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UN dismisses ICTY staff member's appeal of contempt conviction
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday upheld [judgment, PDF; press release] the contempt conviction of former spokesperson Florence Hartmann [BBC profile; ICTY materials, PDF]. A spec (More) |
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Serbia captures final ICTY fugitive Goran Hadzic
Serbian authorities on Wednesday arrested Goran Hadzic , the last fugitive of the original 161 sought for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Serbian President Boris Tadic announced the arrest throu (More) |
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The Problem of Legitimacy in International Criminal Justice
JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the ICC must keep in mind the example of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon as it goes forward with prosecutions referred by the UN Security Council i (More) |
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ICTY defendant Seselj pleads not guilty to third set of contempt charges
Former Serb nationalist politician and war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj [case materials; JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to a third set of contempt charges (More) |
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Dutch appeals court holds state liable for deaths of 3 Bosniaks at Srebrenica
The Hague Appeals Court Tuesday ruled [judgment, in Dutch; press release, in Dutch] that the Netherlands is liable for the death of three Bosniak men during the Srebrenica massacre [BBC timeline; JURIST news archive] forcing it to compensate the me (More) |
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Mladic removed from ICTY courtroom, not guilty plea entered for him
Ratko Mladic [ICTY backgrounder, PDF; JURIST news archive] made his second appearance Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , but was removed from the courtroom for disrupting the proceedings. Throughout the (More) |
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EU gives final approval to Croatia membership
The European Council on Friday agreed to grant Croatia EU membership following six years of accession negotiations. The decision calls for negotiations to close by the end of the month and the accession treaty to be signed by year's end, allowin (More) |
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Croatia ex-PM drops extradition appeal, faces corruption charges
Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader on Monday dropped his appeal of a Zagreb extradition request, thereby compelling him to face corruption charges in Croatia. Sanader's lawyers said that the former prime minister dropped the appeal after med (More) |
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Croatia to join European Union in 2013
The European Commission (EC) officially recommended Croatia for accession to the European Union (EU) and announced on Friday that Croatia will become the 28th member of the EU on July 1, 2013. EC President Jose Barroso stated that Croatia has ma (More) |
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Croatia indicts former interior minister for war crimes
Croatian authorities on Thursday charged former military commander and senior interior minister Tomislav Mercep for war crimes committed against Serbians during the 1990s conflict in the Balkans. The Municipal Court in Zagreb charged that he was a (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
