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Former Member of Parliament Receives Death Sentence (March 12, 2013) by Shameema Rahman

On February 28, 2013, the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), in its third decision to date, found a former Member of ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: Bangladesh

Convicted War Criminal Sentenced to Death (January 25, 2013) by Shameema Rahman

A court in Bangladesh known as the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has sentenced a former leader of the country's largest Islamic ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: Bangladesh

Final Trial Opens (October 19, 2012) by Constance Johnson

On October 16, 2012, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) began its last trial. Goran Hadzic is the ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

Preliminary Investigation Launched into Recent Violence (July 23, 2012) by Constance Johnson

On July 18, 2012, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, stated that an inquiry is being ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: International Criminal Court / Mali

Katyn Massacre Case Is Closed (May 11, 2012) by Peter Roudik

On April 16, 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued its decision in the case Janowiec and Others v. ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: European Court of Human Rights / Russian Federation

Islamist Opposition Leader Arrested (January 17, 2012) by Tariq Ahmad

The former head of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party in Bangladesh, Ghulam Azam, was arrested on January 11, 2012, after the International ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: Bangladesh

On the Defensive over Heavy Involvement in Africa (July 06, 2011) by Hanibal Goitom

As it prepares to launch yet another investigation into the recent conflict in Ivory Coast, the International Criminal Court (ICC) finds ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: International Criminal Court

Genocide Tribunal Begins Hearings in New Trial (June 29, 2011) by Wendy Zeldin

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) opened hearings on June 27, 2011, in the trial of four high-ranking ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: Cambodia

Former Minister Convicted of Crimes Committed During 1994 Genocide (June 27, 2011) by Hanibal Goitom

On June 24, 2011, the Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) convicted Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, Rwanda's former Minister for Family ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: Rwanda

Court Ruling on Genocide Law (June 07, 2011) by Constance Johnson

On June 1, 2011, Denmark's 1955 genocide law was ruled not applicable to the prosecution of foreigners for genocidal acts committed ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: Denmark

Sexual Violence Trial Begins (May 17, 2011) by Constance Johnson

On May 4, 2011, the trial of two men from Rwanda accused of ordering others to carry out massacres and multiple ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: Congo, The Democratic Republic of the / Germany

Panel Finds Reports of War Crimes Credible (April 29, 2011) by Constance Johnson

On April 25, 2011, the United Nations released the report that a panel of experts had completed about a month earlier, ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: Sri Lanka / United Nations

Convictions in War Crimes Trials (April 26, 2011) by Constance Johnson

On April 15, 2011, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), a United Nations-sponsored war crimes tribunal based in ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: Croatia

Calls for Inquiry into Possible Human Organ Sales (February 23, 2011) by Constance Johnson

On February 16, 2011, Lamberto Zannier, Special Representative of the United Nations in Kosovo, called for an inquiry into allegations of ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: Kosovo

Examination of Recent Incidents as Possible War Crimes (December 09, 2010) by Constance Johnson

On December 7, 2010, Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), stated that following the receipt of ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: International Criminal Court / South Korea

War Crimes Case Confirmed (October 26, 2010) by Constance Johnson

On October 19, 2010, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it was charging a former official of the Democratic Republic ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: Congo, The Democratic Republic of the / International Criminal Court

Commission Warns Government over Legality of Its Torture Policy (October 06, 2010) by Clare Feikert-Ahalt

In July 2010 the United Kingdom's coalition government released guidance that addresses the detention and interviewing of overseas detainees and gives ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: United Kingdom

National DNA Database Found Constitutional, with Reservations (October 04, 2010) by Nicole Atwill

The French Constitutional Council recently reviewed the constitutionality of several articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to the National ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: France

Law to Adapt France's Criminal Code to the International Criminal Court (September 20, 2010) by Nicole Atwill

France's Law 2010-930 of August 9, 2010, on adapting the Criminal Code to the International Criminal Court, aims at implementing the ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: France

Human Rights Commissioner Asks Return of Blood Diamonds (August 19, 2010) by Constance Johnson

Sierra Leone's Human Rights Commissioner, Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff, recently called for the return of the "blood diamonds" that internationally known model Naomi ...

Topic: War crimes
Jurisdiction: Sierra Leone

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Last updated: March 12, 2013