JURIST Guest Columnist Dhruv Sharma of National Law University, Delhi discusses the tense relationship between India and Pakistan magnified due to recent events ... On May 8 2017, the President of the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”), exercising his powers...
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Numerous African and international nongovernmental organizations urged Zambia to reaffirm its membership in the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday. The calls come in response to the African Union's (AU) decision to adopt...
UNCITRAL Working Group II Draft Mechanism on Enforcement of Conciliation Settlement Agreements
JURIST Guest Columnist Robert Gyenes discusses the UNCITRAL Working Group II (Dispute Resolution) in Vienna, which aims to negotiate an international mediation treaty or law... The 65th meeting of the UN Commission on International Trade Law’s Working Group II recently...
Bosco Ntaganda , a former rebel in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has begun a hunger strike and is refusing to appear at his trial to protest the conditions of his detention. Ntaganda is on...
Morocco violating State Department assurances for former Guantanamo prisoner: lawyer
A lawyer for former Guantanamo detainee Younous Chekkouri said Thursday that the Moroccan government is not upholding the diplomatic assurances it provided to the US State Department regarding the release of his client, namely that...
The trial of Bosco Ntaganda , a former Congolese military leader also known as "The Terminator," began at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday. The rebel leader has pleaded innocent to the...
Former Bulgaria intelligence chief sentenced to 10 years in prison
A Bulgarian military court on Friday sentenced former intelligence chief Kircho Kirov to 10 years in prison for embezzlement. Kirov had served as the head of the National Intelligence Service from 2002 until...
Convening authority throws out conviction of Noor Uthman Mohammed
The convening authority for the Office of Military Commissions retired Marine Major General Vaughn A. Ary on Friday overturned the terror conviction against Sudanese national Noor Uthman Muhammed and dismissed the charges against him...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Wednesday announced the release of Fouzi Khalid Abdullah Al Awda from the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, after nearly 13 years of imprisonment without a...
Abu Qatada cleared of terrorism charges, released from prison
Radical Islamic preacher Abu Qatada was cleared Wednesday of terrorism offenses by a court in Jordan, and was released from prison. The court found insufficient evidence to convict the 53-year-old cleric of helping to...