A Fiji High Court judge Tuesday declared a mistrial in the case against former Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka , charged with inciting a military mutiny . Although High Court Justice Gerard Winter did not disclose his...
A Rwandan military court Thursday convicted a Roman Catholic Rwandan priest of genocide for rape and assisting the Hutu massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, who...
The US Department of Labor announced a settlement agreement Thursday with former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling , concluding the DOL's civil suit against him. The agreement provides that...
The High Court of Australia has held in two separate cases that a "holder of a temporary protection visa is not entitled to further protection in Australia if they are no longer in danger in the country...
Khalil al-Dulaimi, chief defense counsel for Saddam Hussein , said Wednesday that the Iraqi High Tribunal is obstructing his efforts to appeal Hussein's death sentence for crimes against humanity committed in the Iraqi town of...
US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , outgoing chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , has introduced a new bill, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Oversight and Resource Enhancement Act of 2006 , that would...
Incoming US Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) said Tuesday that his committee's priorities will include an investigation into CIA extraordinary rendition flights . In an interview with the Financial Times,...
Bosnia's national war crimes court sentenced a former Bosnian Serb soldier to 16 years in prison Tuesday in the first judgment handed down against a defendant transferred to Bosnia from the International Criminal Tribunal...
The UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights has said that Britain's Human Rights Act has "been used as a convenient scapegoat for unrelated administrative failings within government," in a new report...
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced Thursday that a coalition of US and international human rights groups plan to file a war crimes lawsuit against outgoing US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld...
