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JURIST Guest Columnist Roland Amoussouga, Spokesperson and Senior Legal Adviser at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), says that the recent United Nations agreement with Rwanda over the detention in Rwanda of convicted ICTR prisoners is simply an agreement...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday denounced a Colombian attack on a Ecuadorian camp belonging to the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group as a "war crime." Chavez joined...

International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Tuesday that he "has not and will not" meet with any member of Uganda's Lord Resistance Army (LRA) . The statement came...

Arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) "remain in effect and have to be executed" despite requests from Uganda that they...

Ana Aguilar García : "The judicial reform foresees two sets of important provisions. One related with the elimination of the inquisitorial system, setting forth the adversarial system for the criminal proceedings, and the...

Spain's National Court on Friday said that it will drop its prosecution of former Argentine naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo and extradite him back to his home country where he will stand trial for...

One in every 100 US adults is currently in prison, according to a report released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States (PCS) . The report found that males were 17 times more...

Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba urged the US Friday to adopt preventive measures to stop further crimes by American troops in Japan. The warning comes after a US Marine was arrested last week for allegedly...

Former Rwandan Minister of Youth and Sports Callixte Nzabonimana Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charges relating to Rwanda's 1994 genocide in his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)...

The resignation of Cuban President Fidel Castro could prompt lawsuits against him in Spanish courts for crimes against humanity, Spanish human rights lawyers indicated on Tuesday. In December, the Spanish Audiencia Nacional dismissed a claim against...