Russia seeks UN briefing on Hague jail conditions prior to Milosevic death
Russian diplomat Konstantin Dolgov has requested a UN briefing on conditions in UN detention facilities following the recent deaths of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian Serb Milan Babic . Dolgov also asked Tuesday...
Khodorkovsky appeals fraud conviction to European rights court
Mikhail Khodorkovsky , the former owner of Russian oil giant Yukos who was convicted of tax fraud last year and is now incarcerated in a Siberian prison , filed...
Belarus opposition party says 100 activists arrested in election protests
Approximately 100 opposition activists in Belarus have been detained for protesting the country's presidential elections over the weekend, which locked in a third term for Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko , a lawyer for...
The court-appointed advocates for the late Slobodan Milosevic have asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to release secret medical files that may provide further information on Milosevic's death. British barristers Steven...
Asylum seekers drop significantly in Western countries: UN report
The number of asylum applications submitted to industrialized countries has decreased for the fourth year in a row and the number of asylum seekers arriving in Western nations has plummeted by half in the last five years [UNHCR press...
Judge Fausto Pocar, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , released updated results Friday from the autopsy on Slobodan Milosevic indicating that toxicological tests undertaken by Dutch investigators showed...
Russia police officers plead not guilty to negligence in Beslan school hostage crisis
Three Russian police officers pleaded not guilty to charges of criminal negligence in connection with the Beslan school hostage crisis on Thursday as their trial opened in southern Russia. Prosecutors say the police failed...
The president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has directed the court's Trial Chamber to consider varying or lifting protective measures applied to certain materials in the case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic...
Two anonymous officials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Tuesday that the Tribunal had been informed several times by the ICTY prison warden that former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic ,...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia formally closed its war crimes case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic Tuesday, three days after he was found dead in his cell over...
