The Office of Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutor said Friday that it is investigating "informal statements" it has received from investigators at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) that dozens of imprisoned Serbs...
Judges ousted by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf after his declaration of emergency rule last November can only be reinstated if the newly elected members of the National Assembly of Pakistan strike down constitutional changes...
The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Tuesday indicted a Bosnian Serb ex-soldier for crimes against humanity allegedly committed against Muslims in the Bosnian war of the...
A second employee of French bank Societe Generale has been detained in connection with the investigation into fraudulent activity allegedly committed by rogue trader Jerome Kerviel , the bank said Tuesday. A Societe Generale spokesperson did...
The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Wednesday upheld the conviction of Catholic priest Father Athanase Seromba for genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity during the...
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Tuesday that he "has not and will not" meet with any member of Uganda's Lord Resistance Army (LRA) . The statement came...
The military government of Myanmar on Friday brought charges against 20 pro-democracy dissidents under a new security law, charges which carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison. The dissidents were charged under the...
The Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday upheld the nation's first felony conviction for computer spamming, rejecting admitted spammer Jeremy Jaynes' appeal of a lower court ruling that Virginia's anti-spamming statute does not violate...
The human rights of inmates in Nigerian prisons are "systematically violated," Amnesty International said in a Tuesday report based on visits to 10 prisons across Nigeria over the last six months. According to...
Leaders of 34 international bar associations and law societies called for the "immediate closure" of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in a letter released Monday. The letter, addressed to US President George W. Bush and...
