A five-soldier jury on Friday convicted Army Staff Sgt. David Bram, 27, for a list of charges stemming from his attempt to cover up drug use in his platoon and also to kill Afghan civilians. Bram was sentenced to five years in prison for solicitation to commit premeditated murder and failure to report crimes including [...]
The Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal (ICTB) began its first trial on Sunday for crimes against humanity committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 . The first suspect in this trial is Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a former member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh and one of the leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami [...]
Philip Morris Asia Ltd. (PMA) on Monday initiated legal proceedings on behalf of its Australian subsidiary Philip Morris Ltd. against the Australian government to block new plain package labeling requirements for tobacco products set to go into effect in December 2012. The company is also seeking compensation for the loss of value of its trademarks [...]
Japan’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld the death sentence of Aum Shinrikyo member Seiicho Endo who was sentenced to death in 2002 following his conviction for playing a central role in two nerve gas attacks in 1994 and 1995. The court let the death sentence stand after rejecting an appeal filed by Endo’s lawyers who [...]
Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) on Sunday delivered its final report on alleged abuses committed during the country’s civil war to President Mahinda Rajapaksa . The LLRC is a government appointed commission that has been investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity said to have occurred during the final stages of the [...]
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Monday officially opened the trial of three former Khmer Rouge officials charged with crimes against humanity, breach of international law and genocide. Prosecutors began their opening statements in the trial against Nuon Chea , the Khmer Rouge’s chief ideologist, Khieu Samphan , a former head [...]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , a UN-led scientific panel, on Saturday released the Summary for Policymakers of the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). The summary highlights a number of options available to policymakers to decrease the risk of disasters as [...]
Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib on Saturday pledged that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will receive a fair trial. A fugitive since his father’s regime fell last month , the highest-profile son of deceased former dictator Muammar Gaddafi was arrested on Friday in the desert near the southern city of Sabha. He remains in custody in Zintan, [...]
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday proposed a reduction in the amount of evidence they planned to present against former Serbian general and alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic in an effort to speed up his trial. The prosecutors are asking the court to reduce by nearly one half [...]
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday signed a law establishing a truth commission to investigate human rights abuses perpetrated by the military from 1946 to 1988. The bill does not, however, overturn the 1979 Amnesty Law which shields military officials from prosecution for crimes committed during the country’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship. Nearly 500 people were [...]
