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Denmark: Court of Appeal: Danish Genocide Law Has No Extraterritorial Application

2011-10-24, Copenhagen, Denmark. The Eastern High Court of Appeal held that the Danish Act No. 132 of 29 of April 1955 Concerning the Punishment of Genocide cannot be used to prosecute Accused for acts of genocide committed outside Denmark. The Court stated that ”the wording of the law does not provide a basis to assume that the intention was [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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France: Mbarushimana Charged with Crimes Against Humanity for Crimes Allegedly Committed During the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

2010-12-22, Paris, France. Examining magistrate Rene Cros charged Mr. Callixte Mbarushimana, an alleged executive secretary of the FDLR, a rebel group based in the Eastern DRC, with crimes against humanity. The charges follow a law suit filed by victims’ groups accusing Mr. Mbarushimana of directly participating in killings in Kiguli during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. [...]
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France: Mbarushimana to be Transferred to the ICC

2010-11-03, Paris, France. La Chambre de l’instruction of the Paris Court of Appeals ordered Callixte Mbarushimana, 47, to be transferred to the International Criminal Court.  Mr. Mbarushimana is accused of being an executive secretary of the FDLR and of being responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Congo in 2009. The Court [...]
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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 [...]
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ICC: Mbarushimana: Paris Court of Appeals Denies Bail

2010-10-27, Paris, France. La Chambre de l’instruction of the Paris Court of Appeals refused to release Callixte Mbarushimana, an alleged leader of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), from custody pending the decision on his extradition to the ICC. Mr. Mbarushimana was arrested on October 11, 2010 pursuant to an arrest warrant issued under seal [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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