International Criminal Tribunals

Rwanda genocide survivors may boycott U.N. court

KIGALI (Reuters) - Survivor groups from Rwanda's 1994 genocide say they may stop sending witnesses to the U.N. tribunal in Tanzania, in protest at the court's recent acquittals of two genocide suspects.

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Danish government must arrest Sudanese President if he attends climate conference

Amnesty International has learned that the Danish government has invited Sudanese President Omar al Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, to attend...

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CJI for joint international probe into terrorist acts

New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) Chief Justice of India (CJI) K.G. Balakrishnan Saturday endorsed a suggestion for joint international probes into acts of terrorism and trial of terrorists by a supranational tribunal such as the...

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British lawyer appointed for Karadzic war crimes trial

A British lawyer has been appointed the stand-in counsel for Radovan Karadzic at his war crimes trial in The Hague. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said Richard Harvey will act for Karadzic, the...

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Tanzania: Rwandan Priest Cleared of Genocide Charges

A UN court, the ICTR has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) ordered the immediate release of Fr....

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Ruto Moves to Clear Name in Poll Chaos Report

Nairobi — Agriculture minister William Ruto Friday moved to court seeking to expunge his name from a report linking him to post-election violence. In an application certified urgent, Mr Ruto says the report by the Kenya...

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U.S. Meddles Again in International Criminal Court

Howard Zinn in the July 2009 issue I want to talk about three holy wars. They aren’t religious wars, but they’re the three wars in American history that are sacrosanct, that you can’t say anything bad about: the Revolutionary...

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Kenya: Top Jurist Denies Hague Plot to Soil Africa

Nairobi — African countries have been urged to support the International Criminal Court to promote justice and peace. The president of the appeals division at the ICC, Prof Daniel Nsereko, on Thursday said that Kenyans should...

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U.S. eases stand on global criminal court

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The American war-crimes ambassador said yesterday that the United States was committed to ending impunity for crimes against humanity, in a speech signaling a softening of hostility toward the...

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Lawyer imposed on Karadžić represented Albanians

British lawyer Richard Harvey has been appointed as former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić’s legal counsel, the Hague Tribunal has decided. The court stated today that its Secretariat provided Karadžić the possibility to...

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