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11 Dec 2007, 7:33 am
[JURIST] Prosecution and defense lawyers said Tuesday that they will be ready to present evidence when the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor [SCSL case materials; JURIST news archive] resumes in January at the Special Court for Sierra Leone [official website]. [read post]
23 Dec 2009, 8:08 am
[JURIST] An Argentine court on Tuesday sentenced former judge Victor Brusa to 21 years in prison for crimes against humanity during the country's 1976-83 "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
26 Mar 2015, 11:19 am
[JURIST] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) [official website] on Wednesday urged all sides of conflict in Yemen to obey the rules of war, expressing concern over reports of civilian casualties following air strikes in the capital Sana'a and other parts of the country. [read post]
20 Jan 2005, 9:43 am
The indictment [official text in French] alleges a combination of war crimes, crimes against [read post]
29 Jan 2005, 9:29 am
[JURIST] The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission [AIHRC official website], a watchdog group supported by the UN and set up pursuant to the 2001 Bonn Agreement [text], called on the international community and the US-backed Afghan government [official website> Saturday to aid in the prosecution of war criminals. [read post]
4 Apr 2006, 3:54 am
[JURIST] British Defense Minister John Reid [official profile; BBC profile] on Tuesday called for changes to the international rules of war, including the Geneva Conventions [ICRC materials], in order to allow countries to better confront terrorism and other threats. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 2:58 pm
"Once-ousted Bush prosecutor promotes Guantanamo war court": Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has a news update that begins, "For hearings on whether U.S. forces tortured confessions out of a Canadian teenager accused of killing an American soldier in Afghanistan, the Pentagon Monday unveiled a new face to advocate military commissions: Fired former Bush-era prosecutor David Iglesias, a key figure in the so-called Attorney-Gate scandal. [read post]
22 Oct 2014, 12:06 pm
"Appeals court ponders future of war crimes trials": Lyle Denniston has this post today at "SCOTUSblog. [read post]
8 Feb 2005, 7:40 am
[JURIST] Sudan's vice president maintained his government's opposition [JURIST report] to any international criminal trials for war crimes committed in the Darfur region during a meeting with the UN Security Council [official website] Tuesday on Sudan [JURIST Countries]. [read post]
24 Jul 2008, 10:11 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Thursday convicted [judgment summary; press release] a Kosovar journalist on contempt of court charges and fined him 7,000 euros for revealing the identity of a witness in the war crimes trial of former Kosovar Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj [TrialWatch profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
24 Aug 2008, 8:40 am
[JURIST] Officials for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] announced Friday that a Scottish judge will preside over the preparatory stages of the upcoming war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic [ICTY materials; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
13 Sep 2004, 3:52 am
Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) released a report Monday which concludes that profiling based on racial or religious background has become a growing problem in the US as the government expands its war on terror. [read post]
11 Jan 2006, 7:27 am
[JURIST] Argentine judge Jorge Urso has decided to send accused Bosnian Serb war criminal Milan Lukic, arrested in Buenos Aires [JURIST report] in August, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [official website] in The Hague for trial, according to AFP sources. [read post]
2 Oct 2006, 12:25 pm
[JURIST] Eight former Serbian police officers went on trial Monday in Belgrade's special war crimes court charged [JURIST report] with the slaying of 48 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 6:05 am
[JURIST] Judge Iain Bonomy [official profile] of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Tuesday warned former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic [ICTY materials; JURIST news archive] not to cause any delays in his trial and gave him 14 days [order, PDF] to respond to a motion to amend [text, PDF; JURIST report] the [read post]
18 Jul 2005, 2:09 am
[JURIST] The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission [official website] said Monday that the government of Afghanistan is considering creating a war crimes court to deal with allegations of human rights abuses dating back to the Soviet invasion in the 1970s. [read post]
29 Aug 2007, 1:33 pm
[JURIST] Sudan [JURIST news archive] has failed to cooperate with the arrests of two suspects [ICC materials] wanted for allegedly committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official website] said Tuesday. [read post]
8 Jun 2008, 12:35 pm
[JURIST] The president of Sudan has refused to arrest or turn over two Sudanese war-crimes suspects wanted [press release] by the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website]. [read post]
29 Oct 2005, 10:37 am
According to the report, the deal could have averted war, but was thwarted when members of the League of Arab States [official website] refused to assent to the plan at an emergency [read post]
10 Jan 2007, 7:15 am
[JURIST] A coordinated hunger strike has halted proceedings before Bosnia's national war crimes after multiple defendants boycotted the court Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, demanding to be tried under the criminal code in place at the time of their alleged crimes, not under the 2003 criminal code [text] which authorizes forty-year maximum penalties for those crimes charged. [read post]
