Rwandan President Paul Kagame has criticized the UN-funded International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) as inefficient, and said that several ICTR employees should be testifying before the court for their involvement in the 1994 genocide the court was established to investigate. In a press conference Wednesday, Kagame noted that the ICTR has convicted fewer than [...]

AP is reporting that US Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona has been sentenced to 90 days hard labor without confinement and a reduction in rank for abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison . Cardona was convicted Thursday of dereliction of duty and aggravated assault in connection with the use of unmuzzled dogs when questioning [...]

Russian Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov unexpectedly quit Friday after Russian President Vladimir Putin recommended to the Russian upper house – the Federation Council – that Ustinov be asked to step down from office. The upper house approved Ustinov's removal by a vote of 140-0, with two abstentions. According to the speaker of the Federation Council, Sergei [...]

Court-martial proceedings for 15 US soldiers implicated in the abuse of detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, including the beating deaths of two Afghanis , ended in Fort Bliss, Texas on Thursday with only one conviction, resulting in a demotion in rank and three months in prison for former Pfc. Willie V. Brand. Three [...]

Canada's Federal Court Thursday stayed the deportation to China of Lai Changxing , the alleged leader of a Xiamen-based network suspected of smuggling up to $10 billion of goods such as cigarettes, automobiles, heating and cooking oil, textiles, chemicals and other raw materials under the protection of corrupt Chinese government officials. Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson stayed [...]

New Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Friday that he will ask the United States to turn over its files pertaining to the investigation into the alleged killing of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha by US Marines last November, after the Iraqi cabinet on Thursday decided to launch its own probe into the Haditha [...]

US military prosecutors plan to file conspiracy and murder charges against seven enlisted Marines and one Navy corpsman for the alleged murder of an Iraqi civilian and subsequent cover-up on April 26 in Hamandiya, according to a defense lawyer for one of the men involved. US commanders in Iraq ordered the Naval Criminal Investigative Service [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that the killings of Iraqi civilians at Haditha, like the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, illustrate critical aspects [...]

Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms, Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, Hans Blix, Chairman, June 1, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A study by the independent Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission , headed by former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix , has called for a total ban on the possession and use of nuclear weapons . At a UN press conference, Blix said the report, titled “Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological [...]