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Sudan plans to create domestic courts for war crimes trials
Sudan plans to create its own internationally-monitored courts to try war crimes suspects from the country's Darfur region , League of Arab States (LAS) official Hisham Yussef said on Tuesday. The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Net (More) |
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Arab League plans response to possible al-Bashir arrest warrant
The head of the League of Arab States on Sunday presented a plan to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [BBC profile, JURIST news archive] recommending how he should react to an application for an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (More) |
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Arab League condemns ICC prosecutor for seeking arrest of Sudan president
The Arab League issued a resolution on Saturday criticizing International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo for seeking the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [BBC profile, JURIST news archive] for genocide, crimes (More) |
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ICC chief prosecutor considering additional case against Darfur rebels
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Thursday that he will widen his investigation into war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region to include attacks by rebel groups against African Union (AU) peacekeeping forc (More) |
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ICC effort to arrest Sudan president criticized by international organizations
The Arab League , African Union (AU) and others have criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor's Monday application for an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [BBC profile, JURIST news archive]. Al-Ba (More) |
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The US and the International Criminal Court Then and Now
JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, reflects on the tenth anniversary of the conclusion of negotiations on the Rome Statute establishing (More) |
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Indicting Sudan's President for War Crimes: Could George Bush be Next?
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that even though the recent indictment of sitting Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes (More) |
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ICC prosecutor applies for warrant to arrest Sudan president
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo applied for an arrest warrant [application, PDF; ICC press release] Monday for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [BBC profile, JURIST news archive] on charges of genocide, crime (More) |
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Sudan seeks Arab League talks over possible ICC warrant to arrest president
Sudan has asked the Arab League to convene emergency crisis talks concerning a possible International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website; JURIST news archive] arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir . The Arab League Secretary-Gene (More) |
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ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Sudanese president: US State Department
International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website; JURIST news archive] chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will seek a warrant to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir , according to statements [press briefing; video] made Friday by US State (More) |
Watergate burglars arrested for DNC break-in
On June 17, 1972, James McCord, security director of President Richard Nixon's re-election committee, and four Cuban-Americans are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC.
Learn more about the Watergate scandal.
