Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj appeared before the Hague tribunal this week in the third contempt case brought against him.
He entered a not guilty plea and demanded that judges let him address the Serbian public via a video link from his detention unit, ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections in the country on May 6. Read more... |
On 17 April 2012 more than 1,200 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails began a hunger strike to protest against what they say is the harsh and degrading treatment received by detainees in Israel. Read more... |
The Salzburg Law School on International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law (SLS) welcomes applications for its Fourteenth Summer Session, Sunday 5 to Friday 17 August 2012, under the draft title:
“Enforcing International Criminal LawThrough the Complementarity Regime of the Rome Statute! Demand and Reality†Read more... |
On 2 March 2012 the Bangladesh Law Minister Shafique Ahmed announced the need for a second war crimes tribunal to be established so “War criminals from other parts of the country will be brought to justiceâ€Â. Read more... |
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Libyan commander and former dissident, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, has commenced legal proceedings against former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw alleging complicity in torture and misfeasance in public office. Read more... |
On Wednesday 4 April, at 7pm, London’s Frontline Club will host a debate asking whether the KONY 2012 campaign is a force for good or a worrying development in campaigning. Read more... |
The North Gauteng High Court was today forced to postpone the landmark case brought to compel South Africa to investigate and prosecute high-level Zimbabwean officials accused of crimes against humanity. Read more... |
Charges of grave human-rights crimes including torture and political assassination against Jean-Claude Duvalier, who ruled Haiti from 1971 to 1986, have been dismissed by investigative magistrate Carvès Jean, on the grounds that the ten-year statute of limitations had expired. Read more... |
The world's second-largest platinum miner, Impala, last week agreed to cede 51 per cent of its Zimbabwean arm, Zimplats, under Robert Mugabe’s indigenisation programme; the corporate version of the farm invasions which have seen white African farmers in Zimbabwe have their land taken off them, often violently, over the past decade. Read more... |