War Crime Case Against Tony Blair Now Rock-Solid
Tony Blair’s extraordinary admission on Sunday to the BBC’s Fern Britton… The case against Blair, strong enough before this latest comment, now appears rock solid.
Tony Blair’s extraordinary admission on Sunday to the BBC’s Fern Britton… The case against Blair, strong enough before this latest comment, now appears rock solid.
I knew… that attacking another country for the purposes of regime change is an illegal act of aggression under international law.
Reporting from Seoul – Lee Kyung-hee took a deep breath Thursday, and then she recounted the nightmare when her newborn was killed before her eyes in a North Korean prison. In 2005, Lee, eight months pregnant, escaped to China.
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Posted Thursday, December 3 2009
The Hague, Thursday
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has reversed its own decision to award bail to Congolese war crimes suspect Jean-Pierre Bemba.
Judges at The Hague decided Mr Bemba, Democratic Republic of Congo’s ex-vice-president, might flee if set free.
Mr Bemba, who has not entered a plea, is accused of leading militias who [...]
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THE HAGUE — Former DR Congo vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba will remain in custody while he awaits his war crimes trial, the appeal chamber of the International Criminal Court ruled on Wednesday.
The appeal was brought by the prosecution against the court’s decision in August to grant Bemba a conditional release.
Since then he has however remained [...]
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NOVEMBER 26, 2009
By DANIEL SCHWAMMENTHAL
The Hague
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed “great regret” in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration may reverse another Bush policy and sign up for what could lead to the trial of Americans for war [...]
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NOTE: UPDATE BELOW THIS ARTICLE
Press conference by ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo related to the situation in Kenya
THE HAGUE, Netherland, November 25, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ — ICC-CPI-20091124-MA54
Please be advised the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo will hold a press conference at 13:00 (The Hague local time) on Thursday, 26 November, 2009 [...]
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have ordered the resumption of a Serb nationalist’s trial almost a year after it was suspended amid claims of witness intimidation.
Vojislav Seselj is accused of using hate-laced speeches to incite atrocities by Serb forces in Bosnia and Croatia in conflicts as the former Yugoslavia [...]
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November 25, 2009
In Sweden, created the movement “against Karimov, which collects the statements of claim to the Hague tribunal against the President of Uzbekistan. Representatives of the movement intends to submit to him in court in Europe.
He founded a movement of activist and lawyer, Mark Rupert, who lives in Sweden. He collected more than 300 [...]
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Monday, 23 November 2009
Lawyers at the trial of the Khmer Rouge’s former prison chief in Cambodia are making closing arguments, after months of testimony.
Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Comrade Duch, ran a prison where thousands of people were tortured and murdered in the late 1970s.
The 67-year-old is accused of crimes against humanity and faces [...]
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22/11/2009
BELGRADE, Serbia — The head of the Veritas Documentation Centre in Belgrade, Savo Strbac, announced on Saturday (November 21st) that the police in Podgorica have arrested Stanko Kovacevic on suspicions of having committed war crimes in Croatia. According to Strbac, Kovacevic was arrested on Friday based on an Interpol arrest warrant issued in Zagreb, and [...]
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Africa News
Nov 23, 2009
The Hague – Two former rebel leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo are set to be the first people ever to stand trial for murder before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
Only the second case ever to be tried by the ICC, the proceedings starting Tuesday are to see [...]
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Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:34am EST
By David Clarke
NAIROBI, Nov 16 (Reuters) – The United States will attend an International Criminal Court (ICC) meeting this week as an observer for the first time since the Hague court was set up in 2002, President Barack Obama’s war crimes envoy said on Monday.
Stephen Rapp, U.S. ambassador-at-large for war [...]
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