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27 Jun 2014, 8:14 am
[JURIST] The use of lethal Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones [JURIST backgrounder] poses a risk of putting the US on a "slippery slope" to perpetual war, according to a report [text, PDF; press release] published Thursday by the Stimson Center [advocacy website]. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 5:53 am
The resolution, part of a national reconciliation effort, extends official pardons to warlords and alleged war criminals. [read post]
16 Sep 2005, 4:34 am
[JURIST] A German state court in Stuttgart ruled Thursday that a federal prosecutor is not required to bring war crimes charges against US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in connection with abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news archive] in 2003 and 2004. [read post]
11 May 2006, 9:35 am
[JURIST] UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour [official profile; JURIST news archive] on Thursday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] act more aggressively in prosecuting those suspected of war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region [JURIST news archive] shortly after her return from a visit [JURIST report] there. [read post]
26 Apr 2008, 1:35 pm
[JURIST] ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] on Saturday called on the government of Sudan to arrest and surrender two war crimes suspects wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website]. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 12:14 am
[JURIST] A Bosnian state court on Tuesday refused to extradite [press release] former Croatian parliament deputy Branimir Glavas [Trial Watch backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to Croatia to serve a sentence for war crimes. [read post]
27 Apr 2005, 7:45 pm
[JURIST] A document leaked to the BBC has raised new questions about the nature of the legal advice UK Prime Minister Tony Blair received from his Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, on the eve of the Iraq war. [read post]
18 Jan 2007, 11:59 am
[JURIST] More than a hundred officials of Saddam Hussein's regime have been charged for their roles in quelling the Shiite uprising [HRW report] following the 1990-91 Gulf War that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Shiites, according to Iraqi High Tribunal prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 4:31 am
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] Friday confirmed [press release] the transfer to The Hague of newly arrested [JURIST report] Bosnian Serb war crimes indictee Zdravko Tolimir [ICTY case backgrounder, PDF]. [read post]
18 Mar 2007, 2:46 am
West From Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson, just published by Yale University Press, is reviewed today in the Chicago Tribune by Elizabeth Young, Mt. [read post]
30 Aug 2023, 9:52 am
While we all can certainly take our pick of the various horrors plaguing our world, as a genderqueer person I tend to be mostContinue reading "Postcards from the Gender War: Job Hunting as a Trans Early-Career Librarian" [read post]
17 Mar 2005, 3:41 am
Stanisic faces seven counts of crimes against humanity and three violations of the laws of war [ICTY indictment text; press release] stemming from crimes that were [read post]
31 Jul 2012, 7:48 am
[JURIST] The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website], Cambodia's UN-supported war crimes tribunal, announced Monday that it has appointed [press release] a US judge to investigate two new Khmer Rouge [BBC backgrounder] cases, strongly opposed by the government, after two other judges resigned in protest. [read post]
3 Sep 2006, 8:17 am
[JURIST] A former Bosnian Serb police chief convicted of war crimes [PDF indictment] in 2001 was found dead in his home in Bosnia Friday with a gunshot to his head and a pistol in his hand. [read post]
16 Nov 2005, 1:39 am
[JURIST] Former Bosnian Army commander Sefer Halilovic [ICTY case backgrounder] was acquitted Wednesday by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website] on war crimes charges [indictment]. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 4:26 am
[JURIST] Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website; JURIST news archive] said Tuesday that Dragan Zelenovic [ICTY case backgrounder] will plead guilty to rape and murder charges stemming from the Bosnian Serb's time as a police officer and paramilitary leader during the Bosnian war. [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 1:10 pm
[JURIST] Guatemala [JURIST news archive] on Monday announced plans to declassify documents describing human rights abuses committed by its military during the country's 1960-1996 civil war [GlobalSecurity backgrounder]. [read post]
13 May 2012, 10:29 am
The release [AFP report] comes three years after the end of the country's 26-year civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
19 Jul 2006, 1:26 pm
[JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour [official profile; JURIST news archive] Wednesday threatened perpetrators of wanton violence against civilians in the current Middle East conflict with liability for war crimes. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 11:30 am
[JURIST] A senior lawmaker in Nepal on Thursday stated that those found guilty of committing crimes committed during Nepal's civil war could be granted amnesty due to the introduction of a new bill in parliament on Wednesday that aims to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission [text] and a Commission on the Disappeared. [read post]
