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ECHR: Ahorugeze: Court Gives Green Light to an Extradition to Rwanda
2011-10-27, Strasbourg, France. The European Court of Human Rights held that an extradition of Sylvere Ahorugeze, a Rwandan national of Hutu ethnicity, to Rwanda to face genocide charges will neither violate the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, nor his right to a fair trial. The Chamber found that: there was no evidence [...]
Posted in ECHR Also tagged Carl Henrik Ehrenkrona, charges, Denmark, ECHR, ethnicity, European Court of Human Rights, extradition, France, Hans Bredberg, health, Hutu, ill-treatment, impartiality, independence, Interahamwe, international arrest warrant, international standards, Kigali Central Prison, Mpanga Prison, persecution, personal circumstances, preliminary investigation, prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, public prosecutor, refugee status, right to a fair trial, Rwanda, Rwandan Civil Aviation Authority, Rwandan Embassy, Rwandan judiciary, Strasbourg, Sweden, Sylvere Ahorugeze, witness testimony Comments closed
ECCC: 002: Trial Chamber Rejects JCEIII
2011-09-12, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. After reviewing the WWII jurisprudence cited by the ICTY and the STL in support of JCE III, the ECCC Trial Chamber found that the inference drawn by those tribunals that post-WWII convictions were based on JCE III “was not the only possible one based on the surviving record.” As a result, the [...]
Posted in ECCC Also tagged 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC, Andrew Cayley, Ang Udom, applicability, Borkum Island Case, Brima et. al., Chea Leang, common criminal plan, Control Council Law No. 10, customary international law, Diana ELLIS, Duch Judgement, Elisabeth SIMONNEAU FORT, Essen Lynching Case, extended form, form of responsibility, general principle of law, genocidal intent, ICTY Appeals Chamber, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith, Jaques VERGES, JCE I, JCE II, JCE III, Jean-Marc Lavergne, joint criminal enterprise, jurisdictional challenge, Khieu Samphan, Krnojetac, Kvocka, Michael G. Karnavas, Michiel PESTMAN, Munyakazi, Nil Nonn, non-criminal common plan, Nuon Chea, participation, Phat Pouv Seang, PICH Ang, preliminary objections, Prosecutor v. Tadic, re-characterization, Rule 89, Sa Sovan, SCSL, Silvia Cartwright, Simba, SON Arun, specific intent, Thou Mony, Ulrich and Merkle, Victor KOPPE, Wuelfert, Ya Sokhan Comments closed
Israel: Cvetkovic: District Court Allows Extradition to Face Genocide Charges
2011-08-01, Jerusalem, Israel. The District Court of Jerusalem authorized extradition of Aleksandar Cvetković to Bosnia and Herzegovina to face genocide charges. He now has 30 days to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Israel. If extradited, he will be prosecuted before the War Crimes Section of the BiH Court in Sarajevo on charges arising [...]
Posted in BiH WCS, Domestic Courts Also tagged Aleksandar Cvetkovic, appeal, BiH, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Muslims, Branjevo farm, charges, citizen, citizenship, District Court, extradition, genocide charges, immigration, Israel, Jerusalem, July 1995, Main Headquarters, Nick Kaufman, Pilica, Republika Srpska Army, Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Supreme Court of Israel, Tenth Reconnaissance Squad, War Crimes Section, Zvornik municipality Comments closed
ICTR: Hategekimana: Trial Chamber Sentences the Accused to Life Imprisonment
2001-12-06, Arusha, Tanzania. Ildephonse Hategekimana, who was a Commander of the Ngoma Military Camp in Butare Préfecture, a lieutenant in the Forces Armées Rwandaises and a member of the Butare Préfectural Security Council during the 1994 genocide, was found guilty of genocide, murder as CAH and rape as CAH. Although the Trial Chamber rejected many [...]
Posted in ICTR Also tagged Alice Mukarwesa, Benebikira Convent, Butare, civilians, complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity, encouragement, ESO Military Camp, Father Masinzo, Forces Armées Rwandaises, Groupe Scolaire, ICTR-00-55, inflammatory speech, Interahamwe, Jacqueline Mukaburasa, Jean-Bosco Rugomboka, Judgement, judgment, laissez-passers, life imprisonment, Maison Généralice, Matyazo Health Centre, Matyazo Primary School, murder, Ngoma Camp, Ngoma Military Camp, Ngoma Secteur, Nura Sezirahiga, Préfectural Security Council, Préfecture, rape, Rwandan Patriotic Front, Sadiki Sezirahiga, Salomé Mujawayezu, Théodore Sindikubwabo Comments closed
Estonia: Former Soviet Official Tried for Genocide
2010-11-03, Tartu, Estonia. The trial of Väino Pehk, 82, on charges of genocide started in Tartu County Court. Mr. Pehk is accused of assisting deportation of 61 Estonian families, and directly participating in deportation of 3 families from the Saadjärve municipality to Siberia in March 1949. Genocide carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years. [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts Also tagged County Court, deportation, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, forest brothers, Saadjarve, Security Police, Siberia, Soviet Union, state security department, Tartu, Vaino Pehk Comments closed
ICC: Kenya: A Victim of Post-Election Violence Seeks Domestic Prosecutions
2010-09-28, Nairobi, Kenya. Mr Kepha Mwembi filed a motion seeking an order forcing a former Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Post-Election Violence, Mr. Justice Philip Waki, to disclose the names of persons who, the Commission found, were responsible for the post-election violence in Kenya. The suit names Mr Justice Waki, who is a [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts, ICC Also tagged Attorney General, Chairman, Commission of Inquiry into the Post-Election Violence, Commissioner of Police, crimes against humanity, criminal proceedings, disclosure, Kenya, Kepha Mwembi, motion, murder, Nairobi, Philip Waki, post-election violence, rape, Wamuti Ndegwa Comments closed
Argentina: A Judge Challenges Spain on Its Failure to Investigate Franko’s Crimes
2010-10-14, Buenos Aires, Argentina. An Argentinean Judge Maria Romilda Servini de Cubria petitioned the Spanish government “to inform this court whether in your country there is an investigation into the existence of a systematic, widespread and deliberate plan designed to terrorise those Spaniards who supported representative government via their physical elimination, and of a plan [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts Also tagged 1977 amnesty law, amnesty law, Argentina, assassination, Baltasar Garzon, deliberate, dictatorship, disappearance, forced disappearances, Francisco Franco, General Francisco Franco, human rights abuses, Investigation, Jose Luis Sanchez Bravo, judge, kidnapping, Maria Servini, murder, Silvia Carretero, Spanish Civil War, systematic, torture, widespread Comments closed
Israel: Cvetkovic: Supreme Court Upheld the Decision to Extradite on Genocide Charges