Mengistu Haile Mariam , the former Marxist president of Ethiopia , was sentenced to death Monday after the Ethiopian Supreme Court allowed Ethiopian prosecutors' appeal of his January 2007 life sentence on charges of genocide, homicide, illegal imprisonment, and illegal property seizure. Mengistu and 11 associates convicted in absentia in 2006 after a twelve-year trial. [...]

Luis Moreno-Ocampo chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , told Reuters Sunday that the ICC was investigating possible new war crimes committed by the Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in recent attacks on Uganda villages. The attacks follow the apparent collapse of a peace deal with the rebels last month. [...]

Arrest warrant for former Democratic Republic of Congo rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba in connection with war crimes and acts of genocide allegedly committed in the Central African Republic, International Criminal Court, unsealed May 23, 2008. Read the full text of the sealed arrest warrant and the decision to unseal the arrest warrant . Reported in [...]

National Iranian Oil Co. Director of International Affairs Hojatollah Ghanimi Fard derided US bill HR 6074 on Saturday, calling it "inexpert" and "a projection of US economic problems" in an interview with Shana , the news service of the Iranian Ministry of Petroleum . The proposed legislation passed the US House of Representatives by a [...]

Jean-Pierre Bemba , a former rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo , was arrested Saturday by Belgian authorities at his home outside of Brussels, after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a sealed warrant for his arrest on Friday. The ICC indicted Bemba for war crimes and crimes against humanity, which were allegedly [...]

Myanmar's military junta continued its controversial referendum on a draft constitution Saturday in areas hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis earlier this month that left some 130,000 people dead or missing according to the latest estimates. Voting took place in 47 townships, 40 in the vicinity of the former capital Yangon. The referendum was held in [...]

The leaders of Pakistan's governing Pakistan People's Party presented an anticipated 62-point constitutional amendment package at a news conference Saturday, saying it would be presented to the country's parliament by the end of June. The package – an attempt at a political compromise – anticipates restoring all the superior court judges removed by President Pervez [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that instead of excusing the Bush administration lawyers who enabled torture as a tool of American policy, we should press for their prosecution and celebrate the efforts of those legal advisors in the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the [...]

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey defended Bush administration attorneys who authored memoranda supporting the legality of coercive interrogating tactics – the so-called "torture memos" – in a commencement address to Boston College Law School graduates Friday. Emphasizing the legal complexity of the issues raised in the memos and criticizing the vilification of the authors in [...]

US Department of Defense prosecutors Friday charged Guantanamo Bay detainee Noor Uthman Muhammed with conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism. Muhammed, a Sudanese national, is accused of conspiring with various al Qaeda leaders and running a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan between 1996 and 2000. Captured in Pakistan in 2002, Muhammed is the sixteenth [...]