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Contents
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Central African Republic & UgandaDarfur, Sudan
- The Times of India: ICC Wants India to Arrest Sudan President while in Delhi
- New Vision: Sudan Stops Opposition Figures from Travelling Abroad
- Independent: UN Peacekeeping Force turns Blind Eye to Mass Rape in Darfur, Victims Say
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- ICC-CPI: Trust Fund for Victims Submits Draft Implementation Plan for Collective Reparations to Victims in the Lubanga Case
- International Justice Monitor: Witnesses Testify Mostly in Private Sessions in Bemba Witness Tampering Trial
- Capital News: ICC Pushes Hearings on Ruto, Sang Case to January 2016
- AllAfrica: Sang Cites Trump’s Speech in ICC Case
- Yahoo News: IS responsible for most Libya killings: ICC prosecutor
- UN News Centre: Political progress in Libya ‘carries promise’ of ending impunity for atrocity crimes – ICC Prosecutor
- The Telegraph: Libya four years on from Colonel Gaddafi’s death
- Reuters: Heavy fighting in Libya’s Benghazi, 16 killed: official
- Middle East Eye: Libya rendition case has put Britain in the dock over torture
EUROPE
Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Indictment Confirmed in the Case v. Zijad Nanić et al.
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Indictment Confirmed in the Case v. Marijan Brnjić
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Petar Kovačević Sentenced to 9 years in Prison
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Saša Savinović Ordered into Custody
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Damir Lipovac Ordered into Custody
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Radivoje Soldo Sentenced to 5 years in Prison
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ilija Jurić Acquitted of Charges
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Senad Pekić Ordered into Custody
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Mladic Witness Disputes Evidence of Bosnian Serb Sniper Attacks
- Expatica: Bosnian Muslim War Crimes Defendant Demands Case Dropped
Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia
- Balkan Transitional Justice: Bosnian Serb Soldier Convicted of Rape and Murder
- Balkan Transitional Justice: Bosnian Fighter Jailing for Killing Prisoner of War
- Balkan Transitional Justice: Bosnian Serb Soldier Jailed for Raping Captive
- Balkan Transitional Justice: Bosnian Croat Ex-Commander Arrested for War Crimes
- B92: Two Serbs Detained in Bosnia on War Crimes Charges
- Balkan Transitional Justice: Bosnian Croat Fighter Acquitted of Wartime Sexual Abuse
MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- The Guardian: Amnesty Damns Syrian Regime Over Thousands of ‘Enforced Disappearances’
- Military.com: Russian Airstrikes Take Toll among Syrian Civilians
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Star Tribune: Trial for alleged ISIL recruits pushed to May: Lawyers given more time in wake of new charges.
- The Malaysian Insider: Groom-to-be jailed for possession of phone with ISIS material
- BBC News: Mohammed Abdal Miah jailed for urging others to join Isis
- BBC News: Blackburn Student Convicted Of Terrorism Offences
- Israel National News: ISIS-linked attack on major French naval base thwarted
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
- Business Insider: The US Is Worried That American Cash is Flowing to ISIS and Iran From the Fed
- U.S. News & World Report: U.S. Deploys 6 F-15 Fighter Jets to Turkish Air Base
- South Florida Caribbean News: St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ PM Says Reparations is a Matter of Justice
- The Wall Street Journal: Federal Judge Rules Against NSA Phone Surveillance Program
- The Wall Street Journal: International Body Calls on U.S. to Close Guantanamo Bay
- DailyMail.com: The Confederate ‘Hero’ Who Invented the Concentration Camp: Georgia Town’s Honor to One of America’s Worst Civil War Criminals
TOPICS
- International Chamber of Commerce: Arrests and Prosecutions – A Positive Response to Piracy
- National Mirror: Strengthening Nigeria’s Anti-Piracy War Through Enabling Legal Framework
- The Maritime Executive: 120 Somali Nationals to Plead Guilty to Piracy
- Star Africa: Security Council Renews Measures to Combat Piracy, Armed Robbery off Somali Coast, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2446 (2015)
- UN News Centre: Somalia: UN Training Course Spotlights Toll-free Hotline to Help Tackle Gender-Based Violence
- International Business Times: Isis ‘Distributes Women’ as Wives to Maimed Fighters as ‘Spoils of War’
- Thomson Reuters Foundation: UN Peacekeepers Face New Sex Allegations in Central African Republic
- BBC News: Australia Convicts Two over Female Genital Mutilation
REPORTS
- Deutsche Welle: Rebels Free UN Hostages In South Sudan
- UN News Centre: Top UN Humanitarian Official in Libya Calls for Immediate Release of Abducted Aid Workers
- The Japan Times: U.N. Panel Head Gears Up for Tough Syria Chemical Attack Probe
- Reuters UK: U.N., ICC Join Chorus of Alarm Over Burundi Crackdown
WORTH READING
- Mark Kersten: Tired of Waiting, Darfur Victims Withdraw from ICC Case Against Bashir
- Shane Darcy: Is the Execution of Collaborators a War Crime under the Rome Statute? (Part I)
- Shane Darcy: Is the Execution of Collaborators a War Crime under the Rome Statute? (Part II)
- Alex Whiting: The Mavi Marmara Appeal: The ICC Prosecutor Wins by Losing
- David Bosco: How the ICC Could Alter the Security Council’s Palestine Role
- Gabor Rona: The Start, End, and Territorial Scope of Armed Conflict
