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The governing party in Rwanda is proposing legislation to eliminate the death penalty for genocide in an effort to encourage other countries to extradite suspects in the 1994 genocide that left...

US Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Thursday that the confessions of three Rwandan rebels charged with killing two American tourists in Uganda were achieved...

Dutch prosecutors have charged a Rwandan immigrant arrested in Amsterdam with committing war crimes and torture in Rwanda, officials said Thursday. Specifically, prosecutors alleged that "Joseph M." ordered the killing of several Tutsis that were dragged out of an...

Lebanese Justice Minister Charles Rizk told Lebanese media Wednesday that Lebanon plans to send UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan a report outlining alleged war crimes committed by Israel in its conflict with Hezbollah that...

The joint UN-Cambodian court that will try former leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that decimated Cambodia's population in the "killing fields" of the late 1970s must move quickly or risk the deaths of more...

US Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and other leading Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday pushed for legislation authorizing military commissions for terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay during a committee hearing ...

An appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Friday increased the sentence for former Rwandan mayor Sylvestre Gacumbitsi to life in prison , revising his 30-year prison sentence ,...

JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), says that the favorable response by Senegal's president to an African Union call that former Chadian president Hissene Habre be...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Friday sentenced Joseph Serugendo to six years in prison for direct and public incitement to commit genocide and persecution as a crime against humanity under...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has criticized the UN-funded International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) as inefficient, and said that several ICTR employees should be testifying before the court for their...