BBC News, 29 May 2009
Serb nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj is to go on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for contempt of court.
Mr Seselj is accused of disclosing the names and details of three protected witnesses at his war crimes trial.
He went on trial in 2007 for alleged crimes committed in [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Hague to try Seselj for contempt
Posted in News Updates, tagged ICTY, Milosevic, Serbian Radical Party, Seselj, Srebrenica on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ICJ Dismisses Belgian Suit to Force Senegal to try Chad’s Habre
Posted in News Updates on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mariette le Roux – May 28 09
THE HAGUE (AFP) — The UN’s highest court dismissed a Belgian bid Thursday to force Senegal to keep former Chad dictator Hissene Habre under surveillance until he is tried on charges of torturing and killing political opponents. “The risk of irreparable prejudice to the rights claimed by Belgium is [...]
Karadzic renews Holbrooke immunity claim
Posted in News Updates on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
May 26 09, ABC News
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic has filed what he claimed was evidence of an immunity deal struck with a top US diplomat and asked a war crimes court to dismiss the case against him.
In a motion before the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Karadzic claimed to [...]
ICC Launches New Legal Tools
Posted in News Updates on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
from the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre
The ICC launches knowledge-transfer platform: the new version of the Legal Tools
Late April 2009, the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched the new version of the Legal Tools, an online library on international criminal law and justice which will empower victims and others who seek a [...]
Shell on Trial: Oil giant in the dock over 1995 murder of activist who opposed environmental degradation of Niger Delta
Posted in News Updates on May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Daniel Howden, Africa Correspondent, The Independent
26 May 2009
Royal Dutch Shell will revisit one of the darkest periods of its history tomorrow as a potentially groundbreaking court case opens in New York.
The oil giant stands accused of complicity in the 1995 execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian environmental activist.
The world’s boardrooms are [...]
Motion Filed on the Karadzic-Holbrooke Cooperation Agreement – HT: Opinio Juris
Posted in News Updates on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Kevin Jon Heller, Opinio Juris, 26 May 2009
Disclosure: I (KJH) am one of Dr. Karadzic’s legal associates. This post is offered with his consent.
The defense team has just filed its definitive motion arguing that the Karadzic-Holbrooke cooperation agreement — in which Holbrooke promised Dr. Karadzic that he would not be prosecuted at the ICTY [...]
African Leaders Urged to Support ICC on Africa Day
Posted in News Updates on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By James Butty 25 May 2009 VOA News
Monday is ‘Africa Day’, a day set aside in 1963 to celebrate the founding of the then Organization of African Unity (OAU) which later became the African Union (AU) in 2002. According to a news release from the AU headquarters in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, the theme for [...]
Nigeria- 16 NGOs submit petition to ICC for Sarkin Yarkin-Bello
Posted in News Updates on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Punch, Nigeria, May 25 2009
Sixteen foreign-based civil society organisations have called for the prosecution of the Joint Task Force Commander, Gen. Sarkin Yarkin-Bello, over the killing of civilians in Gbaramatu, Delta State.
The groups, in a joint petition to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, The Netherlands also requested a probe into the role [...]
Harvard calls for Inquiry on possible Burma ICC referal
Posted in News Updates on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
James F. Smith May 21, 2009, Boston Globe
Burma is once more in the headlines, with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi again on trial, and the United Nations considering yet another condemnation of the military junta that rules Burma.
A Harvard Law School human rights group says it’s time to do more than just issue another [...]
Québec court finds Rwandan Désiré Munyaneza guilty
Posted in News Updates, tagged Desire Munyaneza, ICC, ICTR, Quebec, Rome Statute, Rwanda on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From InLawGrrls’ Naomi Norberg, 24 May 2009
In the first-ever application of Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (2000), the Cour supérieure of Québec found Désiré Munyaneza (left, credit) guilty of all 7 counts pending against him since 2005: genocide (intentional murder and serious bodily or mental harm), crimes against humanity (intentional murder and [...]
