War Crimes Prosecution Watch is prepared by the International Justice Practice of the Public International Law & Policy Group and the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center of Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Central African Republic & Uganda
- The Daily Monitor: War Crimes Division to Try LRA Rebel Chief
- Open Society Justice Initiative: Witness Says MLC First Went to Bangui in 2001
- Open Society Justice Initiative: Prosecution’s ‘Witness 63’ Completes Testifying Against Bemba
- Open Society Justice Initiative: Only Bemba’s Soldiers Were Present in Pillaged Town
- Open Society Justice Initiative: Witness Says Bemba’s Men Looted Central African Government Property
- Open Society Justice Initiative: Accounts of Pillaging Dominate Bemba Trial this Week
- Open Society Justice Initiative: Bemba Trial Stalls as Witness is Taken Ill
- Open Society Justice Initiative: Victim’s Lawyer Questions Witness – Mainly in Closed Session
- Open Society Justice Initiative: Bozizé Rebels Were First to Pillage Central African Government Property
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- KatangaTrial.org: Witness Claims Bogoro Attackers Included Women, Acted Like Civilians
- Uganda Coalition on the International Criminal Court: Trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo: The Presentation of Evidence Stage is Closed
- KatangaTrial.org: Q&A with Eric MacDonald, Senior Trial Lawyer for the ICC: Part I
- Hirondelle News Agency: Germain Katanga Had No Problems with Hemas
- Hirondelle News Agency: Hearing Postponed to August 17 in Mbarushimana’s Case
- Irish Times: Kenyan Government Fails to Stop Post-Poll Violence Inquiry
- The Daily Nation: Kenya Pledges Support for Chaos Probe
- Reuters Africa: Kenya to Appeal Refusal to Halt Violence Trials
- AllAfrica.com: State Shielding Suspects Says ICC
- Reuters: French Ex-Minister in Libya, Would Defend Gaddafi
- AFP: French Lawyers Plan Libya Lawsuit Against Sarkozy
AFRICA
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Hirondelle News Agency: Special Deposition Proceedings Commence in the Kabuga Case
- Hirondelle News Agency: Witness Alleges Hutu and Tutsi Students Manned Roadblocks
- Hirondelle News Agency: British Foreign Minister Visits ICTR
- The New Times: ICTR Appoints Judges to the Appeals Chamber
- News Day: ICC Acts on Zim-Based Genocide Suspect
- Hirondelle News Agency: Ex-Rwandan Defence Minister Alleges Nizeyimana had no Position at ESO
- Hirondelle News Agency: ICTR to Deliver Longest Case Judgement June 24
- Reuters: Top Rwanda Genocide Suspect Seized in Congo: UN Court
- Hirondelle News Agency: ICTR Refuses to Impose Restrictions to General Ndindiliyimana’s Liberty
- Hirondelle News Agency: Prosecution Lines 44 Witnesses Against Kabuga
- Hirondelle News Agency: ICTR Protected Witnesses to Testify Under Their Identities in Canada
EUROPE
European Court of Human Rights
Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber
- The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Pronouncement of a Decision Regarding the Plea Agreement in the Miroslav Anic Case
- The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Enes Handzic sentenced to eight years of imprisonment
- The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Pronouncement of the Verdict in the Ljubo Tomic et al. case
- The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Pronouncement of the Verdict in the Miroslav Anic Case
- The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ljubo Tomic and Krsto Josic Acquitted of Charges
- The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Plea agreement hearing in the Novica Tripkovic case
- The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: The First Instance Verdict in the Marko Adamovic et al. Case Pronounced
- The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Plea Agreement Hearing in the Osman Šego Case
- The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Miroslav Anic Sentenced to 15 Years’ Imprisonment
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Top War Crimes Suspect Mladic Faces Extradition
- Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Custody for Ex-General Pending Extradition Process
- Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Mladic Unlikely to Face Trial with Karadzic
- Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Court Date Set as Mladic Arrives in Hague
MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- VOA Khmer: Tribunal Prosecutor to Fight Retraction Order
- Phnom Penh Post: Lawyers Want 003 Case File
- VOA Khmer: Prosecutor Files Appeal Against Judges’ ‘Censure’
- Agence France-Presse: Former Lebanese General Appeals Tribunal Order
- NOW Lebanon: STL President Sets Dates for Submissions in Sayyed’s Appeal
- iloubnan.info: Law Makers Meet at Important World Conference, Members of STL to Brief Them over the Indictment
- The Daily Star: STL Chief Urges an End to Wrangling in Hariri Case
- The Daily Star: STL Defense in Absentia Will Mean Uncharted Waters
- iloubnan.info: Representatives of the STL Take Part in Lebanon’s First International Criminal Justice Conference
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
TOPICS
- The Sydney Morning Herald: Bashir Denies Funding Terror Training
- The Age: Bali Bomber Could be Tried in Australia
REPORTS
- Reuters: South Sudanese Likely Attacked Peacekeepers: U.N.
- Asia-Pacific News: UN Denies Interfering in Cambodian War Crimes Tribunal Cases
- UN News Service: Security Council Welcomes Arrest of Fugitives Sought for Crimes in the Balkans, Rwanda
- Reuters: U.N. Pressures Sri Lanka Over Alleged War Atrocities
- ABC News:Both Sides Committed War Crimes in Libya: UN
COMMENTARY AND PERSPECTIVES
- AsianCorrespondent.com: Khmer Rouge Senior Leaders and/or Those Who Were Most Responsible
- Jurist: War Powers and Executive Authority in the Libya Conflict
- Enough Project: Former Prosecutors, State Department War Crimes Officials Affirm Satellite Sentinel Project Findings of Apparent War Crimes in Abyei
- abc.net.au: Mladic Cooperative as He Begins Detention in The Hague
- The Australian: Selective Justice Will Lack Legitimacy
- Foreign Policy: The Least Wanted Most Wanted Man: The Inside Story of How the United States and NATO Let War Criminal Ratko Mladic Evade Justice for 16 Years – and Why It Matters
- Sierra Express Media: Two Sierra Leoneans Vying for ICC Prosecutor Job
WORTH READING
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