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Article: Endgame: Mugesera goes home
Canadian authorities have rejected Leon Mugesera’s request to delay his deportation until a UN torture committee decides on a claim that he faces persecution back home. He was extradited to Kigali on Monday. By Josephine Uwineza, The...
Article: Kosovo: Life sentence for Serb in Sweden
A Swedish court on Friday sentenced a Serbian man to life behind bars for war crimes in connection with his role in a massacre of 40 people in the village of Cuske in Kosovo in 1999. Milic Martinovic, a 34-year-old Serb arrested in Sweden...
Article: No extradition for Chad's Habre
A Senegalese court on Wednesday rejected a Belgium request to extradite former Chad president Hissene Habre to Belgium to stand trial for alleged atrocities while he was in power. The decision of the Dakar appeals court comes days after...
Article: France to stop "genocide" bill
Turkish President Abdullah Gul called on France on Tuesday to drop a parliamentary bill making it illegal to deny the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey was genocide. Tension has risen between Paris and Ankara in the last...
Article: UN torture panel tells Senegal to prosecute or extradite Habré
The United Nations Committee against Torture has called on Senegal to comply with its obligation to prosecute or extradite Chad's exiled former dictator, Hissène Habré, Human Rights Watch says. The committee's action came...
Article: Dutch to close the net on old genocide suspects
The Netherlands is striving to close the net on old genocide cases and alleged mass killers. The Dutch parliament on Thursday approved a bill that will extend the possibility of detecting and prosecuting genocide. The bill - which will now...
Article: Denmark dismisses Rwandan genocide case
A Copenhagen appeals court ruled that Denmark's law on genocide cannot be used to prosecute a Rwandan man charged with killing Tutsis during the 1994 genocide and dismissed his case. "The wording of the (1955) law does not...
Article: Rights group seeks update on ICC probe in Nigeria
A year after Luis Moreno Ocampo announced he was to look into crimes in Jos, Nigerian rights groups are urging him to “make progress” and bring his “analysis and investigation of allegations of crimes against humanity in...
Article: Tamil war machine runs in the Netherlands
The Tamil community in the Netherlands (between 9,000 and 13,000 people) has been “largely annexed” by the Tamil Tigers to the violent conflict in Sri Lanka. Through extortion and sedition, a “climate of fear” has...
Article: France - Rwanda: now is the time
During his first visit to France since the 1994 genocide Rwandan President Paul Kagame repeated his will to “move forward”, to “overcome past disputes” and enter without delay into the second phase of...
