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4 Feb 2009, 1:26 am
“The long-term unmarried partner of a retired Royal Navy officer who died five years ago from a job-related illness has failed in her legal battle for the right to receive a widow’s war pension. [read post]
22 Mar 2008, 11:01 am
[JURIST] The Office of Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutor [official website] said Friday that it is investigating "informal statements" it has received from investigators at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] that dozens of imprisoned Serbs were killed by Albanian rebels in 1999 so that their organs could be used in an international trafficking [read post]
29 Oct 2010, 7:05 am
[JURIST] President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website], Judge Sang-Hyun Song [official profile], called Thursday on the international community to redouble its efforts to arrest [press release] eight suspects sought for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide. [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 11:56 am by Addison Morris
[JURIST] Extremists and security forces are committing war crimes in northeastern Nigeria's Islamic uprising, resulting in at least 1,500 deaths this year alone, according to a report [text, PDF] published Friday by Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website]. [read post]
31 Mar 2006, 3:07 pm
[JURIST] Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) [official website] Chief Prosecutor Desmond de Silva told the Associated Press in an interview Friday that Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] is being closely guarded by UN peacekeepers from Mongolia and Ireland as he awaits a war crimes trial. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 10:15 am by Sung Un Kim
[JURIST] Bangladesh police on Sunday arrested Mir Kashem Ali for his alleged crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War [GlobalSecurity backgrounder]. [read post]
13 Oct 2006, 4:09 am
[JURIST] US Army Sergeant Ricky Clousing [advocacy website; JURIST news archive], a paratrooper and interpreter who disputed the legality of the war in Iraq [JURIST news archive], has pleaded guilty to going absent without leave for 14 months. [read post]
27 Jan 2017, 7:41 am by Ram Eachambadi
The UN announced [UN News Centre report] on Thursday that the independent panel charged with assisting in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes or crimes against humanity in Syria will be headed by a senior judge or prosecutor with extensive experience in criminal investigation and prosecution. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 10:10 am by Rebecca DiLeonardo
[JURIST] Rwandan leaders who aided armed forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] and supplied them with weapons, armor and recruits, including children may have committed war crimes, the leader of the US Office of Global Criminal Justice (GCJ) [official website] told reporters on Wednesday. [read post]
9 Oct 2015, 7:47 am by Alexandra Farone
Unless a Spanish citizen was a victim of the genocide or the war crimes occurred in Spanish territory, the Spanish courts cannot hear... [read post]
8 Apr 2009, 5:02 am
The three men were each found guilty [JURIST report] in February of war crimes and crimes against [read post]
10 Feb 2008, 7:58 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, has returned to ECCC custody after his hospitalization [JURIST report] last week, an official for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) said Sunday. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 7:19 am
The conviction comes after Boskic confessed to his role in the massacre, where 1,200 unarmed prisoners of war were killed, accepting a plea agreement with the BiH Prosecutor's Office [official website]. [read post]
26 Feb 2024, 6:15 am by Jenny Maddocks
Department of Defense’s (DoD) Law of War Manual, first published in 2015, sets out the DoD’s authoritative interpretation of international law on matters relating to armed conflict. [read post]
Today, we reaffirm our unwavering support for and solidarity with Ukraine in the face of ongoing Russian war of aggression for as long as it takes. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 4:51 am
Instead, the laws of war focused on protecting sacred objects and observances. [read post]
11 Jul 2009, 1:18 am
The newspapers, television and other media are covering the war in Afghanistan with increasing vigour and today we learn of the death of eight soliders in the past 24 hours. [read post]
2 Jan 2009, 9:44 am
For those keeping track of the Mexican cartel wars, the new year brings with it several must-read items:Fort Wort Weekly: Border Under SeigeDrug War Chronicle: Top Ten 2008 drug policy stories (see the final three items on Latin American cartel wars)The Narcosphere: Mexico's Drug Death Toll: 8,463 and countingThe New Criminologist: Are Mexican drug cartels the #1 organized crime threat in America? [read post]