General Electric Co. (GE) on Tuesday agreed to a $23.5 million settlement after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint accusing GE of bribing Iraqi officials to receive contracts under the UN Oil-for-Food program . The SEC claimed that, between 2000 and 2003, four of GE’s subsidiaries gave millions of dollars worth [...]

A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced 14 neo-Nazis , including a group leader and several teenagers, to jail terms for committing hate crimes against ethnic minorities in the country. The group leader, 22-year-old Dmitry Orlov, was sentenced to life imprisonment for planning hate crimes as part of Russian National Unity (RNU), a fundamentalist organization promoting [...]

A UK court on Tuesday blocked the extradition of former Bosnian president Ejup Ganic to Serbia to stand trial for alleged war crimes. Ganic, who served as vice president during the outset of the 1992-1995 Bosnian civil war , is accused of ordering attacks in Sarajevo in violation of the Geneva Convention relative to the [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday denied early release to former Bosnian Serb Assembly leader and convicted war criminal Momcilo Krajisnik . Krajisnik was sentenced by the ICTY in 2006 to 27 years in a British prison for his role in the forced evacuation and displacement of several thousand Muslims [...]

The Serbian National Assembly on Monday voted 192-26 to pass a resolution that Serbia would never recognize Kosovo as an independent nation. The declaration comes a week after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence did not violate international law . The resolution was passed during the National Assembly’s [...]

Mounting emphasis on enforcement of existing immigration laws under the Obama administration has seen a sharp rise in deportations by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) , according to a Washington Post report Monday. The new emphasis on enforcement was outlined in a June memo from ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton . ICE expects to [...]

The Algerian prosecutor’s office said Monday that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Aziz Abdul Naji had been indicted, but did not specify the charges. The charges come after a period of detention by the Algerian government under a statute that allows for the detention of terror suspects for up to 12 days. Naji was released Sunday [...]

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of New Jersey’s civil unions law, holding that it must first be heard in the lower courts. The lawsuit was filed in March, arguing that the Civil Unions Law does not adhere to the 2006 ruling in Lewis v. Harris [...]

A spokesperson for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) confirmed Tuesday that former Khmer Rouge official Kaing Guek Eav , also known as “Duch,” intends to appeal his conviction. Kaing’s lawyer informed the court of the appeal shortly after Monday’s verdict, without stating the grounds for the appeal. The ECCC found Kaing [...]

UK rights group Global Witness (GW) on Monday filed suit against the UK government for failing to report several UK companies to the UN Sanctions Committee for allegedly trading “conflict minerals” from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) . The group argues that the UK government is in violation of UN resolutions 1857 and 1896 [...]