The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (INR) , the body charged with investigating Nazi and communist-era crimes, on Tuesday began its investigation into crimes committed against Jewish women in a small northeastern Polish town during World...
The Constitutional Court of Germany on Tuesday ruled that the Bundestag , the national parliament, has the right to be heard on the European financial crisis. In the case...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday disqualified Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani from being a member of Parliament since his April contempt conviction . Chief Justice Iftikhar...
The first legal complaint against former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was filed on Monday for his alleged involvement in the French sale of submarines to Pakistan in the 1990s. Olivier Morice, the lawyer acting...
Italian prosecutors asked a court on Monday to sentence former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to three years and eight months in prison on fraud charges. Berlusconi, who resigned as prime minister in November, has...
Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday suspended the trial of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic due to an...
The Rwandan community courts set up to hear genocide-related cases, known as gacaca courts officially concluded their 10-year operation on Monday. The gacaca process has been praised by the UN as...
Bangladesh police on Sunday arrested Mir Kashem Ali for his alleged crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War . Earlier that day the International Criminal Tribunal in Bangladesh (ICTB) had issued an arrest...
Philippines President Beningno Aquino III on Monday signed the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012 which criminalizes the financing of terrorism. The new law will penalize an individual who organizes or directs the...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday condemned Eritrea for its failure to address the human rights violations in the country. In her opening statement to the 20th...
