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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, genocide, 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, 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
Argentina: 15 Former Officials Jailed for Human Rights Violations Committed during the Dirty War
2010-12-21, Buenos Aires & Mar del Plata, Argentina. Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata Courts sentenced to life in prison 15 military and police officers for crimes they committed during Videla’s military dictatorship (1976-1983). The Mar del Plata Court convicted a former army officer and 2 ex-marines for kidnapping and torturing nine opposition members at a [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts Also tagged 1976-1983, Argentina, Buenos Aires, detention center, Dirty War, Jorge Rafael Videla, Justice Information Center, kidnapping, life sentence, Mar del Plata, marine, military dictatorship, military officers, national police captain, police officers, prison guard, torture Comments closed
Argentina: Jorge Rafael Videla, former head of state, Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
2010-12-22, Cordoba, Argentina. A Cordoba Court sentenced Jorge Rafael Videla, 85, former Argentine dictator, to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity committed during his 1976–1981 regime when over 10’000 people were disappeared and killed. Mr. Rafael Videla was sentenced in 1985 to life in prison, however, was pardoned five years later by former President Carlos [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts Also tagged 1976–1981, Argentina, Argentine dictator, Carlos Menem, Cordoba, crimes against humanity, dictatorship, Dirty War, disappearance, Jorge Rafael Videla, life imprisonment, Luciano Benjamin Menendez, pardon, sentence, Supreme Court of Argentine 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, genocide, Kenya, Kepha Mwembi, motion, 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, genocide, human rights abuses, Investigation, Jose Luis Sanchez Bravo, judge, kidnapping, Maria Servini, Silvia Carretero, Spanish Civil War, systematic, torture, widespread Comments closed
ICTR: Rukundo: Appeals Chamber Finds former Military Champlain Guilty of "Aiding and Abetting" Genocide and CAH, Reverses Conviction for "Commission"
2010-10-20, Arusha, Tanzania. “The Chamber affirmed the conviction of Rukundo, a former Military Chaplain, for genocide and for murder and extermination as crimes against humanity in relation to the events related to Saint Joseph’s College and for the killing of Tutsi refugees abducted from the Saint Léon Minor Seminary. But it did so on the [...]
Posted in ICTR Also tagged Abubacarr Tambadou, Aïcha Condé, aiding and abetting, Benoit Henry, Carmel Agius, Christine Graham, crimes against humanity, Emmanuel Rukundo, extermination, Fausto Pocar, genocide, Hassan Bubacar Jallow, Liu Daqun, Mehmet Guney, military chaplain, Ousman Jammeh, Saint Joseph’s College, Saint Leon Minor Seminary, Shamus Mangan, Theodor Meron, Tutsi refugees Comments closed
Denmark: Court of Appeal: Danish Genocide Law Has No Extraterritorial Application