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25 Mar 2003, 10:54 am
[JURIST] President Bush Tuesday asked Congress to authorize a supplemental budget of $74.7 billion - almost 1% of the Gross Domestic Product - to pay for the war in Iraq and other military commitments ($62.6 billion), to provide humanitarian assistance for Iraqis ($2.4 billion), and to strengthen homeland defenses in the war on terror ($4.25 billion, including new allocations for the Department [read post]
15 May 2007, 8:19 am
[JURIST] Vladimir Vukcevic [official profile], war crimes prosecutor of Serbia, told reporters Tuesday that the search for former Bosnian Serb military chief and UN-indicted war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic [ICTY case backgrounder; JURIST news archive] "has not stopped for even a moment" and hinted at progress that will "soon [will] be able to [be] seen. [read post]
18 Jan 2007, 6:02 am
"Officer facing court-martial denounces war": The Los Angeles Times today contains an article that begins, "The nation's first Army officer to refuse deployment to Iraq urged the public in a statement Wednesday to 'stop the war so that the death and sacrifices of American soldiers will not be in vain' after a major legal setback in his court-martial proceedings. [read post]
27 Jun 2005, 12:25 pm
[JURIST] The World Tribunal on Iraq [advocacy website] an unofficial grouping of antiwar activists and intellectuals who have held some 20 meetings around the world over the last two years, concluded its final session [JURIST report] in Istanbul Monday by releasing a scathing preliminary declaration [full text] insisting that the Iraq war was an illegal war of aggression based on false [read post]
26 May 2009, 6:35 am
[JURIST] Delegates to Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) [official website] have recommended that a war crimes court be established to try individuals accused of committing atrocities during the country's 1989-2003 civil war. [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 11:37 am
[JURIST] Serbia will arrest wanted war crimes fugitive Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic [ICTY case backgrounder; JURIST news archive] and transfer him to the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague within the year, President Boris Tadic [official website] said Friday. [read post]
21 Oct 2009, 5:29 am
[JURIST] Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor [official profile] called Wednesday for an independent Israeli investigation into the war crimes allegations detailed in the Goldstone report [text, PDF], which accuses Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) [official website] and Hamas [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] fighters of war crimes during last winter's Operation Cast Lead [GlobalSecurity [read post]
26 Jul 2006, 9:07 am
[JURIST] The UK Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that Military Families Against the War (MFAW) [advocacy website], a group of families with members who have died in Iraq, is entitled to apply for judicial review of the government's decision not to hold an independent inquiry into why the UK went to war. [read post]
28 Jan 2009, 12:07 am
The discussions of March 13 and 17, 2003, centered on the legality [BBC report] of a possible Iraq war. [read post]
13 Apr 2009, 11:20 pm
[JURIST] Chief prosecutor of the Serbian Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor [official website] Vladimir Vukcevic said Monday that Serbia would ask the US for the extradition of alleged Nazi war criminal Peter Egner after his US citizenship is revoked. [read post]
25 Jul 2006, 11:12 am
[JURIST] Momcilo Mandic, the former Bosnian Serb justice minister in the wartime government under Radovan Karadzic [ICTY case backgrounder], pleaded not guilty [press release] at the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [HRW backgrounder] on Tuesday to charges [JURIST report] of war crimes, crimes against humanity, embezzlement and fraud. [read post]
31 May 2016, 6:07 pm
"'Star Wars' is about freedom of choice": Today at "The Volokh Conspiracy," Cass Sunstein has a post that begins, "If you'd told me a year ago that I would end up writing a book about 'Star Wars,"'I wouldn't have believed you. [read post]
13 Jan 2008, 7:08 am
[JURIST] Croatian lawmaker Branimir Glavas [personal website; Trial Watch profile], charged with committing war crimes against Serbs during the 1991 Serbo-Croatian war [GlobalSecurity backgrounder], was stripped of his parliamentary immunity on Saturday so that lawyers could proceed with his prosecution. [read post]
21 May 2010, 9:08 am
HRW examined more than 200 photographs taken during the last months of the civil war, which ended one year ago, and discovered several photos depicting human... [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 5:10 am
Stankovic was convicted of multiple war crimes [JURIST report] in 2006, including rape, enslavement and torture. [read post]
14 Oct 2003, 9:49 am
Read Justice Denied on the Road to Baghdad: Safety of Journalists and the Killing of Media Staff During the Iraq War[PDF]. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 3:48 am
[JURIST] UK police on Monday arrested former Bosnian vice president Ejup Ganic for war crimes in connection with a 1992 attack against Serbian soldiers. [read post]
8 Apr 2009, 12:59 am
[JURIST] The government of Bangladesh [JURIST news archive] said Tuesday it is working with the UN to organize war crimes [JURIST news archive] prosecutions for alleged violations stemming from the country's 1971 War of Independence [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] against Pakistan [JURIST news archive] and is considering trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website; JURIST news [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 5:06 am
"Group wants Supreme Court to save war memorial": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "Supporters of a war memorial cross deemed unconstitutional last year by a federal court plan to ask the Supreme Court to reverse the decision, amid a growing fight nationwide over the use of religious symbols to honor fallen troops. [read post]
31 May 2008, 2:53 pm
[JURIST] A Croatian district court judged convicted a retired Croatian general of war crimes Friday for failing to prevent his soldiers from torturing and killing Serbs and destroying their property during the Croatian War of Independence. [read post]
