The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced the initiation of removal proceedings against a Michigan man accused of killing Jews while serving as a member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (UAP) in...
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The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) announced Monday that William Smith of Australia has been appointed acting international co-prosecutor to replace Canadian Robert Petit when his resignation takes...
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights commemorated the International Day of the Disappeared Monday, calling on states to eliminate enforced disappearances and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday began genocide proceedings against a former businessman man charged with ordering a bulldozer to knock down a church housing refugees and...
North Korea called on the newly-elected Japanese government Monday to apologize for its use of Asian "comfort women" by the Japanese Army in World War II. In an editorial published...
The US has released more than 5,000 Iraqi prisoners and transferred more than 1,000 more to Iraqi control in 2009, according to a Sunday statement by the US-led Multinational Force in Iraq . This year's releases...
Former US vice president Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama of backtracking on his promise to not prosecute Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents for alleged abuses of suspected terrorist detainees under the...
Vietnamese Vice Minister of Public Security Le The Tiem said Monday that President Nguyen Minh Triet will grant amnesty to more than 5,000 prisoners on Wednesday in honor of National Day. Catholic priest Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly [AI...
Former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted on three charges of corruption and fraud on Sunday after a lengthy period of accusations following his resignation from government a year ago. He is the...
Iranian judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani has removed controversial Tehran Prosecutor General Saeed Mortazavi from office, according to state media reports Saturday. The reason for the dismissal is as yet unclear. Mortazavi was appointed as...
