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13 Aug 2016, 7:36 am
Amnesty International said Thursday that a suspected chlorine gas attack in Aleppo could amount to a war crime [press release]. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 12:50 pm
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama issued a directive Thursday barring war criminals and human rights violators [press release] from entering the country. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 10:39 am
The case revolves around the war crimes conviction of former detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan [DOD materials; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 12:28 pm
Brammertz said failure to arrest Mladic would send war criminals the message [AP report] that if they avoid capture long enough, the world will cease to care about bringing them to justice. [read post]
31 May 2017, 1:26 pm
[JURIST] A new report [text, PDF] released Tuesday by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] claims that human rights violations within the Central African Republic (CAR)[BBC profile] may amount to war crimes. [read post]
9 Jan 2016, 9:14 am
[JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] on Friday warned [statement] that the use of cluster bombs by a Saudi-led coalition against neighborhoods in Yemen may amount to a war crime. [read post]
26 Mar 2006, 10:58 am
[JURIST] The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [official website] Sunday called on the Nigerian government to immediately detain former Liberian president and accused war criminal Charles Taylor [JURIST news archive] so that he does not disappear before being handed over to the Liberian government to be tried for crimes against humanity [indictment] by the Special Court. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 8:33 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Monday urged Rwanda [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to stop assisting an accused war criminal [press release] in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website]. [read post]
2 Jun 2015, 11:23 am
[JURIST] A Hungarian appeals court on Monday ordered the retrial of Bela Biszku [JURIST news archive], a high-ranking leader of the Hungarian Communist Party, who was convicted for war crimes following the 1956 uprising [BBC report]. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 10:24 am
[JURIST] A coalition of 146 Congolese and international human rights organizations released a joint declaration [text, PDF] Tuesday urging the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder] to create new mechanisms in its national justice system for prosecuting war crimes. [read post]
29 May 2009, 1:04 am
[JURIST] The US has failed to adequately prevent and prosecute war crimes and other abuses during its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions [official website] Philip Alston [oficial profile, DOC] said in a report [text, PDF] released Thursday. [read post]
3 Jul 2010, 7:40 am
[JURIST] Suspected Nazi collaborator Charles Zentai won an appeal on Friday in the Federal Court of Australia [official website] denying a request from the Hungarian government to extradite the now-Australian citizen in order to stand trial in Hungary for war crimes. [read post]
12 Feb 2016, 10:33 am
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Minnesota [official website] on Thursday ordered a Bosnian man to be deported after he pleaded guilty to lying on immigration forms about his criminal history during the Bosnian war. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 8:50 am
[JURIST] Ugandan Principal Judge James Ogoola said Monday that the newly established War Crimes Division (WCD) [official website, JURIST news archive] of the High Court will seek to recruit foreign judges. [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 9:04 am
[JURIST] The actions of the Islamic State (IS) [JURIST backgrounder] in Iraq may amount to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [official website] reported [press release] Thursday. [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 8:23 am
[JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) [official website] on Thursday urged Israel [report] to investigate alleged violations committed by its forces during the recent wars in Gaza to ensure justice. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 5:16 am
The court will be the first post-Cold War international tribunal to conclude its mandate and has prosecuted... [read post]
31 May 2010, 6:21 am
AP Story MEXICO CITY — After 40 years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? [read post]
10 Jul 2006, 3:02 am
[JURIST] The trial of six men accused of war crimes in Kosovo in 1999, including former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic [BBC profile], began at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Monday. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 5:42 am
[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Monday called on the government of East Timor [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to close legal loopholes [press release] in that allow for national amnesties and pardons for war crimes. [read post]
