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A Rwandan community court convicted a Catholic nun of genocide charges Friday for assisting in the Hutumassacre of Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . The nun, Theopister Mukakibibi, reportedly aided Hutu extremist groups and facilitated...

Lawyers in Jordan held a one-hour strike Tuesday to protest the death sentences imposed over the weekend against Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants in the Dujail crimes against humanity case [JURIST news archive; BBC trial...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is keeping 4 acquitted genocide suspects in custody because no other countries were willing to accept them, the court announced Friday. The suspects acquitted by the court...

A seven-man Rwandan government commission began an official probe Tuesday into accusations that France assisted a Hutu massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 genocide . Rwanda's current Tutsi President Paul Kagame [official...

The ruling party of Rwanda announced Friday that it had directed its lawmakers to support a forthcoming bill to abolish the death penalty . Leaders of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) voted...

In a plenary session of the UN General Assembly Monday, judges from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official website; JURIST news...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Monday began the trial of a former deputy state prosecutor who later worked as an ICTR investigator under an alias by formally charging him with four counts ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that the "compromise" between senior Republican lawmakers and the White House on the terms of military commission legislation governing detainee interrogation and trial provides US interrogators with...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Wednesday unanimously acquitted former education minister Andre Rwamakuba on genocide charges, ruling that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond...

The government of Rwanda and the UN-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday resolved a dispute over the court's alleged hiring of genocide suspects by agreeing to improve information-sharing mechanisms...