War Crimes

The Iraqi Presidential Council said Friday they removed the blockade on the execution of Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as “Chemical Ali.”  It was delayed in June 2007 over obstacles in the legal procedure for handing down death sentences.  The council is made up of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, and his two vice […]

Officials overseeing the tribunal examining the atrocities committed by Cambodia's notorious Khmer Rouge regime led its seminal prison leader, Kaing Guek Eav, known simply as “Duch,” through the prison system he once ran.  Tribunal officials lead Duch through a “re-enactment” of the systematic torture conducted at the converted high-school called the S-21 prison.  Duch, a […]

Reuters Tuesday, February 26, 2008 GUATEMALA CITY: Guatemala's new President Alvaro Colom said on Monday he will open army files for the first time to make public details of massacres and torture by soldiers during the country's 36-year civil war. “We are going to make all of the army's archives public so we can know […]

The federal prosecution against a former U.S. navy sailor for terrorism charged opened Monday in Connecticut.  Hassan Abu-Jihaad stands accused of providing material support to terrorists with the intent to harm or kill U.S. citizens.  The U.S. government alleges that Abu-Jihaad obtained classified evidence regarding Navy fleet movements in the Straits of Hormuz and sent […]

The former chief military prosecutor for the war crimes tribunal at the U.S. naval detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba said he would testify on behalf of the personal driver for Osama bin Laden, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. Air Force Col. Morris Davis told The Associated Press Thursday he would appear at the Hamdan trial. “I […]

VIENNA, Austria (AP) ‚ A woman who was being investigated in Austria for allegedly beating an inmate to death while serving as a Nazi concentration camp guard has died, authorities said Thursday. She was 85. Erna Wallisch died in a hospital Saturday of unspecified causes, the Austrian Interior Ministry said. Because of her death, Austrian […]

From UPI. Uganda and LRA close to cease-fire deal Published: Feb. 19, 2008 at 1:40 PM   KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb. 19 (UPI) — Ugandan officials agreed to let domestic courts try alleged war criminals as part of negotiations for a final peace agreement with rebels, a report says. The Ugandan national newspaper, New Vision, said […]

“Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution” Uh … yeah? Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia entered the torture debate Tuesday in an interview with the BBC making some […]

The U.S. Defense Department said Monday it will ask for the death penalty for six high-value targets at Guantanamo Bay, including the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed. The legal advisor to the military commission overseeing the Guantanamo Bay cases, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, said the men will be charged with […]

A lead prosecutor for the war crimes tribunal at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay said the U.S. military lost a year's worth of records pertaining to the detention of Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. Hamdan's legal counsel requested access to the records to support their claim that his detention left him […]

An opposition leader with Kenya's Orange Democratic Movement, David Kimutai Too, was killed in what police officials described as a “crime of passion.”  ODM leader Raila Odinga called the killing an execution targeting ODM members. “David Kimutai Too was killed by a policeman. I condemn this second execution of an ODM member of parliament. The […]

A federal judge in Miami sentenced the alleged Islamic terrorist, Jose Padilla, to 17 years and four months for conspiring with terrorist cells around the world.  Padilla and two others received convictions in August for conspiracy to kidnap and kill citizens abroad and two lesser charges of material support.  Judge Marcia Cooke of the Federal […]