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Former spokeswoman for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Florence Hartmann went on trial Monday to face accusations of contempt for allegedly publishing details of tribunal proceedings. Hartmann is...

JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder of William Mitchell College of Law, says that the recent conviction of "Chuckie" Taylor suggests that President-elect Obama has a chance to demonstrate, by example, what the Rule of Law and "equality before the law,"...

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that the experience of France - and some principled reflections - should make the US House of Representatives think...

A Swiss court Friday convicted Turkish Workers Party leader Dogu Perincek for denying that the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I constituted genocide . The Swiss canton...

Lawmakers in the French Senate have buried a draft bill that would have criminalized any denial that the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I constituted genocide. The bill has been...

The Turkish government has condemned the passage of legislation in Argentina which refers to the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey around the time of World War I as genocide and establishes a day of...

The Argentinean Senate has unanimously approved a bill that refers to the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey around the time of World War I as genocide and establishes a day of annual commemoration on...

The government of Turkey has officially condemned an Argentinean bill that refers to the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey around the time of World War I as genocide and establishes a day of annual commemoration on...

A Rwandan military court Thursday convicted a Roman Catholic Rwandan priest of genocide for rape and assisting the Hutu massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, who...

US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried Friday condemned the passage of a bill last week by the French lower house of parliament making it a crime to deny that killings...