The prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Wednesday asked the UN Security Council to extend the ICTR's mandate so that the court can complete all war crimes trials. Hassan Bubacar Jallow [official...
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The Prosecutor v. Yussuf Munyakazi, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, May 28, 2008 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported...
Rwanda justice officials criticize ICTR refusal to transfer genocide suspect
Rwandan justice officials Friday criticized a decision by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) denying a motion to transfer an accused genocide leader to the Rwandan court system for trial. An...
Accused Rwanda war crimes suspect Michel Bagaragaza was transferred from the Hague back to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania Wednesday after a...
Kenya prosecutor urges court to freeze assets of Rwandan war crimes suspect
Kenyan Chief Prosecutor Keriako Tobiko Tuesday asked the country's high court to freeze the assets of wealthy Hutu businessman and Rwandan war crimes suspect Felicien Kabuga . Kabuga is accused of funding Rwandan militias that...
ICTR begins genocide trial of former Rwanda government minister
Former Rwandan Minister of the Interior Callixte Kalimanzira went to trial Monday before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Kalimanzira, who served as interior minister during the 1994 genocide , is...
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that recently disclosed US Department of Justice letters to US Senate Intelligence Committee member Ron Wyden (D-OR) on detainee interrogations reflect a misleading and erroneous understanding of...
The United Nations has a "moral duty to act on the lessons of Rwanda," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday in an address to mark the fourteenth anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide [HRW backgrounder; BBC...
ICTR appeals chamber increases Rwanda Catholic priest sentence to life in prison
The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Wednesday upheld the conviction of Catholic priest Father Athanase Seromba for genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity during the...
Summary of the Judgment of of the Appeals Chamber: The Prosecutor v Athanase Seromba, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, March 12, 2008 [upholding the conviction of Catholic priest Father Athanase Seromba for genocide and extermination during the 1994 genocide in...
