Tag: War crimes
Ex-judge: EU law mission in Kosovo holds anti-Albanian bias
TIRANA, Albania — A former British judge on Monday accused the European Union's legal watchdog in Kosovo of political meddling in many trials aimed...
Kosovo adopts resolution to condemn 1995 Srebrenica massacre
PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s parliament on Wednesday adopted a resolution condemning the 1995 massacre of thousands of Bosnian men and boys in Srebrenica by...
Kosovo: Serb ex-police officer jailed for rape during war
PRISTINA, Kosovo — A Kosovar court on Monday sentenced to 10 years in prison a Serbian ex-policeman accused of raping an ethnic Albanian woman...
Judge: Libya’s Hifter cannot claim immunity from civil suits
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Libyan military commander who previously lived for decades in Virginia cannot claim head-of-state immunity as a defense in lawsuits accusing...
UN war crimes court to pass judgment in retrial of 2 Serbs
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A United Nations court is delivering judgments Wednesday in the retrial of two allies of the late Serbian President Slobodan...
Dutch court convicts woman for spreading IS propaganda
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Dutch court convicted a 32-year-old woman and sentenced her to six years' imprisonment Tuesday for involvement in war crimes...
Ivory Coast’s ex-president to return 10 years after arrest
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to accept defeat in Ivory Coast's 2010 presidential election sparked months of violence that killed at least...
ICC prosecutor urges Sudan to hand over Darfur suspects
UNITED NATIONS — Fatou Bensouda briefed the U.N. Security Council for the last time as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday,...
UN strongly condemns violations in Central African Republic
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council on Monday strongly condemned violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the Central African Republic...
UN judges to rule on Ratko Mladic appeal against convictions
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic will hear Tuesday if U.N. judges have upheld or overturned his convictions and...