International Tribunals

From the archive: Surviving Nazi leaders in the dock

Originally published on 21 November 1945 NUREMBERG, NOVEMBER 20. When Lord Justice Lawrence, British President of the International Tribunal, opened the great Nuremberg war trial this morning he called it unique in the history...

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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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Polish court evicts families from house owned by German

A Polish court has ruled that the current inhabitants of a house in the north of the country must leave so that it can be reclaimed by the ethnic German woman who owned it before leaving the country in the 1970s.

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Poland: Catholics Propose Adding Cross to National Emblem

The recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Soile Lautsi, who was offended by crucifixes displayed in her child's school in Italy, states : The compulsory display of a symbol of a given confession in...

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Military Tribunals - Justice Lite?

While Sarah Palin and other right-wing opportunists create a cottage industry in drumming up public hysteria about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terror suspects from Guantanamo coming to New York for trial, many legal...

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Ohio moves to resume executions under new protocol

canadaviews.ca This procedure would involve injecting a combination of two chemicals, midazolam and hydromorphone, into a large muscle of the prisoner such as the thigh. (Fri Nov 20 14:49:27 2009 PST) [$drug_related(100%),...

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Auditing the central bank: a jolly good thing!

What is so important about H.R. 1207: the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 aka the ‘Audit the Fed’ bill? This bill “To amend title 31, United States Code, to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the...

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Lawyer of the week: Paul Michell

Paul Michell, of Cloisters Chambers, acted for Sharon Coleman, the carer of her disabled son, in the landmark case in which the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that all carers are now protected by anti-discrimination...

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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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Asharq Al-Awsat Talks to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari

By Michel Abu Najm Paris, Asharq Al-Awsat- The Iraqi foreign minister has stated that iraq is going ahead with its effort to make the UN Security Council [UNSC] establish an international investigation commission or a...

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