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3 Dec 2004, 1:37 am
[JURIST] A former Serb military officer indicted for his role in the shelling of civilians in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war has surrendered and is being transported Friday to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said. [read post]
22 Feb 2006, 8:39 am
[JURIST] Carla del Ponte [official profile], chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website], said Wednesday that Serbian government officials had told her that war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic [ICTY case backgrounder; BBC profile] has not been arrested. [read post]
13 Oct 2005, 2:51 am
These charges stem from the 1980-1988 war fought between Iraq and Iran, during which Iraq attempted to grab land in Iran's oil-rich southwest [read post]
6 Jul 2004, 4:43 am
An International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia panel has ordered that Slobodan Milosevic undergo a new medical examination to determine whether he is fit to defend himself against charges of war crimes and genocide. [read post]
26 Mar 2003, 9:38 am
[JURIST] According to a Russian Interfax wire story Wednesday, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev [official website] has severely criticized the US-led war in Iraq. [read post]
29 Sep 2005, 9:42 am
[JURIST] A Tokyo court dismissed a lawsuit against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi [official website, English version] Thursday that claimed his visits to a Shinto war shrine violated Japan's constitutional separation of religion and state. [read post]
30 Jan 2007, 1:22 pm
[JURIST] The Tokyo District Court denied financial compensation on Tuesday to 40 displaced Japanese nationals in China who were left there as children after the Japanese defeat in World War II. [read post]
23 Oct 2008, 10:11 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense [official website] announced Wednesday that it has filed new war crimes charges against two Kuwaiti men held at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
27 May 2004, 12:10 pm
Former Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milosevic's defense in his war crimes trial before the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague has been delayed due to the poor health of the former leader. [read post]
23 Jan 2009, 4:02 am
[JURIST] Both Russia and Georgia must investigate possible violations of the laws of war [HRW press release] during and after the week-long South Ossetia conflict [BBC backgrounder] in August 2008, according to a report [text, PDF] released Friday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website]. [read post]
27 Apr 2007, 4:08 pm
[JURIST] The office of the German Federal Prosecutor [official website, in German] Friday declined to investigate a war crimes claim [ASIL backgrounder; PDF introduction, in English] against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] and other high-ranking US officials filed by human rights groups [JURIST report] seeking accountability for acts of torture allegedly [read post]
3 Apr 2007, 9:08 am
[JURIST] US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [official website] Tuesday announced the arrests of three former South American military officials suspected of war atrocities in their home countries. [read post]
24 Nov 2007, 9:44 am
[JURIST] French prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin has dismissed a war crimes claim against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] alleging that Rumsfeld authorized US personnel to torture prisoners in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, according to a lawyer for the Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH) [advocacy website] on Friday. [read post]
12 Mar 2006, 1:47 am
[JURIST] Hague war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte [BBC profile] Sunday defended the over four year long trial of Slobodan Milosevic [JURIST news archive] before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [official website], saying that although his sudden death in jail [JURIST report] Saturday "deprives the victims of the justice they need and deserve" and it was "a great [read post]
30 May 2007, 12:15 pm
[JURIST] Serbia's Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor [official website] Tuesday confirmed an ongoing investigation conducted in cooperation with Croatian authorities against 12 former Serb paramilitary members for their alleged role in the "torture, inhuman treatment, and killing of 70 civilians" in the Croatian town of Lovas. [read post]
11 Mar 2006, 8:10 am
[JURIST] ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte marked the sudden death of Slobodan Milosevic [JURIST report] Saturday by reiterating her call [JURIST report] for the remaining fugitives from the Hague war crimes tribunal to be brought to justice and tried. [read post]
11 Mar 2007, 7:32 am
[JURIST] A revised version of a controversial bill granting amnesty to groups that allegedly committed war crimes [JURIST news archive] was signed into law Saturday by Afghan President Hamid Karzai [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] after being approved [JURIST report] earlier in the day by the Afghan parliament, which includes many former militia leaders. [read post]
23 Aug 2018, 10:29 pm
., may have brought to an end a long-running dispute over the impact on World War II government procurement contracts on the liability of major oil companies for the remediation costs at a major Southern California Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) site — the “McColl site. [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 10:35 am
[JURIST] Former Cambodian Foreign Minister Ieng Sary [JURIST news archive], accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the Khmer Rouge [JURIST news archive] communist regime of the 1970s, was hospitalized Monday for a urinary tract problem. [read post]
6 Feb 2005, 1:34 am
[JURIST] Sudan's state-run news agency Saturday quoted the country's vice-president as saying that Sudan [official government website; English version] would not extradite any Sudanese suspected of war crimes for trial in foreign courts. [read post]
