Netherlands high court upholds conviction of Saddam chemical weapons supplier
The Dutch Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the 2005 war crimes conviction of a Dutch businessman convicted of selling chemicals used by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to create...
The trial of the only captured gunman in the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks , Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab , began on Monday. Kasab appeared before specially appointed judge M.L. Tahiliyani at the Bombay...
Iraq has become the 186th nation to join the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) by acceding to the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention , the organization announced Wednesday. A spokesperson for UN...
Western lawyers say due process abandoned in Saddam trial: NYT
Western lawyers involved with the trial of the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity in the Iraqi town of Dujail alleged in a New York...
NY appeals court upholds Port Authority negligence verdict in 1993 WTC bombing
A New York appeals court has upheld a jury's finding that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was negligent in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by Islamic...
Iraq Presidency Council approves 'Chemical Ali' execution for Anfal crimes
Iraq's Presidency Council on Friday approved the execution of Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the western media as "Chemical Ali," after months of deliberations over the fate of al-Majid and two other men...
The Iraqi government will intentionally miss a 30-day deadline to execute former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid , also known as "Chemical Ali," choosing instead to delay the execution until after the Islamic holy...
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Towards Re-empowerment
JURIST Guest Columnists S. James Anaya of the Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, and Siegfried Wiessner of St. Thomas University School of Law say that the UN General Assembly's recent landslide adoption of the UN Declaration on the...
Dutch prosecutors fight appeal by chemical supplier convicted of selling to Saddam
Dutch prosecutors Monday sought to introduce documents from the ongoing genocide trial of Saddam-era Iraqi officials for the gassing deaths of Kurds in the so-called "Anfal" campaign to oppose an appeal...
Iraqi genocide trial continues with video of violence against Kurds
Prosecutors in the ongoing genocide trial of Saddam-era officials before the Iraqi High Tribunal introduced a videotape Sunday of executions and destruction of Kurdish homes during the "Anfal" campaigns [HRW backgrounder;...
