Volume 5, Issue 18 – December 6, 2010
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Central African Republic & Uganda
- VOA News: War Crimes Trial for Congo’s Former VP Opens at The Hague
- VOA News: Bemba Supporters Say War Crimes Trial is Political
- BBC News: Barack Obama’s Plan to Defeat Ugandan LRA rebels
- Radio Netherlands Worldwide: Bemba’s Soldiers Raped and Killed in the Central African Republic
Darfur, Sudan
- ICC: Pre-Trial Chamber I Requests the Cooperation of the Central African Republic to Execute the Warrants of Arrest of Omar Al Bashir
- Reuters: Sudan’s Bashir Absent From C. African Rep. Event
- ICC: The ICC Hearing on the Confirmation of Charges Against Abdallah Banda and Saleh Jerbo is Scheduled to be Held on 8 December, in the Absence of the Suspects
Democratic Republic of the Congo (ICC)
- LubangaTrial.org: Public Testimony Resumes with Prosecution Investigator
- LubangaTrial.org: Defense Examines Reliability of Intermediary 316
- LubangaTrial.org: Defense Concludes Examination of Investigator; Child Soldier Testifies
- LubangaTrial.org: Witness Testifies in Closed Session on ‘Climate of Fear’
Kenya
AFRICA
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Hirondelle News Agency: Chamber Grants Amendments of Indictment for Rwandan Pastor
- Hirondelle News Agency: ICTR Asks Togo to Cooperate With Defence for Ngirabatware
- Hirondelle News Agency: Ex-MRND Leader’s Case Adjourned to January Next Year
- Hirondelle News Agency: Ngirabatware Says Allegations Against Him “False and Unthinkable”
- Hirondelle News Agency: Senegal Consents Hosting ICTR Convicts
- Hirondelle News Agency: Two ICTR Witnesses Ready to Testify Before French Judiciary
- Hirondelle News Agency: Prosecution Lists 50 Witnesses in Nizeyimana Trial
EUROPE
European Court of Human Rights
Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber
- Balkan Investigative Reporting Network: Neskovic and Ilic: Trial to Begin in December
- Balkan Investigative Reporting Network: Request for Extension of Custody of Miroslav Anic
- Balkan Investigative Reporting Network: Ivanovic: Hearing Postponed
- State Court of BiH: The Second Instance Verdict in the Case Against Miodrag Nikačević Dispatched
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Associated Press: UN Tribunal Holds Training Session for Serbia Legal Staff Handling War Crimes Cases
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Registry Challenges Seselj Judges
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Srebrenica Survivor Confronts Tolimir
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Witness Describes Serb Wartime Communications
Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia
- Bloomberg: Serbian Court Sentences Two for War Crimes During Bosnian War
- The Associated Press: Serbia to Retry Two Ex-Police for Slain Americans
- Reuters: Serbia asks US to Extradite Nazi Genocide Suspect
MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- Associated Press: Lawyers for Khmer Rouge Jailer Appeal Conviction
- The Phnom Penh Post: Court Confusion
- VOA Khmer: Challenges Await Newly Appointed Tribunal Prosecutor
Iraqi High Tribunal
- Associated Press: Iraq Court Gives Tariq Aziz New 10 Year Sentence
- Associated Press: Saddam Half Brothers Acquitted in Kurd Atrocities
Special Tribunal for Lebanon
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
United States
- Reuters: Pakistani Sues U.S. over Drone Aircraft Strike
- Reuters: U.S. Soldier Pleads Guilty to Firing on Unarmed Afghans
TOPICS
Terrorism
- Agence France-Presse: Belgium Charges Nine over Terrorist Links
- Associated Press of Pakistan: Margalla Police Foil Terrorist Attempt
- Agence France-Presse: Pakistan Arrests Taliban over Karachi Attack Plots
- Agence France-Presse: Pakistanis, Nigerian Held in Spain over Terror Links
- Guardian Co Uk: Kenyan Activist to be Tried over Uganda Bombings
Piracy
- Al Arabiya: Germany’s First Pirate Trial in 400 Years Open
- Department of Justice Press Release: Five Somalis Convicted of Piracy Against USS Nicholas
Universal Jurisdiction
- El Universal: AI: “Venezuela is a Safe Haven for Foreigners Who are Responsible for Genocide”
- The Guardian: War Crimes Lawyers Seek Arrest of Sri Lankan President in Oxford
- British Embassy Washington: Foreign Secretary Comments on Universal Jurisdiction
- Reuters: UK Moves to Restrict Arrests for War Crimes
REPORTS
NGO Reports
- Human Rights Watch: Israel: Soldiers’ Punishment for Using Boy as ‘Human Shield’ Inadequate
- Human Rights Watch: ICC: Keep Pledges to Strengthen International Justice
UN Reports
- AFP: Top UN Official to Meet Myanmar’s Suu Kyi
- The Associated Press: UN Official: Bosnia War Rapes Must be Prosecuted
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
COMMISSIONS
General
- Solomon Islands
- Togo
- Canada
COMMENTARY AND PERSPECTIVES
- The Seattle Times: Watershed Moment for International Justice at The Hague
- Radio Netherlands Worldwide: Impunity Prevails in Afghanistan
WORTH READING
- Alexander Zahar: Civilizing Civil War: Writing Morality as Law at the ICTY
- Megan Fairlie: The United States and the International Criminal Court Post-Bush: A Beautiful Courtship but an Unlikely Marriage
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