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 […]
The Sudanese government appointed an alleged Janjaweed militia leader to a cabinet post. Human rights officials and observers in Washington accuse the appointee, Musa Hilal, with coordinating the Janjaweed militia during Darfur's bloody campaign. Human Rights Watch called on the U.N. Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, to urge the Sudanese president to revoke the appointment. Hilal denies […]
The U.S. District Court in New York sentenced a 25-year-old Canadian of Kuwaiti descent to life in prison for plotting in 2001 a bombing of the U.S. embassies in Manila and Singapore. The FBI in May 2002 arrested Mohammed Mansour Jabarah at a FBI-run safe-house in Oman for alleged al-Qaida suspects fleeing Afghanistan following the […]
Officials and judges from the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal for former members of the Khmer Rouge traveled to one of the disposed regime's villages to hold a town hall meeting for local residents. Five senior members of the Khmer Rouge were arrested in 2007 and charged with a variety of atrocities, including war crimes and […]
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, said Monday he wanted to see the detention facility at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, closed because it damaged American's international reputation. “I’d like to see it shut down,” Mullen said. “I believe that from the standpoint of how it reflects […]
Officials in the Rwandan capital of Kigali decided to hold a civilian trial examining the role of former Sen. Anastase Nzirasanaho in the 1994 genocide there. Nzirasanaho is classified in the “first category” of alleged planners of the genocide in Rwanda. He is also accused in the April 1994 murder of Theoneste Gafaranga, a leader […]
The war crimes tribunal for former Liberian president Charles Taylor proceeded for its third straight day at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone seated at The Hague, Netherlands. The court heard Wednesday details from one of Taylor's associates in the Special Security Service who said he had direct evidence suggesting Taylor financed and armed […]
The war crimes trial for former Liberian President Charles Taylor resumed its second day of testimony Tuesday. The hybrid Special Court for Sierra Leone seated at The Hague, Netherlands, heard testimony from a pastor who witnessed some of the atrocities that occurred during Taylor's tenure as president during the 1991-2002 civil war in neighboring Sierra […]
The war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor resumed at the international court in The Hague, Netherlands Monday. The trial is the first such case involving charges brought against a then-acting head of an African government. Taylor is charged with 11 counts of crimes against humanity, war crimes, conscripting child soldiers and sexual […]
A Bosnian war crimes court indicted a former commander of the Bosnian Serb army for a 1995 missile strike that killed 71 people in the United Nations safe zone of Tuzla. It seems the commander, Novak Djukic, ordered a single artillery shell into western Tuzla hitting a group of boys , ranging from 3-years-old to […]
Raila Odinga with Kenya's opposition Orange Democratic Movement called the recent “alleged” political killings by the ruling government there “genocide on a grand scale.” Various reports out of Kenya have children piling up in morgues and I remember hearing reports from local priests this week (Tuesday maybe?) of children setting churches ablaze with scores of […]
What a way to spark off the New Year not only with a nice piece on the International Criminal Court, but a nice piece about the ICC and the presidential candidates! And all this the day before the Iowa caucus. Was I a good boy last year, or what? So, it seems the San Francisco […]