War Crimes Prosecution Watch is a bi-weekly e-newsletter that compiles official documents and articles from major news sources detailing and analyzing salient issues pertaining to the investigation and prosecution of war crimes throughout the world. To subscribe, please email warcrimeswatch@pilpg.org and type “subscribe” in the subject line.
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Contents
Central African Republic & Uganda
- Sudan Democracy First Group: Dismantling IDPs Camps in Darfur, a New Crime in a Saga of Calamity
- The Guardian: Sudanese Refugees Forcibly Deported from Jordan Fear Arrest and Torture
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- International Justice Monitor: Prosecution Argues It Has Presented Sufficient Evidence Against Ruto and Sang
- International Justice Monitor: Lawyer Says Prosecution Failed to Prove Ruto’s Involvement in Violence
- International Justice Monitor: Issue of Standard of Proof Dominates Final Day of “No Case to Answer” Hearings
- Wall Street Journal: A Terror State in Libya
- Reuters: Islamic State attack sets storage tanks ablaze at Libyan oil terminal
- Yahoo News: Heading home after Ebola, Ivorian refugees in Liberia bear scars of war
- Reuters UK: Ivory Coast ‘surprised’ by Burkina warrant against parliament head
- CTPost: UN downsizing Ivory Coast mission in sign of progress
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Yahoo! News: War Crimes Court Delays Hearing in Timbuktu Destruction Case
- Ventures Africa: What a Mali-Burkina Faso Anti-Terrorism Coalition Will Mean For West Africa
- AllAfrica.com: Algeria: 2016, ‘Decisive’ Year in Implementing Mali Peace Agreement
- Allafrica.com: UN Provides Emergency Funds to Tens of Thousands Displaced by Boko Haram Violence
- Allafrica.com: President of Republic of Chad Assures of Ratification of African Court protocol by Early Next Year
- International Business Times: Nigeria: Lawyers will file complaint with ICC on rights abuses against Biafrans on 29 January
- NDTV: Nigeria Must do More for Boko Haram Kidnap Victims: UN
Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Custody of Dragan Šarenac Terminated and Prohibiting Measures Ordered
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Indictment Confirmed in the Case v. Sakib Mahmuljin
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Indictment Confirmed in the Case v. Sekula Babić
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Indictment Confirmed in the Case v. Milorad Radaković et al.
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Balkan Transitional Justice: Bosniak Military Policeman Indicted for Prisoner Abuse
- Balkan Transitional Justice: Bosnian Policemen Face Trial for Detaining, Killing Serbs
- SBS: Dragan Vasiljkovic, Also Known as Daniel Snedden, Could Soon Face a War Crimes Trial after Croatian Prosecutors Issued an Indictment
- Balkan Transitional Justice: Serb Fighter to Face Trial for Shooting Bosniak
- Balkan Transitional Justice: Zagreb to Try 1990s Croatian Serb Leader
- Balkan Transitional Justice: Bosnian Serb Fighters Face Trial for Killing Family
Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- Stanford News: CStanford Experts Find Flaws in Khmer Rouge Tribunal Judgment
- The Star Online: Cambodian court told Khmer Rouge beheaded Muslim Women
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- CNN: Feds arrest 2 Middle East Refugees on Terror-Link Charges
- Newsy: Providing Material Support To ISIS: What Does That Mean?
- Houston Chronicle: Terror Charges Baffle Suspect’s Family: Suspect’s Wife, Parents Adrift After His Arrest
- Ars Technica: Twitter Provides Material Support to ISIS, Lawsuit Alleges: ISIS Uses Twitter to Post Guidelines and Promotional Videos Called “Mujatweets.”
- WBAL-Baltimore: Edgewood Man Indicted on Charges of Helping ISIS: Mohamed Elshinawy, 30, Faces 4 Counts
- WJLA-TV: U.S. Citizen From Pa. Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS
- The Local: Norway Court Sentences Isis Foreign Fighters
- The Indian Express: Singapore Deports 26 Bangladeshis for ISIS Links: Investigations Showed that they Supported the Armed Jihad Ideology of Terrorist Groups such as Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal
- Reuters UK: Bangladesh Seeks Death Penalty for Islamist Convicted of War Crimes
- The Daily Star: War Crimes Probe Agency Forms Committee, Yet to Decide on Formal Investigation
War Crimes Investigations in Burma
- Just Security: The Past is Never Far Away: Prosecutions for Human Rights Violations in Guatemala
- EJIL: Talk: Immunity of Heads of State on the Retreat
- Lawfare: Syria: Starvation as a Tactic of War
- Opinio Juris: Navy SEAL Who Supposedly Killed Bin Laden Under Investigation
- The Maritime Executive: Maritime Security: Moving Targets
- The Guardian: Britons Offering Protection Against Pirates Facing Five Years in Indian Jail
- The Maritime Executive: Indian Fisherman Dies in Pirate Attack
- Intercontinentalcry.org: Guatemala: First Trial for Systematic Violations of Indigenous Women
- Breitbart.com: UN Report Condemns Islamic State Use of ‘Sexual Violence as a Tactic of War’
- UNHCR: Report Warns Refugee Women on the Move in Europe Are at Risk of Sexual and Gender-based Violence
- The Atlantic: The ‘Staggering’ Civilian Toll of Iraq’s Fight Against ISIS
- UN News Centre: Libya: Senior UN Relief Official Condemns Attacks on Benghazi Power Plant
- Headlines and Global News: Yemen: Cluster Bomb Use By Saudi Coalition May Amount To War Crimes, Says U.N. Chief
- UN News Centre: Calling State of Besieged Syrian Town ‘Horrendous,’ UN Seeks Humanitarian Access
- Amnesty International: Iraq: Banished and Dispossessed: Forced Displacement and Deliberate Destruction in Northern Iraq
- Human Rights Watch: Occupation, Inc.: How Settlement Businesses Contribute to Israel’s Violations of Palestinian Rights
- Isaac Kfir: An Expansive Intelligence Community Regime as a Threat to U.S. National Security
- Megan Fairlie: The Hidden Costs of Strategic Communications for the International Criminal Court
- Julie Veroff: Reconciling the Crime of Aggression and Complementarity: Unaddressed Tensions and a Way Forward
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- The Georgia Straight: Vancouver Park Board Adopts 11 First Nations Strategies
- Reuters: Can South Africa Shake Off Its Racist Past?
- IPP Media: Zanzibar Needs S.Africa Style Truth Commission
