The trial of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic started before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) last Wednesday – but not really.
A day before their appeals hearing, people were praying for Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac in the local church in Pakostani, the town where Gotovina’s family resides.
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal was postponed Wednesday until next week to allow the oldest of the three former regime leaders on trial to recover from bronchitis.
The war crimes trial of Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic, abruptly halted after one day, should be delayed "for weeks rather than months," the UN court's chief prosecutor said Tuesday.
Uganda's chief prosecutor on Tuesday appeared to rule out any amnesty for Lord's Resistance Army commander Caesar Acellam, captured this month.
Brazil on Monday ruled out any international discussion of its 1979 amnesty law exonerating those guilty of human rights violations during the 1964-1985 military dictatorship.
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will face a second trial on genocide charges after a judge ruled on Monday he could be prosecuted for ordering a 1982 massacre that left 201 people dead.
A Mauritanian court has charged Muammar Gaddafi's ex-spy chief, arrested two months ago and the subject of several handover demands, with illegally entering the country, an official said Monday.
A quarter of East Timor's population was killed during Indonesia's 24-year occupation. As the nation celebrates a decade of independence, its leaders look to bury the past but for some resentment persists.
Judges at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal suspended proceedings on Monday as the oldest of the three former regime leaders on trial remained in hospital suffering from bronchitis.