The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Thursday welcomed the new electoral law adopted by the National Transitional Council (NTC) . The draft of the electoral law...
Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday rendered a judgment against Jelena Rasic, sentencing her to 12 months imprisonment on contempt charges. The judgment...
The Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Friday sentenced Kaing Guek Eav , also known as "Duch," to life imprisonment for crimes against...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday that Syrian army and security officers have been engaged in the torture of children . The allegations stem from HRW's documentation of cases in which children were reportedly detained, tortured...
Haiti's Investigative Magistrate Carves Jean ruled Monday that former president Jean-Claude Duvalier will not stand trial for crimes against humanity, including torture, false imprisonment, rape and murder during his reign between 1971 and 1986....
Amnesty International (AI) Thursday reported the recent deaths of several Libyan detainees who were apparently tortured while in custody . The deaths come amid allegations of widespread torture and ill-treatment of detainees accused of being pro-Gaddafi...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday condemned Iraq's execution of 34 individuals, including two women, last week. All 34 executions occurred on a single day for crimes described as terrorism-related offenses...
Haitian Judge Ezekiel Vaval convicted eight police officers on Thursday for their participation in the shooting and killing of at least 10 prisoners after the January 2010 earthquake . The judge also found that six other police...
The Ingolstadt Prosecutor's Office filed a motion on Thursday to jail Klaas Faber, a Dutch native who fled to Germany after being convicted in the Netherlands in 1947 of Nazi war crimes. He is one...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) transferred prosecution materials to the Rwandan government on Monday for the first time with respect to a case stemming from the 1994 Rwandan genocide [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...
