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13 May 2008, 8:46 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] said Tuesday that it has transferred [press release] a former Bosnian Croat military commander who was convicted of war crimes related to the forced relocation and detention of Muslims during the 1991-95 Balkan Wars to an Italian prison to serve out his sentence. [read post]
14 May 2008, 5:41 am
[JURIST] A coalition of anti-war activists represented by the Constitutional Law Clinic at Rutgers University Law School-Newark [academic website] Tuesday filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release, PDF] in US District Court for New Jersey seeking a declaratory judgment that the war in Iraq violates the US constitution. [read post]
13 Oct 2006, 12:35 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] labeled anti-war activities as "potential terrorist activity" and monitored students, Quakers and other anti-war groups while collecting information for a domestic terror threats database, according to documents [case materials; press release] released Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union [advocacy website]. [read post]
30 May 2007, 8:59 am
[JURIST] A convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal who escaped from prison presents a threat to the security and judges of the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website; HRW backgrounder; JURIST news archive] Meddzida Kreso, president of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Tuesday. [read post]
28 Feb 2004, 2:24 pm
The environmental group is demanding this information it says so it can defend 14 activists who are facing charges stemming from an anti-war protest last year. [read post]
7 Apr 2004, 1:48 am
In what observers consider a remarkable ruling, a Japanese district court has ruled that Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's controversial visits to a Shinto shrine honoring Japan's World War II war dead are unconstitutional as a violation of the constitutionally-mandated separation of the state and religion. [read post]
2 Apr 2010, 12:21 pm
[JURIST] The Serbian Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor [official website] announced Friday that it has issued an international warrant for the arrest of alleged Nazi war criminal and naturalized American citizen Peter Egner [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
8 May 2007, 1:22 am
The article, Prologue to a Voluntarist War Convention, is [read post]
29 Nov 2005, 11:33 am
[JURIST] War crimes prosecutors and former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic [JURIST news archive] were in rare agreement Tuesday in their opposition to a proposal by judges [JURIST report] of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] to split Milosevic's war crimes trial. [read post]
5 Oct 2009, 12:02 am
Stories of Crimes, Trials and Appeals in Civil War Era Missouri is a new article by Frank O. [read post]
15 Mar 2007, 2:18 am
[JURIST] The Berkeley, California city council [official website] voted Tuesday to support the criminal complaint [introduction in English, PDF; full complaint text in German, part one and part two, PDF] filed in Germany against former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials and advisers [CCR list] for authorizing the commission of war crimes in the US "war on terror. [read post]
19 May 2004, 10:58 am
In a strongly-worded statement issued Wednesday and presumably timed to coincide with the first court-martial over the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, UK-based human rights group Amnesty International has called for the US Congress to establish an impartial and independent commission of inquiry to investigate US "war on terror" detentions across the globe:Since the outset of the "war on terror", the US [read post]
30 Mar 2005, 8:29 pm
[JURIST] The UN Security Council vote on whether to refer war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan has been delayed after a US request, UN representatives said Wednesday. [read post]
25 Mar 2005, 11:46 am
The panel was established under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998 [PDF text], and is charged with declassifying federal documents pertaining to [read post]
15 Dec 2005, 8:18 am
[JURIST] Carla del Ponte, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website], told the UN Security Council Thursday that Serbia and other European countries are contributing to a "dysfunctional" situation as the UN-backed war crimes tribunal struggles to arrest two top fugitives from the Bosnian war. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 8:00 am
[JURIST] A Sudanese man charged with aiding an International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] investigation of a Darfur [JURIST news archive] war crimes suspect appeared in court Monday. [read post]
15 Oct 2003, 3:32 am
Lord Alexander, former chairman of the UK Bar Council, questioned the legality of the Iraq war in an interview on BBC Radio 4 this morning. [read post]
21 Apr 2008, 7:11 pm
[JURIST] Serbia's war crimes court has charged four former members of a notorious Serbian paramilitary organization with war crimes stemming from their alleged involvement in a 1999 massacre of ethnic Albanian civilians in the Kosovar village of Podujevo, the Serbian prosecutor's office said Monday. [read post]
25 Apr 2008, 2:02 pm
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] said Friday that it has transferred [press release] a former Bosnian Croat leader who was convicted of war crimes related to the torture and persecutions of Muslims during the Bosnian War [JURIST news archive] to an Italian prison to serve out his sentence. [read post]
27 Feb 2006, 3:16 pm
[JURIST] Several Chinese companies have reportedly donated more than $315,000 to help pay for lawsuits against the Japanese government for war crimes allegedly committed by Japanese troops [Wikipedia backgrounder] during their occupation of part of China during World War II. [read post]
