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ICTR: Hategekimana: Trial Chamber Sentences the Accused to Life Imprisonment

By Editor | Published: January 9, 2011

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, genocide, Groupe Scolaire, ICTR-00-55, inflammatory speech, Interahamwe, Jacqueline Mukaburasa, Jean-Bosco Rugomboka, Judgement, 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

United States: 2d Cir. Allows Confiscation of Iranian Property to Pay Wrongful Death Judgment

By Editor | Published: June 23, 2010

2010-06-15, New York, United States. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit upheld the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of N.Y. allowing a victim of a Hamas bombing in Israel to attach Iranian bank’s property in satisfaction of a civil judgment. The case arose as a result of the [...]

Posted in Domestic Courts | Also tagged 09-3034-cv, 1605(a)(7), 28 U.S.C., abrogation of immunity, Algiers Accords, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ali Fallahian-Khuzestani, Amalya L. Kearse, American citizen, Article IV.2, Ayatollah Ali Hoseini Khamenei, Bank Melli Iran, Bank of New York, Bank Saderat Iran, Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP, civil action against foreign state, David Weinstein, death, Department of State, estate, Fifth Amendment, Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act, Forest Hills, FSIA, Hamas, Hazi & David Weinstein, Hostage Crisis, instrumentality, Ira Weinstein, Ira William Weinstein, Iranian bank, Iranian Ministry Of Information And Security, Islamic Republic Of Iran, Israel, Jed S. Rakoff, Jeffrey A. Miller, Jennifer Weinstein, Jennifer Weinstein Hazi, Jerusalem, Joseph Weinstein, Laina C. Lopez, Leonard D. Wexler, material support, New York, non-party, personal injury, Peter W. Hall, proliferator of weapons of mass destruction, property, Queens, separate juridical status, separation of powers doctrine, state sponsored terrorism, subject matter jurisdiction, substantial monetary support, suicide bombing, Susan Weinstein, Takings Clause, Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, terrorist act, terrorist attacks, third party, Thomas G. Corcoran Jr., tort, Treaty of Amity, TRIA, U.S. Constitution, United States, United States citizen. 201(a), United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, victim, wrongful death | Comments closed

USA: Samantar v. Yousuf: USSC Votes for Accountability

By Editor | Published: June 15, 2010

2010-06-01, Washington D.C., U.S.A. The USSC rendered its judgment in Samantar v. Yousuf - a case filed by the CJA on behalf of victims of violations of human rights against a former Somali Minister of Defense and Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Samantar. The claim was brought under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 and the Alien Tort Statute. [...]

Posted in Domestic Courts | Also tagged agency or instrumentality, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Alexandria, Alien Tort Statute, Allyson K. Duncan, Amy Howe, Andrea C. Evans, ATS, Bashe Abid Yousuf, Beth Stephens, Center for Justice and Accountability, CJA, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, corporate entity, David J. Strandness, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, FSIA, head-of-state immunity, Howe & Russell, human rights, immunity, individual officials, Jeffrey L. Fisher, Jones Day, Jr., Julian H. Spirer and Fred B. Goldberg, Kevin K. Russell, Kyle C. Wong, L. Kathleen Roberts, lack of subject matter jurisdiction, Lauren Kerwin, Leonie M. Brinkema, Lori R. E. Ploeger, Mark J. MacDougall, Maureen P. Alger, Michael A. Carvin, Minister of Defense, Mohamed Ali Samantar, Natasha E. Fain, official capacity, Pamela M. Merchant, Pamela S. Karlan, Patricia A. Millett, Patricia Millet, Paul V. Lettow, political body, Prime Minister, Robert B. King, Robert R. Vieth, Rule 12(b)(1), Samantar v. Yousuf, SCOTUS, Shay Dvoretzky, Somalia, Spirer & Goldberg, Standlord Law School, state sovereign immunity, Steven Schulman, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Thomas C. Goldstein, torture, Torture Victim Protection Act, Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, TVPA, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, United States Supreme Court, USSC, William B. Traxler | Comments closed

ECCC: Duch: Trial Judgment to be Rendered on July 26

By Editor | Published: May 26, 2010

2010-05-24, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The trial judgment in the Duch case will be announced on July 26. Mr. Kaing was accused of committing crimes against humanity, war crimes, premeditated murder and torture as a head of the prison camp S21. The accused was arrested on 30 July 2007, and tried between 30 March and 27 November [...]

Posted in ECCC | Also tagged 001/18-07-2007-ECCC/TC, 1956 Cambodian Penal Code, Communist Party of Kampuchea, CPK, crimes against humanity, Duch, head, Kaing Guek Eav, Office S21, premeditated murder, prison, S21, Santebal, torture, trial judgment, war crimes | Comments closed

ECHR: Kononov’s Claim Against Latvia Rejected

By Editor | Published: May 18, 2010

2010-05-17, Strasbourg, France. The Court rejected an application filed by Vasiliy Kononov against Latvia in respect of Mr. Kononov’s conviction for war crimes perpetrated as a member of a sabotage group of Nazi resistance in Latvia in 1944. He was indicted in 1998 by Latvian prosecutors for murdering civilians during WWII. On 29 February 1944, Nazi [...]

Posted in ECHR | Also tagged 36376/04, Alan Vaughan Lowe, Centre for the Documentation of the Consequences of Totalitarianism, Christos Rozakis, Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental, conviction, Dean Spielmann, Dragoljub Popovic, Françoise Tulkens, Grand Chamber, Inga Reine, Ireneu Cabral Barreto, Jean-Paul Costa, Josep Casadevall, Kononov v. Latvia, Latvia, Latvian Principal Public, Ledi Bianku, Malye Baty, Mazie Bati, Mihai Poalelungi, Nazi, Nebojsa Vucinic, Nicolas Bratza, occupation, Paivi Hirvela, partisan, Peer Lorenzen, Renate Jaeger, resistance, Russia, Russian Federation, Sverre Erik Jebens, Vasiliy Kononov, Vassili Kononov, Zdravka Kalaydjieva | Comments closed

ICJ: Pulp Mills: Uruguay Breached Procedural, but not Substantive Obligations

By Editor | Published: April 24, 2010

2010-04-20, The Hague, The Netherlands. The Court rendered its judgment in Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay). The Court found that claims arising from noise, visual pollution, and bad odours produced by the Orion (Botnia) mill did not fall within its jurisdiction because they did not relate to the interpretation or application; [...]

Posted in ICJ | Also tagged 1961 Treaty of Montevideo, 1975 Statute of the River Uruguay, Abraham, Administrative Commission of the River Uruguay, Al-Khasawneh, Bennouna, Botnia, Cancado Trindade, CARU, CMB, Couvreur., ENCE, General List No. 135, Greenwood, Keith, Koroma, Orion, Port terminal at Nueva Palmira, pulp mill, Sepulveda-Amor, Simma, Skotnikov, summary, Tomka, Torres Bernardez, Vinuesa, Yusuf | Comments closed

ICJ: Pulp Mills: The Judgment to be Rendered in April

By Editor | Published: March 28, 2010

2010-03-26, The Hague, The Netherlands. The ICJ to render the judgment in the case of Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) on April 20, 2010. The conflict between the two states is in respect of the Botnia pulp mill that Argentina alleged pollutes air and water. The mill, that is worth $1.2B , is Uruguay’s largest [...]

Posted in ICJ | Also tagged Argentina, Botnia, pulp mills, River Uruguay, Uruguay | Comments closed

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