondelle News Agency)ICTR - Chamber orders ICTR Registry to appoint lawyer for genocide fugitiveThe International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has ordered the Registry to appoint a lawyer for an accused who is still at large, Fulgence Kayishema... |
12.05.2008 (The Walrus)Extraordinary Chambers of the Cambodian Courts: Who will be convicted of the Khmer Rouge’s war crimes?On a steamy Cambodian morning last spring, I wandered through Pailin’s central market. In a few hours, I would meet Nuon Chea, the most senior surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge... |
10.05.2008 (Mail&Guardian)ICC: Nkunda’s dilemmaCongolese militia leader Laurent Nkunda may face a crisis in the ranks of his rebel force, following an announcement last week from the International Criminal Court (ICC)... |
09.05.2008 (FoNet, Beta)NGO brings charges against General DelićThe Humanitarian Law Center has filed charges against retired Gen. Božidar Delić and 10 soldiers and militia for the murder of several dozen Kosovo Albanians. |
09.05.2008 (Beta)Ex-state security chief’s trial adjourned againThe Hague Tribunal trial of former state security chief Jovica Stanišić has once again been adjourned owing to his poor health. |
09.05.2008 (Reuters)UK won't charge ex-Sri Lanka Tiger with war crimesBritain has released former Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebel Karuna Amman from prison where he was detained on immigration charges, it said on Friday, believing he could not be convicted of war crimes. |
09.05.2008 (AP)Election in Serbia may cripple hunt for Gen. Ratko MladicFor 13 years, he has eluded capture for atrocities a U.N. judge described as "scenes from hell ... written on the darkest pages of human history."
Gen. Ratko Mladic — indicted for genocide in the 1995 slaughter of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Bos |
09.05.2008 (JURIST)Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal seeks new trial claiming right to defense violatedThe International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] announced Thursday that Vidoje Blagojevic [ICTY case backgrounder, PDF] has requested a new trial. Blagojevic, former commander of the Bratunac Brigade of the Bosnian |
09.05.2008 (IWPR)Witness Backs Seselj’s Conspiracy TheoryA former soldier said this week that although the Yugoslav People’s Army, JNA, could have seized Vukovar in a day, it kept shelling the city in an apparent ruse to support Croatia.
“The First Guards Brigade of the JNA was more powerful then the entire |
09.05.2008 (Jurist)US military judge refuses to set Khadr trial date pending Guantanamo records releaseUS military judge Col. Peter Brownback again refused to set a trial date for Canadian-born Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] at a pre-trial hearing Thursday, threatening to suspend military commission proceedings... |
09.05.2008 (BIRN)BIH/Week Ahead: Begining of Samardzija's retrialNext week the retrial for war crimes in Kljuc municipality as well as trials against 43 persons indicted for war crimes continue... |
08.05.2008 (AP)Police in Bosnia raid homes of war crimes suspect's former bodyguardsPolice searching for Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic say they have raided the homes of two of his former bodyguards in Bosnia. |
08.05.2008 (AFP)Ex-vice president to testify at Liberia war crimes trialEx-Liberian vice-president Moses Blah is to testify May 13 at the trial against his former boss and war crimes suspect Charles Taylor, the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) said Thursday |
08.05.2008 (Voice of America)IBA: Zimbabwe's Mugabe Should be Investigated for Human Rights CrimesThe International Bar Association says that the U.N. Security Council should ask the International Criminal Court to investigate Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe for crimes against humanity. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our bureau in Johannesburg. |
08.05.2008 (Reuters)Egypt refers officer to court on torture chargesThe Egyptian public prosecutor referred to court on Thursday a police captain accused of torturing a civilian to death, a prosecution source said. |
08.05.2008 (ba/fd)Trial of Boskovski and Tarculovski endsBy reviewing the arguments stemming from the closing remarks delivered by the defense and prosecution, the trial against Ljube Boskoski and Johan Tarculovski came to an end Thursday in the Hague Tribunal. |
08.05.2008 (AFP)Tanzania in manhunt for first-ever Rwanda tribunal fugitiveTanzania has launched a manhunt to find the first-ever witness to escape from the United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda, a police chief said on Thursday.
The Rwandan national was due to appear before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwan |
07.05.2008 (AKI)UN: War crimes tribunal releases former army chiefA former army chief of staff charged with war crimes has been released from prison by the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
The tribunal, based in The Hague, was set up to deal with the worst war crimes committe |
07.05.2008 (The Independant)Canadian becomes first child soldier since Nuremberg to stand trial for war crimesAn inmate at the US-run Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba is set to be the first child soldier to go on trial for war crimes since Nuremberg, after a military judge ruled that there were no legal obstacles preventing the camp's special military commissio |
07.05.2008 (maxfax)Defense seeks acquittal verdict for BoskoskiIn today's final statement before the Hague Tribunal, attorney Edina Rasidovic urged the court to pronounce acquittal verdict to Ljube Boskoski.
Rasidovic backed her request by claiming that the prosecutors failed to prove commanding respons |
07.05.2008 (Beta/Tanjug)Serbia: SRS official helped Haradinaj acquittalThe Democratic Party (DS) has accused a leading Serb Radical Party (SRS) official of refusing to testify in the Ramush Haradinaj war crimes trial. |
07.05.2008 (Hirondelle News Agency)ICTR - French court nods transfer of genocide accused to UN court in ArushaThe Final Court of Appeal, highest court in France, rejected Wednesday an appeal of a Rwandan accused of 1994 genocide, Dominique Ntawukuriryayo, and upheld the ruling by the Court of Appeal of Paris... |
07.05.2008 (Hirondelle News Agency)ICTR - Witness mysteriously disappears from ICTR's safe houseA protected witness who was to re-testify before the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to confess to false testimony, suddenly disappeared on Tuesday just some few hours... |
07.05.2008 (allafrica.com)Liberia: Witness Tells of Rapes, Killings, Amputations and Looting in Life As Rebel CaptiveProsecution witness TF1-028, testifying behind a screen and with voice distortion, today told the court a horrific tale of abduction and captivity at the hands of rebels. |
07.05.2008 (The New Times)Rwanda: Kenya Freezes Kabuga's AssetsIt is now official: the most wanted Rwandan Genocide Fugitive, Félicien Kabuga owns some assets in Kenya and, the Kenyan government has at last decided to freeze them. |
06.05.2008 (Los Angeles Times)Investigation sought of alleged Kosovo war crimesA leading human rights group on Monday urged the governments of Albania and the self-declared state of Kosovo to investigate horrific allegations about the kidnapping and abuse of Serb civilians after the NATO-led war that drove Serbian forces from Kosovo |
06.05.2008 (AFP)US contractors accused in Abu Ghraib torture suitEmployees from US military contractors helped torture Iraqi civilians detained at Abu Ghraib prison five years ago, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Monday. |
06.05.2008 (AP)Former Bosnian Serb premier boycotts his war crimes trialA former Bosnian Serb prime minister boycotted his trial Tuesday on charges of crimes against humanity, the court said.
Gojko Klickovic, who is charged with war crimes against Croat and Muslim civilians and prisoners of war during the 1992-1995 Bosnian w |
06.05.2008 (guardian.co.uk)Guantánamo Briton sues UK over 'torture evidence'The last British resident left in Guantánamo Bay is suing the UK government for refusing to produce evidence that he was a victim of extraordinary rendition and torture. |
06.05.2008 (Reuters)Kenya freezes assets of top Rwanda genocide suspectKenya froze the assets of the most wanted suspect in Rwanda's genocide on Tuesday, saying it would stop him avoiding capture or helping other fugitives. |
06.05.2008 (Hirondelle News Agency)ICTR - Kenya wants to seize property belonging to genocide accused KabugaThe Kenyan government has applied for a court order to seize property belonging to Felicien Kabuga, alleged financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and has been wanted for several years by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)... |
06.05.2008 (SW Radio Africa)Zimbabwe: SA Litigation Centre Calls for Prosecution Chefs Over ViolenceThe Johannesburg based Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) has confirmed that 2 weeks before the March 29 elections, they urged South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to investigate and prosecute 18 top Zimbabwe security officials for c |
05.05.2008 (Legalbrief Africa)ICC builds pressure for arrest of KonyThe chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) has renewed his call for the arrest of fugitives from Uganda and Sudan wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
05.05.2008 (AP)Experts seek new ways for Bosnia to overcome violent pastWar crimes trials have given justice to some victims of Bosnia's civil war but have not done enough to reconcile former enemies, a panel of justice and human rights experts said Monday. |
05.05.2008 (BalkanInsight.com)Serbia 'Ready to Find' War Crimes FugitivesSerbia’s War Crimes Prosecutor said there is political readiness to track down the four remaining top war crimes suspects.
“Without fulfilling this goal we simply cannot move forward,” Vladimir Vukcevic said in an interview in Monday’s edition of Saraj |
05.05.2008 (BBC News)Rwanda official in genocide trialA former Rwandan cabinet minister has gone on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, charged with taking part in the 1994 genocide. |
05.05.2008 (The Hague Justice Portal)ICTY: Prosecution calls for Haradinaj re-trialCiting the exclusion of possible crucial evidence in the Haradinaj case due to witness intimidation, the Prosecution has called for a re-trial of the three recently acquitted KLA commanders... |
04.05.2008 (B92)Mladic likely in Serbia, Brammertz saysChief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz says "there is no reason not to believe" that Ratko Mladić is in Serbia.... |
02.05.2008 (VOA)Rights Group says Major Rwandan Genocide Suspect Living in USA new report says a man responsible for helping turn the Gisozi area of Rwanda into a mass grave during the 1994 genocide has been tracked to the US Midwestern state of Ohio.... |
02.05.2008 (Sense)ICTY - Gotovina trial: 13,000 Serb houses burnedThe Hague trial of three former Croatian generals continued yesterday with testimony from a prosecution witness.... |
02.05.2008 (Jurist)Ex-Marine to stand trial in federal court for Fallujah deathsA former US Marine sergeant, charged with two counts of voluntary manslaughter for allegedly killing two Iraqi insurgents during the Multinational National Force-Iraq's November 2004 offensive in Fallujah, can stand trial in federal court, according to a |
02.05.2008 (Hirondelle News Agency)ICTR could face many requests for reviewEight months before the end of its mandate, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) could be confronted with an abrupt increase in the requests for review following the many revelations of false testimony that have occurred in several trials |
01.05.2008 (Balkan Insight.com)ICTY: UN Prosecutors to Appeal Haradinaj’s AcquittalUN Prosecutors plan to appeal the acquittal of Kosovo’s former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, a UN spokeswoman says. ... |
01.05.2008 (Hirondelle News Agency)Rwanda: Trial of Former High Ranking Civil Servant Deferred to MayThe trial of Callixte Kalimanzira, a former high ranking Rwandan civil servant accused of 1994 genocide, will begin on 5 May, reports Hirondelle Agency.... |
01.05.2008 (Balkan Insight.com)Croatia 'Failing' to Arrest NazisCroatia has been criticised for a lack of political will in arresting Nazis for the second year in a row. ... |
01.05.2008 (ICTY)ICTY: Bruno Stojic granted provisional releaseBruno Stojić was granted temporary provisional release on Tuesday 29 April 2008 by Trial Chamber III on humanitarian grounds. ... |
01.05.2008 (IWPR)DRC: Nkunda Faces ICC DilemmaRebel leader might want to hand over indicted commander to the court, but could meet resistance from some troops.... |
