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29 Sep 2022, 5:55 am
Critical geographic areas with war-related destruction are difficult to access. [read post]
17 Apr 2010, 12:22 pm
[JURIST] Former commander of the Bosnian army during the 1992-1994 Bosnian civil war [JURIST news archive] Rasim Delic [ICTY backgrounder, PDF; Trial Watch profile] died Friday of cancer in his home. [read post]
9 Feb 2006, 7:43 am
[JURIST] Former Argentine police and army officer Ricardo Taddei, wanted by Argentina [JURIST news archive] for allegedly kidnapping and torturing 166 detainees during Argentina's 1976-1983 "dirty war" [GlobalSecurity.org backgrounder; JURIST news archive], was arrested in Spain Thursday. [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]
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]
6 Apr 2011, 6:00 am
Counterfactual Constitutionalism: The American Civil War and the Framing of Australia’s Constitution has just been posted by Helen Irving, University of Sydney - Faculty of Law. [read post]
3 Jun 2004, 6:37 am
The first trials for war crimes in the Special Court for Sierra Leone began today, but were later adjourned until next Tuesday after one of the defendants fired his defense counsel. [read post]
29 Sep 2005, 12:53 pm
[JURIST] In the first case of a transfer from a UN tribunal [ICTY press release] to a Balkan country, Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Stankovic [UN indictment, PDF] has been moved from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website] in The Hague to be tried in a Bosnian state court. [read post]
22 Feb 2004, 1:55 pm
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia announced Sunday that UK jurist Richard May, the presiding judge at the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic, is stepping down for health reasons effective May 31. [read post]
27 Dec 2005, 1:05 pm
[JURIST] A Serbian security official said Tuesday that Serb police had intercepted a cell phone conversation involving Bosnian Serb general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic [ICTY case backgrounder; JURIST news archive], the strongest lead police have thusfar developed in the search for the fugitive. [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]
17 Jan 2005, 2:31 am
[JURIST] Speaking to congregants at a church near civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior's hometown of Atlanta on the eve of the national holiday celebrating his birth, the Reverend Jesse Jackson [Rainbow/PUSH Coalition official website] said Sunday that war, poverty, violence and social injustice are diminishing King's legacy. [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]
13 Sep 2007, 3:17 am
[JURIST] Serbia will increase efforts to locate and arrest several war criminals to curry a favorable report from Carla Del Ponte, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] when she advises EU officials on pending pre-membership deal with the country, a Serb liaison official said Wednesday. [read post]
22 Apr 2009, 5:13 am
[JURIST] A top Norwegian prosecutor said Wednesday that she will look into a compliant filed by Norwegian lawyers accusing Israeli government figures of war crimes during the recent offensive in the Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder]. [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]
23 Mar 2021, 6:31 am
, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on reclaiming congressional war powers. [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]
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]
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]
