Alan Reinach : "When we were children, we used to have play fights. "I dare you," one would say, only to hear in response, "I double dare you!" Sadly, the culture wars have degenerated into a grown up version of such foolishness. The latest example is in South Carolina, where a Federal Court recently struck [...]

The German Federal Constitutional Court announced Tuesday that it upheld legislation prohibiting public support and justification of the Nazi regime. The ruling, made earlier this month, means that neo-Nazis are forbidden from assembling for the purposes of of approving, glorifying or justifying the Nazi regime. Violations are punishable by up to three years in prison. [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on Tuesday that more than 14,700 Americans have reported to the IRS previously hidden overseas bank accounts in response to a temporary forgiveness program , allowing delinquent taxpayers to avoid criminal prosecution for tax evasion by paying all overdue taxes and [...]

A US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit panel affirmed the conviction of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart on Tuesday, and ordered her to begin her prison sentence. Stewart, along with Mohammed Yousry and Ahmed Abdel Satter, were convicted of various crimes based on association with convicted terrorist Omar Abdel-Rahman. As part of his [...]

Rwandan rebel leader Ignace Murwanashyaka and deputy Straton Musoni were arrested in Germany on Tuesday on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges. Murwanashyaka is the leader of the predominantly Hutu Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) . The two are accused of wielding “significant influence” over the militia’s operations in the Democratic [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Tuesday acquitted Catholic priest Hormisdas Nsengimana and ordered his immediate release. Nsengimma had been indicted on four counts of collaborating and ordering students to collaborate with the marauding Rwandan interahamwe , as well as personally killing Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . A three-judge ICTR panel that [...]

US State Department spokesman Ian Kelley confirmed Monday that the US will send an observer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the first time this year. The announcement was made earlier in the day by US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp , who said the country was still concerned about [...]

A 90-year-old German man has been charged with 58 counts of murder stemming from his involvement with the Nazi party during World War II. The man, who has not been named, was a member of an SS tank regiment and allegedly shot 57 Jews in a ditch outside of Duisburg, Austria, as part of a [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for the third time vacated a trial court's sentence of former HealthSouth executive Ken Livesay for being too lenient Monday, remanding the case to the lower court with a demand that Livesay be sentenced to time in jail. Livesay pleaded guilty in 2004 to charges that [...]

The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday overturned the genocide conviction and 20-year prison sentence for Protais Zigiranyirazo , ruling that the the prosecution had lacked sufficient evidence to convict him. Zigiranyirazo, the brother-in-law of former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, was found guilty last year of genocide and extermination [...]