Authorities in India have charged 30 people for their connections to the July 11 Mumbai train bombings which left 185 dead and approximately 700 injured. The suspects, mostly Muslims, include 15 Pakistanis and 17 Indians. Only 13 of the suspects, all Indian, were present in court, while the others were charged in absentia. Two of [...]
Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has denied reports that it has shut down operations due to lack of funding , with a spokesperson telling the Voice of America Thursday that a suspension of field research was previously scheduled. Though TRC spokeswoman Juliane Westphal acknowledged that lack of adequate funding is a problem, she said [...]
An appeals chamber at the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia Thursday sentenced a former Bosnian Serb Army general to life imprisonment for leading troops in attacks against civilians during the 1992-1994 siege of Sarajevo . Stanislav Galic was convicted in 2003 on five crimes against humanity and war crimes charges and was sentenced [...]
The UN Human Rights Council agreed Thursday to hold a special session to look into human rights abuses committed in the Darfur region of Sudan. The rights body, established earlier this year to replace the beleaguered Human Rights Commission, has so far focused mostly on the conflict in the Middle East, holding two special sessions [...]
Serb nationalist war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj , who has been on hunger strike for close to three weeks, has forbidden staff of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to force feed him, provide medical treatment or resuscitate him should it become necessary, the tribunal said Thursday. Seselj, who has been refusing [...]
The Entertainment Software Association , the trade group representing video game companies, won two more legal battles this week against laws aimed at restricting the sale of violent games to minors. On Tuesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the 2005 ruling that the "Safe Games Illinois Act" was unconstitutional . [...]
A Kentucky judge on Wednesday ordered the state to hold public hearings on its lethal injection protocol, which the state changed two years ago after two death row inmates challenged it as a form of cruel and unusual punishment. Though the Kentucky Supreme Court last week upheld lethal injection as the state's method of execution [...]
Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina must arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic , both wanted on war crimes charges, in order to be further integrated into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) , US officials said Wednesday. The US State Department comments came after a two-day NATO summit in Riga, [...]
Saddam Hussein on Thursday rejected forensic evidence of mass graves presented by US experts in his genocide trial for the "Anfal" campaigns against ethnic Kurds in northern Iraq between 1987 and 1988. Hussein said that pictures of the graves are "irrelevant to the Anfal case" and that he "refute all the testimonies submitted by the [...]
The European Union may face a legal challenge from the US over plans to extend the EU's greenhouse gas emission allowance trading program to cover all international flights to and from Europe. The European Union's Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) , based on European Commission Directive 2003/87/EC , began in October 2005 as the [...]
