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28 Dec 2011, 8:39 am
[JURIST] The US has extradited Rasema Handanovic, a woman accused of killing Bosnian Croat civilians during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Civil War [JURIST news archive], according to US officials Tuesday. [read post]
16 May 2008, 3:20 am
[JURIST] Convicted Kosovo Albanian war criminal Haradin Bala has been transferred [ICTY press release] to a prison in France to serve out the rest of his 13-year sentence [JURIST news report], the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] announced Thursday. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 12:57 pm
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) [official website] on Wednesday sentenced [judgment, PDF] Mohibur Rahman to death for his part in the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 9:35 am
[JURIST] The newly elected government in Sri Lanka announced Wednesday that it is planning to investigate accusations of human rights abuses during the closing stages of the 26-year civil war, after former president Mahinda Rajapaksa [BBC profile] refused to cooperate with UN investigators about claims of atrocities committed by the army in 2009. [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 11:42 am
[JURIST] The appeals chamber for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Thursday upheld [press release] the criminal convictions of four Serbian senior officials stemming from the Bosnian Civil War [JURIST news archive], while reducing the sentences for three of them. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 9:44 am
[JURIST] Serbian war crimes prosecutors said Tuesday that five people have been charged [press release, PDF] with committing a wartime massacre during the Balkan conflict of the 1990s, with 10 more still under investigation in Bosnia. [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 5:06 am
[JURIST] The registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has expressed concern [press release] over the refusal of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Zdravko Tolimir [ICTY case backgrounder, PDF] to accept medical treatment in prison while awaiting trial. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 7:46 am
[JURIST] The Sri Lankan government on Thursday continued to defend the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), a government mandated probe into alleged rights violations committed during the end of the nation's civil war [JURIST new archive], against widespread criticism. [read post]
5 Jul 2017, 12:42 pm
Armed groups have been committing war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR) [UN materials], according to a report [summary] released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] detailing violence in three central provinces between November 2014 and April 2017. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 1:44 pm
[JURIST] A Japanese court threw out a lawsuit by a group of Japanese abandoned in China as children [Kyoto Journal backgrounder] after Japan's defeat in World War II, officials said Thursday. [read post]
19 Jul 2014, 9:23 am
[JURIST] There is evidence of serious human rights violations committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) [BBC profile], associated armed groups, Iraqi security forces (ISF) and associated forces in the last month, including some that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [official websites] reported [press release] Friday. [read post]
9 Sep 2004, 2:47 am
The Nazi war crimes trial of 86-year-old Ladislav Niznansky opened Thursday in Munich. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 9:54 am
[JURIST] The UN Organization Stabilization Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) released a report [text, PDF] confirming the use of rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder] last summer, but continued investigations were suspended on Wednesday due to reprisal attacks on rape victims [AP report]. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 9:03 am
[JURIST] Antonio Cassese [JURIST news archive], a renowned Italian international war crimes expert and key figure in the establishment of two international criminal tribunals, died Saturday in Florence, Italy, at the age of 74. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 9:28 am
[JURIST] The Canadian government on Monday deported Rwandan war crimes suspect Leon Mugesera, after a Quebec Superior Court [official website] judge ruled that the court did not have jurisdiction to rule on immigration cases. [read post]
13 May 2016, 9:19 am
Armed opposition groups in Syria are committing war crimes around the Sheikh Maqsoud district of Aleppo city, Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] said [press release] Friday. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 10:18 am
[JURIST] The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) [official website] on Tuesday sentenced [judgment, PDF] two men to death for crimes against humanity committed during Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 2:14 pm
[JURIST] The top prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC)[official website] released a statement [text] Friday alleging that recent acts of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could amount to war crimes. [read post]
14 Mar 2006, 8:38 am
[JURIST] The US Marine Corps [official website] said Tuesday that Allen Abney, a Vietnam War deserter who is now a Canadian citizen, will probably be released within a week from Camp Pendleton [official website], California. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 6:53 am
The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official websites] issued a warrant for al-Bashir's arrest in 2009 for war crimes, and later charged... [read post]
