Canada prosecutors charge second Rwanda genocide suspect under war crimes act
Canadian prosecutors announced Saturday that a Rwandan genocide suspect has been charged under Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act . Jacques Mungwarere, arrested Friday by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)...
Former Rwanda official sentenced to 8 years for complicity in genocide
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday sentenced former director of the Rwanda tea industry Michel Bagaragaza to eight years in prison on charges of complicity in genocide...
Canada court sentences Rwanda war criminal to life imprisonment
The Superior Court of Quebec on Thursday sentenced Rwandan Hutu Desire Munyaneza to life imprisonment with eligibility for parole after 25 years for war crimes committed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Munyaneza...
INTERPOL announced Thursday that Rwandan genocide suspect Emmanuel Uwayezu has been arrested in Italy. The former Rwandan clergyman had long been sought by Rwandan authorities in connection with the killings of approximately 80 Gikongoro province...
The trial of Rwandan genocide suspect Jean-Baptiste Gatete began Tuesday with opening statements from the prosecution and defense before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Gatete, the former Mayor...
Spain parliament passes law limiting reach of universal jurisdiction statute
The Spanish Congress of Deputies on Thursday gave final approval to a law limiting use of the country's universal jurisdiction statute to those offenses committed by...
Former Hutu intelligence chief Idelphonse Nizeyimana on Wednesday pleaded not guilty in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to charges related to his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide [HRW...
Former Hutu intelligence chief Idelphonse Nizeyimana , wanted for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide , has been arrested in Uganda, officials announced Tuesday. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)...
What Obama Should Have Said: US Compliance with International Law
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that to really deliver on his recent declaration at the UN that "international law is not an empty promise, and that Treaties will be enforced," President Obama...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, a legal adviser with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and co-founder and Associate Editor of Global Brief, Canada's first international affairs magazine, says that in order for the ICC to...
