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3 Sep 2010, 8:05 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Julian noted a couple of days ago that the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights have challenged the Obama administration’s “asserted authority to carry out ‘targeted killings’ of U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism far from any field of armed conflict. [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 11:58 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller The Washington Post is reporting that a State Department contractor has been charged with leaking defense information to Fox News: A State Department contractor was indicted Friday by a federal grand jury in the District, becoming the latest target of a series of investigations into unauthorized government leaks to news organizations under the Obama administration. [read post]
29 Aug 2010, 5:14 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Julian’s latest snide swipe at the ICC focuses on Bashir’s visit to Kenya, which he describes as a “slap in the face to the ICC Prosecutor and the defenders of the Bashir arrest warrant. [read post]
28 Aug 2010, 7:10 am
by Kevin Jon Heller So says a draft UN report that studied events in the Congo between 1993 and 2008: An exhaustive U.N. investigation into the history of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo has concluded that the Rwandan military and its allies carried out hundreds of large-scale killings of ethnic Hutu refugees during the 1990s that amounted to war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly genocide, according to a confidential copy of the report. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 5:28 am
by Kevin Jon Heller The report is here. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 3:43 am
by Kevin Jon Heller So reports Reuters: The Dutch prosecutor’s office said on Friday it would look into whether Dutch peacekeeping soldiers should face criminal charges over the 1995 massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 1:35 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Dave has kindly sent another post on piracy. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 10:26 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller I have to respectfully disagree with Dave’s interpretation of Judge Jackson’s decision. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 5:10 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Foreign Policy has added a new blog to its roster that should be of interest to readers. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 5:07 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Omar Khadr’s trial began a couple of days ago at Guantanamo. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 5:30 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Two commenters on my previous post on Kagame’s increasing authoritarianism questioned whether Rwanda arrested Peter Erlinder because of his representation of defendants at the ICTR. [read post]
11 Aug 2010, 4:58 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Hell must have had central air conditioning installed, because I find myself in complete agreement with Ruth Wedgwood’s recent post at EJIL: Talk! [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 2:20 am
by Kevin Jon Heller Actually, I’m not, although I’m confident Labor will pull out the election. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 2:27 am
by Kevin Jon Heller My friend Nancy Combs new book on international tribunals, Fact-Finding Without Facts: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions, has just been published by Cambridge University Press. [read post]
8 Aug 2010, 8:55 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller El Universal — along with other newspapers — is reporting that one of President Uribe’s final acts in office was to file a complaint with the ICC alleging that Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela, is responsible for permitting FARC guerrillas to use Venezuela as a staging area for crimes committed in Colombia: Jaime Granados, the lawyer of Colombian outgoing president Álvaro Uribe, on August 6 filed a complaint against… [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 12:57 am
by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve argued for the past couple of years that the ICC should open a formal investigation into the situation in Colombia, because it is a non-African situation that satisfies most, if not all, of my criteria for situational gravity: (1) crimes committed with government involvement; (2) systematic criminality; (3) socially alarming crimes such as enforced disappearance and torture. [read post]
31 Jul 2010, 6:01 pm
by Kevin Jon Heller Not surprisingly, the AU has condemned the ICC’s decision to issue an arrest warrant against Bashir for genocide. [read post]
29 Jul 2010, 3:16 am
by Kevin Jon Heller [The following is a guest-post written by Ifeoma Ajunwa, a human-rights attorney who is beginning a PhD at Columbia University in the fall. [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 4:59 am
by Kevin Jon Heller [The following is a guest-post by Lt. [read post]
24 Jul 2010, 4:44 am
by Kevin Jon Heller With an election scheduled for August 21, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony “Check Out My Speedo” Abbott were set to debate tomorrow night at 7:30 pm. [read post]
