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Austrian legislators want Schwarzenegger citizenship revoked over execution

January 23, 2005 11:03:00 AM

A top official in Austria's environmentalist Green Party said Saturday that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger should lose his Austrian citizenship in the wake of his approval last week of the first California execution in three...

January 22, 2005 07:44:00 PM

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has canceled plans to fly to Germany in February to attend the Munich Conference on Security Policy , giving rise to speculation that the cancellation is connected with a war...

January 20, 2005 09:43:00 AM

In Thursday's international brief, Savo Todovic, former deputy commander of the Serb-run Foca concentration camp , was officially charged at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on Wednesday....

January 18, 2005 11:14:00 AM

Human rights group Amnesty International Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Sudan to the International Criminal Court at The Hague. The group argued that the UN must allow the ICC...

January 18, 2005 08:06:00 AM

Adolfo Scilingo , the former Argentine naval officer on trial in Spain for committing genocide and crimes against humanity during Argentina's "Dirty War" , took the stand for the first time...

January 14, 2005 01:24:00 PM

Former Argentine Navy captain Adolfo Scilingo appeared in a Spanish court Friday where he is on trial for committing genocide during Argentina's "Dirty War." In addition to genocide, Scilingo also faces 30 charges of murder, 93 of causing injury,...

January 14, 2005 05:12:00 AM

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Friday, January 14.At the United Nations, the Security Council will meet at 10 AM ET for closed consultations on Iraq. The trial of Fatmir...

January 11, 2005 01:55:00 PM

The trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resumed Tuesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague with testimony by a French nurse who worked in Croatia during the Bosnian...

December 29, 2004 10:23:00 AM

Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, now a maverick war crimes lawyer and an outspoken critic of American foreign policy on Iraq who held office in the 1960s under President Lyndon Johnson, has joined the legal team defending Saddam...

December 24, 2004 03:53:00 PM

The French newspaper Liberation said Friday that an unpublished UN report it has obtained catalogues a plethora of major rights abuses in the conflict-wracked African state of Cote d'Ivoire over the past two years, including mass execution, torture and...

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