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Dutch Blamed for Srebrenica Deaths

6 July 2011 by Administrator

Yesterday a court in the Netherlands ruled that the Dutch state was responsible for the deaths of three Bosniaks killed during the Srebrenica massacres. The court ordered the government to pay compensation to the dead men's relatives.

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Tagged Bosnia

 

9 Bedford Row International Annual Conference

6 July 2011 by Steven Kay

The 9 Bedford Row International Annual Conference is on Saturday 1st October 2011 in London.
Steven Kay QC, John Cammegh, Gillian Higgins and Toby Cadman will be reviewing some of the cases and situations that the 9BRi international criminal law team have dealt with in the last year at the ICC, ICTY, STL and Bangladesh Courts.

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International Crime Conference, 1 October 2011 - Sergei Magnitsky

6 July 2011 by Steven Kay

The tragic death of Sergei Magnitsky who was falsely accused by Russian Police and held in custody by Russian Judges for no good reason as being a suspect in a crime the Police had in fact committed in a conspiracy with the Russian Tax authorities, is to be covered in one of the sessions at the 9 Bedford Row International Conference on 1 October 2011. The police who committed the crime of which Magnitsky complained were appointed to investigate the case against them!

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Tagged Russia

 

Interrogations in 'Safe Home'

4 July 2011 by Administrator

By now, we all must have heard about the War Crime Tribunal in Bangladesh that is formed to put war criminals of 1971 into trial. The whole nation had been waiting for the trial to begin for almost 40 years and to everyone’s comfort, current Awami League led Government initiated the process. The comfort soon turned out be a disgust as the whole nation experienced various national and international expatriate and war crime specialist started to question the process of the trial. The latest addition to the debate was the ‘Safe Home’ issue, which, according to the lawyer of the accused is intended to torture the accused.

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Tagged Bangladesh

 

Cambodia: Bringing the Surviving Leaders of the Khmer Rouge to Justice

1 July 2011 by Administrator

Four of the most senior Khmer Rouge leaders deemed ‘most responsible’ for the deaths of 1.7 million people have gone on trial at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.

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Electing the ICC’s Next Prosecutor: The Criteria

1 July 2011 by Administrator

The term of the ICC’s first Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, is slowly, albeit dramatically, drawing to a close. In December 2011 the members of ICC’s Assembly of State Parties will convene to choose the Court’s next Prosecutor. He or she will officially replace Moreno-Ocampo in June 2012. Every member-state of the Court will have one vote in deciding the ICC’s second prosecutor. In early February, the ICC set up a search committee to identify some potential candidates.

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Tagged ICC

 

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