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A Turkish court on Saturday ordered the release of three Kurdish lawmakers charged with having links to militants after ordering the release of two others on Friday. A judge in Diyarbakir ruled that the detainment of Selma...

The Turkish court in Diyarbakir on Monday rejected bids to be released from pre-trial detention by two members of the parliament for the Kurdish Peace and Democratic Party (BDP), Gulser Yildirim and Ibrahim Ayhan. Yildirim and Ayhan have been...

Paul Johnson, University of York

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday reduced the sentence of Aloys Ntabakuze , a former Rwandan army officer convicted of genocide and related crimes, and affirmed the sentences of...

JURIST Guest Columnist Valerie Vollmar of Willamette University College of Law says the Georgia legislature seems to have acted hastily without thinking through the potential consequences of its new assisted suicide law, which differs dramatically from the legislative schemes in...

A Date With Justice: Mugesera's Inevitable Deportation from Canada
Charles Jalloh, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; January 16, 2012

Top officials of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) told the UN Security Council Wednesday that...

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday heard oral arguments in the appeal of Dominique Ntawukulilyayo, the former Sub-Prefect of the southern region of Gisagara. The five judges composing...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Friday convicted and sentenced six individuals, including the first female to be charged with genocide and crimes against humanity, in relation to the 1994 Rwandan genocide [HRW...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously in Staub v. Proctor Hospital that an employer may be held liable for employment discrimination based on discriminatory motivations...