Ahead of the ICC’s tenth anniversary, IJT looks at the Dutch historical hold-up on international justice.
Interview with ICC judge Bruno Cotte, presiding judge at the second trial at the ICC* By Franck Petit, The Hague
Entretien avec le juge Bruno Cotte, président de chambre dans le second procès de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI). par Franck Petit, La Haye*
A former army chief known as the ‘Butcher of Butare’ is to spend life in prison for crimes committed in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. The UN tribunal for Rwanda issued the sentence on Tuesday.
Three major Dutch institutions are calling for a new investigation into the violence used by Dutch soldiers to counter the struggle for independence in colonial Indonesia between 1945 and 1949.
Recent Human Rights Watch and UN reports have denounced Rwanda’s support of rebels and army deserters in North Kivu.
Lawyers for Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor have informed a UN-backed court that they plan to appeal his 50-year prison sentence for war crimes, according to a court document seen Tuesday.
The District Court in The Hague on Monday “paused” the pre-trial detention of Yvonne Basebya (65) until the start of her trial in October 2012.
Rwanda on Monday officially closed the "gacaca" community courts, the controversial tribunals both credited with easing tensions and criticised for possible miscarriages of justice.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is under pressure to support a full investigation into allegations by Libya that an official from the office of the defence tried to pass documents to suspect Saif Al Gaddafi unrelated to the case agai