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Key ICTR witnesses threatening to boycott genocide trials after acquittals: report
Groups representing key witnesses appearing before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website; JURIST news archive] told Reuters Saturday that they may no longer participate in court trials following the acquittal of two (More) |
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ICTY appoints UK lawyer to represent Karadzic
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday appointed British lawyer Richard Harvey to represent Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic [case materials; JURIST news archive] if he continues to boycott his trial whe (More) |
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Rwanda rebel leaders arrested in Germany
Rwandan rebel leader Ignace Murwanashyaka and deputy Straton Musoni were arrested in Germany on Tuesday on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges. Murwanashyaka is the leader of the predominantly Hutu Democratic Forces for the Liberation o (More) |
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ICTR acquits Rwandan priest accused of genocide
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website; JURIST news archive] Tuesday acquitted Catholic priest Hormisdas Nsengimana [case materials; Trial Watch profile] and ordered his immediate release. Nsengimma had been indicte (More) |
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Rwanda genocide tribunal overturns conviction of ex-president's brother-in-law
The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday overturned [judgment, PDF; press release] the genocide conviction and 20-year prison sentence for Protais Zigiranyirazo [case materials; Trial Watch profile], ru (More) |
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Simple Justice: Time for the US to Support the ICC
JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse College of Law and Guest Columnist Leila Sadat of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law say that after the failure of American legislative and diplomatic initiatives opposing the Inter (More) |
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Canada prosecutors charge second Rwanda genocide suspect under war crimes act
Canadian prosecutors announced Saturday that a Rwandan genocide suspect has been charged under Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act . Jacques Mungwarere, arrested [Ottawa Citizen report] Friday by the Royal Canadian Mounted Polic (More) |
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Former Rwanda official sentenced to 8 years for complicity in genocide
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday sentenced former director of the Rwanda tea industry Michel Bagaragaza [case materials; Trial Watch profile] to eight years in prison on charges of complicity in genocide . As direc (More) |
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Canada court sentences Rwanda war criminal to life imprisonment
The Superior Court of Quebec on Thursday sentenced Rwandan Hutu Desire Munyaneza to life imprisonment with eligibility for parole after 25 years for war crimes committed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Munyaneza was convicted in May on seven c (More) |
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PITTSBURGH: Former Pakistan President Musharraf Explains "The World As I See It"
Pakistani officials announced last week that murder charges had been filed earlier this month against the nation's former president, Pervez Musharraf, who is now on a speaking tour in the US and the UK. Andrew Gilmore, Pitt Law '10, attended (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.
