World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 25 November 2017 News
World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 25 November 2017

Here’s the international legal news we covered this week:

Former Bosnian Serb Army Commander Ratko Mladić was sentenced to life imprisonment [judgment summary] Wednesday by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] for crimes committed during the Bosnian conflict from 1992-1996.
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[JURIST] Venezuelan Supreme Court justices currently in exile have filed a complaint [Supreme Tribunal of Justice materials, in Spanish] with the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] accusing President Nicolas Maduro [Britannica backgrounder] of crimes against humanity.
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Speaking in a cabinet meeting on Monday US President Donald Trump announced [remarks] that the US is re-designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism nine years after it was removed from the list.

Trump stated, “Today the United States is designating the North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) [party website] on Sunday demanded the resignation [materials] of 93-year-old Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe [BBC profile].
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Sweden’s Supreme Court [official website, in Swedish] ruled [judgment, PDF, in Swedish] it is illegal to grow cannabis to self-medicate.
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] called [press release] Monday for the nations at the UN disarmament meeting later this week to strengthen international law surrounding incendiary weapons [HRW backgrounder] in response to the use of such weapons by the Syrian and Russian forces in 2017.
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THIS DAY @ LAW

Montgomery started racially-integrated bus service after boycott

On December 21, 1956, buses in Montgomery, Alabama, started racially-integrated service following federal court rulings ending on-board segregation.

Bus boycott leaders Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy were among the first riders under the new scheme. Learn about the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Stalin born

On December 21, 1879, Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia. In 1922, he would become leader of the USSR until his death in 1953. During his time as Soviet dictator, Stalin industrialized his country, which he then led to become one of the world's two superpowers after WWII. Through his infamous purges, show trials and nationwide famines, Stalin also became responsible for more deaths than any man in history.

Read documents regarding the USSR under Joseph Stalin from the U.S. Library of Congress.