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Bosnia war crimes court sentences Serb police for killing Muslim civilians
The war crimes court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Tuesday convicted four former Bosnian Serb policemen of killing at least 150 civilians during the 1992-1995 Bosnian civil war . The court sentenced Dusan Jankovic to 27 years, Zoran Babic and (More) |
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Kosovo PM named in Council of Europe organ trafficking report
Kosovar Prime Minister Hasham Thaci was named Tuesday in a draft report [text; press release] by Council of Europe member Dick Marty as the "boss" of an illegal criminal enterprise that trafficked human organs and drugs during the 1998-1999 Kosov (More) |
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Serbia court acquits 10 accused of aiding war crimes suspect Mladic
The First Municipal Court in Belgrade on Friday acquitted 10 men suspected of helping former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic [case materials; JURIST news archive] evade arrest. Mladic is one of two high-level targets still at large under (More) |
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Top Croatia official arrested for war crimes
Croatian police on Friday arrested a former senior member of the nation's ruling party for alleged war crimes he committed against Serbian civilians in 1991 during the Serbo-Croatian war . The arrest of former interior ministry official Tomislav Mer (More) |
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Croatia ex-PM arrested on suspicion of corruption, fraud
Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader was arrested in Austria on Friday pursuant to an arrest warrant issued by Croatia. Sanader, who was elected to parliament after he stepped down from the prime minister position in 2009, stands accused of co (More) |
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ICTY reduces sentence for officer convicted of Vukovar killings
The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday vacated the conviction [judgment summary, PDF; press release] of Veselin Sljivancanin [BBC profile; ICTY materials] for his role in killing 194 (More) |
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Bosnia authorities arrest Srebrenica war crimes suspect
A suspected Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war criminal was arrested Monday in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the end of 1992-95 Bosnian civil war . The Prosecutors Office for BiH announced that Dragan Crnogorac was arrested in (More) |
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ICTR prosecutor refers 3 cases to Rwanda for trial
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Hassan Bubacar Jallow filed new applications Thursday for the referral of three cases for trial in Rwanda. The first was Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi , a former Rwandan pastor who (More) |
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ICTY delays Karadzic trial for one month
The Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday suspended the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic [case materials; JURIST news archive] for a month. The postponement allows Ka (More) |
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Croatia court sentences 6 men for 2008 death of top journalist
The County Court of Zagreb on Wednesday sentenced six men for the murder of top Croatian journalist, Ivo Pukanic, who was killed in a car bombing in 2008. The court held that the actions committed by the convicted men constituted organized crime, w (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.
