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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 [...]
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, murder, national police captain, police officers, prison guard 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, murder, Silvia Carretero, Spanish Civil War, systematic, widespread Comments closed
Sweden: Swedish Citizen Charged with Torturing Bosnian Serbs
2010-10-05, Stockholm, Sweden. Ahmet Makitan, a Swedish citizen, 43, was charged with war crimes allegedly committed while working as a guard at the Dretelj prison camp in May-August 1992. During the war, Mr. Makitan was a member of a Croatian paramilitary group HOS. He is accused of kidnapping civilians and torturing prisoners, the majority of [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts Also tagged Ahmet Makitan, Bosnian Serbs, charge, citizen, civilians, Croatian paramilitary group, Dretelj, guard, HOS, kidnapping, Magnus Elving, Ola Salomosson, pre-trial custody, prison camp, prisoners, Stockholm, Stockholm district court, Sweden, war crimes Comments closed
USA: Samantar v. Yousuf: USSC Votes for Accountability
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., judgment, 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 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
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, judgment, Kaing Guek Eav, Office S21, premeditated murder, prison, S21, Santebal, trial judgment, war crimes Comments closed
US: Mujagic Arrested for War Crimes Allegedly Committed during Bosnian War