Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese rebel leader accused of conscripting child soldiers, will face the International Criminal Court in March 2008, the ICC announced today. Lubanga, was arrested in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, during a crackdown following the murder and mutilation of nine U.N. peacekeepers. He allegedly forced children to undergo training for the armed wing […]
Cambodian police officials arrested the former foreign minister of the Khmer Rouge along with his wife Monday and brought before the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Officials detained Ieng Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith, at the tribunal headquarters in Phnom Pehn at dawn. A filing […]
The defense team for a Canadian citizen held at Guantanamo Bay on terrorist-related charges said the U.S. government withheld essential evidence in its effort to rush ahead with the tribunal in an attempt to validate its existence. Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler said the government withheld information obtained from several witnesses in his defense of […]
The status of a Canadian citizen accused of murder, conspiracy, and other terrorist related charges will be determined by a military court Thursday at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Omar Khadr, 21, will face a Military Commissions Review board to determine whether he is eligible for prosecution by the war crimes tribunal sitting at the naval detention […]
The war crimes trail for the chairman of the Serbian Radical Party resumed at the international court in the Hague Wednesday. Vojislav Seselj, 52, is one of the most senior officials of the government of the former Yugoslavia to face prosecution for war crimes during the Bosnian wars. Seselj faces prosecution for murder, persecution, inhumane […]
Lawyers for a detainee at Guantanamo Bay issued an appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court to delay his war crimes trial. Omar Khadr, a 21-year-old Canadian, faces the war crimes tribunal sitting at Guantanamo Bay for the death of a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. The appeal challenges the tribunal's authority to determine his combatant status […]
The Bush administration is considering several proposals granting more legal rights to detained terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. officials say the legal considerations are a move to close the detention facility at the U.S. naval base and transfer some of the detainees to other facilities in the United States. One proposal being considered […]
The Bush Administration's choice to for U.S. Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, refused to address the legality of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, skirting a potential legal watershed regarding prosecution against Central Intelligence Agency officers. At confirmation hearings before the Senate Wednesday, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., said that questioning directed at declaring waterboarding a form […]
The U.S. State Department sent a leader to leaders in the U.S. Senate declaring opposition by the Bush administration to a proposed bill that would punish U.S. foreign investors in Sudan. The bill would require U.S. states to divest from their investment portfolios any interests linked to foreign investment in Sudan. The bill punishes entities […]
The U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the occurrence of sexual violence against woman has reached “hideous and pandemic proportions.” Speaking at an open meeting discussing the implementation of a security council resolution passed in 2000 dealing with sexual violence, Ban said “violence against women has reached hideous and pandemic proportions in some […]
An independent investigator on human rights for the United Nations expressed grave concern regarding the detention of “unlawful enemy combatants” at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Martin Scheinin's report to the United Nations called on the United States to release the detainees or try them in civilian courts in a move aimed at […]
The chief prosecutor in the Iraqi High Tribunal examining the death of 180,000 in Iraqi Kurdistan from chemical weapons attacks said the death sentences against three former ministers should proceed. Munqith al-Faroon rejected the arguments that one minister, Sultan Hashim al-Tai, should be pardoned because he was only following orders. Al-Tai negotiated the cease-fire in […]
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