Search Results for: 1999-06-04

A Rwandan businessman pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide during Norway's first genocide trial. Sadi Bugingo is accused of taking a lead role in planning and...

Perry Moriearty, University of Minnesota School of Law

JURIST Guest Columnist Wael Lafee, an LL.M. student at the Univeristy of Pittsburgh, is the author of the twelfth entry of a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He explains Palestine's unique...

The Rwandan community courts set up to hear genocide-related cases, known as gacaca courts officially concluded their 10-year operation on Monday. The gacaca process has been praised by the UN as...

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Bailey v. United States to determine whether police officers may lawfully detain individuals incident to a search warrant when those individuals have...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday sentenced former Rwandan Minister of Youth and Sports Callixte Nzabonimana to life in prison after finding him guilty of charges related to...

The Rwandan high court ruled Wednesday that the case against opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza will continue despite her announcement this week that she refuses to attend further proceedings. The court's ruling ...

A report compiled by a French court appeared Tuesday to clear Rwandan President Paul Kagame of accusations that he orchestrated the 1994 assassination of the country's then-leader Juvenal Habyarimana . The accusations against Kagame...

The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Belarus Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2011 , imposing new sanctions on Belarus in reaction to what the bill's author calls "the worst...

A lawyer for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega announced on Tuesday that French authorities have agreed to extradite him to Panama. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon reportedly agreed to the...