Former Rwandan Minister of Youth and Sports Callixte Nzabonimana Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charges relating to Rwanda's 1994 genocide in his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Nzabonimana was arrested Monday in Tanzania and faces charges of conspiracy to commit genocide, genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitements [...]

A military jury in Hawaii convicted US Army Specialist Christopher P. Shore on Wednesday of aggravated assault on charges stemming from the June 23, 2007 killing of an unarmed Iraqi civilian near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk , but acquitted him on charges of third-degree murder. Shore could be sentenced to a maximum eight-year prison [...]

: "As members of the academic community and as students of the University of Belgrade School of Law we are deeply distressed by the Kosovo events. As you know, the Parliament of the Serbian Province of Kosovo run by UN Mission has illegally and unilaterally proclaimed independence. This decision was made against the international law [...]

UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband said Thursday that two US planes landed on the UK territory of Diego Garcia in 2002 to refuel during extraordinary rendition flights . Miliband apologized for previously denying that such stops had been made, saying that: Contrary to earlier explicit assurances that Diego Garcia [...]

The government of Chad is using the current state of emergency to clamp down on journalists and members of peaceful opposition parties, Amnesty International said Wednesday. Amnesty said that the government has arrested at least three opposition members and that some newspapers in Chad have ceased publishing due to potential censorship, with many journalists fleeing [...]

TIME magazine on Thursday asked the Supreme Court of Indonesia to reconsider its August 2007 decision awarding former Indonesian President Haji Mohammad Suharto $106 million in damages in Suharto's defamation suit against the publication. Suharto sued TIME over a 1999 article that said Suharto had hidden billions of dollars in foreign banks. The Supreme Court [...]

Former Russian Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison by Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court Wednesday, after being convicted on charges of fraud and abuse of office earlier in the week. He was convicted for his involvement in a corruption scheme which misappropriated $31 million in US aid designated to [...]

Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on Wednesday appealed the UK Home Office's approval of his extradition to the US on charges of supporting terrorism, arguing that UK courts should review the evidence against Abu Hamza before he is extradited. Abu Hamza, currently serving a seven-year sentence in the UK for urging his followers to kill [...]

Pakistani police in Karachi used tear gas against lawyers rallying for the restoration of ousted Pakistani superior court judges on Thursday, soon after now-dismissed Pakistani Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry addressed them by telephone from his official residence in Islamabad, where he is still under house arrest. Chaudhry spoke to lawyers at the [...]

The UN Security Council approved a resolution Wednesday authorizing Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint four additional judges to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . The Security Council unanimously approved the measure to enable the ICTY to try all defendants by the end of 2008. The resolution allows the president of the [...]