The conviction of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday was met with widespread approval from the current Peruvian government and human rights organizations. Peruvian Prime Minister Yehuda Simon [official website, in...
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The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Tuesday that US courts cannot prevent the government from transferring detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to foreign countries on the grounds that...
The government of Bangladesh said Tuesday it is working with the UN to organize war crimes prosecutions for alleged violations stemming from the country's 1971 War of Independence against Pakistan [JURIST...
Justice Ian MacDonnell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) , Canada's federal police force and the country's largest law enforcement entity, can...
A federal appeals court in Baghdad on Tuesday reduced the sentence for the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoe at former US president George W. Bush from three years to one year. Lawyers for Muntadar...
The Council of the District of Columbia voted Tuesday to recognize same-sex marriages performed outside of Washington, DC. The bill, proposed by DC Councilman Phil Mendelson , was approved by a 12-0 vote....
The Court of Appeal of Fiji on Tuesday began considering a challenge to the legitimacy of the sitting government brought by ousted Fijian prime minister Laisenia Qarase . Qarase appeals from a November High Court...
A judge from the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday granted a government motion to set aside the conviction of former senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) on corruption charges....
The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday dismissed the appeal of former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic , in...
Deputy International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has called on world leaders to end all support for Sudanese president and war crimes suspect Omar al-Bashir , according to a Monday report...
