Iraqi tribunal could violate international standards, rights group warns
The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (formerly known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal ), the court established to try Saddam Hussein and other former Iraqi officials, could violate international standards for fair trials, according to a...
China warns of abuse of UN agreement on genocide intervention
China has warned the UN against abusing a new international right to intervene to protect those threatened by genocide or war crimes agreed to last week at a UN summit. Chinese Foreign Minister Li...
The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Wednesday sent 10 cases for suspects in the country's 1994 genocide to Rwandan national courts, citing a need to meet its deadline of completing all trials...
The government of Rwanda announced Monday that it would release up to 30,000 prisoners suspected of involvement in the 1994 genocide and other war crimes on a provisional basis. According to the Prosecutor General, those...
No deportation of Rwanda war crimes suspect from Canada unless death penalty waived
Despite a Supreme Court of Canada order that Rwandan Leon Mugesera should be deported amidst accusations of inciting genocide in his home country, Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler said Friday...
Canadian high court says Rwandan accused of war crimes must be deported
The Supreme Court of Canada Tuesday ruled unanimously that Rwandan Leon Mugesera , accused of inciting genocide, must be deported from Canada. In 1992 Mugesera gave a speech in Rwanda encouraging Hutus to kill Tutsis,...
Burundi to set up reconciliation commission and war crimes chamber
Burundi on Wednesday approved a United Nations plan to establish a truth and reconciliation commission with a special war crimes chamber to investigate decades of bloody conflict between local Hutus and Tutsis going back to the country's independence in...
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that an International Criminal Court finding of genocide in Sudan could change negative American attitudes towards the new Hague tribunal... Genocide may yet be found to have occurred...
Why the International Criminal Court Needs Darfur (More Than Darfur Needs the ICC)
JURIST Guest Columnist Elena Baylis of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that while Darfur may be a dream case for the International Criminal Court, the value of the International Criminal Court for Darfur is yet to be...
The trial of two Rwandan men accused of war crimes during the 1994 Rwandan genocide begins Monday in Brussels. Half-brothers Etienne Nzabonimana and Samuel Ndashyikirwa are accused of helping the Hutu militia and are charged under Belgium's...
