Former war crime fugitive and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic refused Friday to enter a plea at the U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia, saying he did not recognize the authority of the court. Karadzic stands accused of overseeing a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign against Muslims and Croats in the area, including a massacre at […]
The International Criminal Court at the Hague Thursday charged former U.N. war crimes spokesperson Florence Hartmann with two counts of contempt for disclosing sensitive information regarding Slobodan Milosevic during his prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugloslavia. The Hague accuses Hartmann of disclosing the information in her 2007 book, “Peace and Punishment,” […]
Joanne Tomkinson for Reuters has this piece highlighting some of the criticisms against current chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo. Tomkinson points to an article in The Guardian where several representatives of Human Rights Watch have criticized the management of Moreno-Ocampo. Supporters of the court fear that Moreno-Ocampo's style of management is […]
Luis Moreno Ocampo, the chief prosecutor for the international court at The Hague, said Wednesday his office is assessing allegations of war crimes in Georgia. Ocampo met with Russian and Georgia officials to go over claims of attacks on non-combatants in the conflict over the breakaway republic of South Ossetia. “My office considers carefully all […]
As Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announces he will punish Georgia, reports from the war-torn country suggest that Russia may not be fully withdrawing. Both France – the current president of the European Union – and the United States cautioned Russia to abide by the terms of the ceasefire. Meanwhile, the Manchester Guardian notes that Georgia's […]
BAGHDAD, Aug. 18 (UPI) — An Iraqi court resumed session Monday in the case against former Iraqi Deputy Premier Tariq Aziz for the execution of several merchants in 1992. Aziz, a Christian, and seven other defendants face war crimes charges in an Iraqi court for ordering the execution of several businessmen who had protested rising […]
As Jurist notes, Georgia has filed a complaint against Russia at the ICJ, and Russia is seeking evidence of war crimes by Georgian forces.
The U.N. backed tribunal for the Khmer Rouge included war crimes on the indictment for the notorious prison leader, Kaing Guek Eav, or “Duch.” Duch, who faces charges for crimes against humanity, had war crimes added to his list of charges stemming from atrocities during the reign of the regime from 1975 to 1979. Five […]
As everyone reading this almost certainly knows, Russia invaded Georgia on Friday in support of separatists in the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia – the locations of the so-called “frozen conflicts.” Pravda accuses the President of Georgia, Mikhal Saakashvili, of “war crimes against humanity” as a result of Georgia's attempts to pacify South […]
The jury in the U.S. war crimes trial of Salim Hamdan delivered a sentence Thursday of 5 ½ years in prison for providing material support to al-Qaida. With time served, the sentence amounts to slightly less than 5 months in jail. The Pentagon had sought a 30-year term for the former driver of Osama bin […]
The court at the U.S. naval detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday found Salim Hamdan, the personal driver for Osama bin Laden, guilty of supporting terrorism, though it acquitted him of conspiring with al-Qaida, Jane Sutton reported for Reuters. In the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II, the Bush administration , […]
First, the Times of London is reporting that the United Kingdom cut a deal with radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which resulted in British forces sitting out the critical battle for Basra last year. The Times reports that the attack has caused some friction between the US and the UK and dented Britain's relationship on the […]
Prosecutors Tuesday raised the possibility of declaring a mistrial for the first war crimes trail at Guantanamo Bay for Salim Hamdan, the personal driver for al-Qaida chief, Osama bin Laden, a report said. The disagreement came in distinguishing war crimes from regular crimes. Hamdan faces conspiracy charges for ferrying two surface-to-air missiles in the trunk […]
Prosecutors for the U.S. government Monday tried to paint Yemeni Salim Hamdan, the former driver for Osama bin Laden, as an enabler for the head of al-Qaida, a report said. His defense team, however, – as well as those who knew him, including alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammad, – said Hamdan was a […]
The Times reports that the Pakistani Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), a powerful intelligence service which fueled the Taliban's rise to power, aided a terrorist bombing at the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan last month. The bombing killed 54 people, one of whom was an Indian diplomat. In part because of the historical connection between […]