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Rwanda genocide tribunal seeks UN assistance in relocating acquitted men

October 8, 2010 12:26:16 PM

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday requested UN assistance in relocating former Rwandan transportation minister Andre Ntagerura . Ntagerura is presently living in Tanzania, with the ICTR paying for his accommodations. He was...

October 6, 2010 09:19:07 AM

Commander of the rebel Mai Mai Cheka Lieutenant Colonel Sadoke Kokunda Mayele was arrested Tuesday by UN peacekeepers and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government forces for allegedly...

October 1, 2010 01:55:52 PM

The UN on Friday released a report on war crimes and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The report, originally expected to be released in September , lists 617 of the most...

September 29, 2010 10:51:52 AM

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday announced a collaborative project that will support and strengthen regional courts in the former Yugoslavia . The ICTY, partnered with the Organisation for Security and...

September 17, 2010 02:39:07 PM

A Rwandan court on Friday sentenced opposition leader Deogratias Mushayidi to life in prison for recruiting rebels and trying to incite violence against the government of current Rwandan President Paul Kagame . Mushayidi was...

September 15, 2010 10:10:14 AM

A French court on Wednesday declined to extradite Dr. Eugene Rwamucyo to Rwanda to face charges for his alleged involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide . The court also granted his...

September 7, 2010 02:28:34 PM

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday began the trial of former Kivumu, Rwanda, mayor Gregoire Ndahimana . Ndahimana was charged in July 2001...

September 2, 2010 01:39:34 PM

Current and former international prosecutors on Tuesday signed the fourth Chautauqua Declaration praising recent advances in international law and urging countries to continue supporting the international courts in order to maintain the spirit of the Nuremburg Principles...

September 2, 2010 11:14:48 AM

The UN announced Thursday that it will delay the release of a report that accuses Rwandan forces of committing acts of genocide in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during...

August 31, 2010 03:43:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law responds to Peter Erlinder's article Rwanda: Flawed Elections and the Politics of 'Genocide Denial', saying that certain of Erlinder's criticisms of the ICTR are political or unfounded......

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THIS DAY @ LAW

White supremacists overthrow government in Wilmington, North Carolina

A group of white supremacists overthrew the government of Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898, killing at least dozens of Black people in the process. The city's Republican government resigned after the 500-2,000 strong white mob burned the offices of a Black-owned newspaper and terrorized black neighborhoods. The new state Democratic government passed laws in 1899 disenfranchising Black voters across North Carolina. Learn more about the 1898 Wilmington Coup.

Supreme Court limited free speech in wartime

On November 10, 1919, the US Supreme Court ruled in Abrams v. United States that the federal government could criminalize speech if it was of a type tending to bring about harmful results, in this case, resistance to the United States war effort. In a powerful dissenting opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes countered that even during wartime, free speech could only be curtailed when there was clear and "present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about."

Leonid Brezhnev dies

On November 10, 1982, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died of a heart attack. He had served as leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death. Following his death, the Soviet Union cycled through three more leaders during the 1980s until Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the country to dissolve in 1991. Read an obituary of Leonid Brezhnev from the New York Times.