Vol.

7, Issue 5 -- June 4, 2012

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

Central African Republic & Uganda BembaTrial.org: Prosecutor Wants Bemba Defense Case Date Set Chicago Tribune: Uganda Rules out Amnesty for Captured LRA Commander Panapress: AU Renews Mandate of Regional Military Force against LRA BembaTrial.org: Three Victims to Address Bemba Trial via Video Link allAfrica: Official: Uganda: No More Amnesty for LRA Rebels as Law Expires Darfur, Sudan Sudan Tribune: Sudan Calls on African Nations to Withdraw from ICC Mmegi Online: Bashir's Leadership is Like Cancer - Khama Sudan Tribune: Sudan Files New Complaint to Security Council Against South Sudan Democratic Republic of the Congo KatangaTrial.org: Legal Representatives for Victims Make Closing Statements KatangaTrial.org: DRC President Joseph Kabila is to Blame for the Bogoro Attack, Defense Argues LubangaTrial.org: Prosecutor Wants Sexual Crimes Considered in Lubanga Sentencing International Criminal Court Press Release: ICC Trial Chamber II to Deliberate on the Case Against Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui Kenya The Star: ICC Lawyers in Kenya for Fresh Evidence CapitalFM News: Trial Fate of Ocampo Four Sealed allAfrica.com: ICC to Fly Out Ten New Witnesses allAfrica.com: Matsanga vs. Ocampo - Round Two The Star: Uhuru and Ruto May Spend Four Years in Hague Libya AlJazeera: Tunisia to Extradite Former Gaddafi PM Fars News Agency: Libya to Hold Trial of Qadafi's Son Soon Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

United States Embassy Abidjan: The International Criminal Court to Open a Bureau in Abidjan United States Embassy Abidjan: The Case of Former President Gbagbo and His Supporters Leadership: Party Of Cote d'Ivoire's Ex-President Says Case At ICC "Political" Leadership US Embassy Abidjan: Pro-Opposition Papers Criticize the ICC Ahead of Former President Laurent Gbagbo's Trial

AFRICA
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda allAfrica: Court Orders Start of Lon Mugesera Case allAfrica: UN Funds U.S.$3 Million ICTR Archives allAfrica: Genocide Suspect's Case File Transferred Hirondelle News Agency : Defence Challenges Decisions Over Witnesses in Ngirabatware Case Hirondelle News Agency: Rwandan Teacher Denies Genocide Charges Before Canadian Judiciary Special Court for Sierra Leone New York Times: Ex-Liberian Leader Gets 50 Years for War Crimes

EUROPE
Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Custody of Ramiz Avdovi Terminated and Prohibiting Measures Imposed The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Status Conference in the Predrag Proi Case The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Pronouncement of the FirstInstance Verdict in the Case v. Duko Jevi et al. The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Dejan Radojkovi Ordered into Custody The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Trial Verdict Pronounced in Duko Jevi et al. Case The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Commencement of Trial Before the Appellate Panel in the Case v. Gojko Klickovic et al. The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Main Trial Commences in the Case v. Predrag Prosic

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ratko Dronjak Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Ex-Special Ops Soldier Denies Simatovic Was Commander Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Milan Lukic Reiterates Innocence Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Date Set for First Mladic Witness Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Witness Speaks Highly of Accused Serbian Security Officers Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Closing Arguments in Stanisic, Zupljanin Case Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Witness Says Simatovic had No Command of "Red Berets" Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia B92: Gnjilane Group Trial to Continue on Thursday The Washington Times: ICE Deports Bosnian-Serb Police Officer Charged in Genocide

MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Syria AsiaOne: Khmer Rouge Trial Suspended as Accused Falls Ill Jakarta Globe: Khmer Rouge Trial Waits on Accused to Recover The Phnom Penh Post: Investigation Flawed: 004 Suspect's Lawyers The Phnom Penh Post: Ieng Sary's Recovery Ruled Out: Doctors The Phnom Penh Post: Judge Alleged Misconduct The Phnom Penh Post: Khmer Rouge Court Told of City's Evacuation The Phnom Penh Post: KR Evacuation Plan Dissected The Phnom Penh Post: Witness Backtracks at KRT The Phnom Penh Post: KR's Female Victims Were Not Forgotten Reuters: Human Rights Crimes Still Taking Place in Syria: U.N The Guardian: Syrian Defectors Accuse Assad Relatives of Ordering Crimes Against Humanity Huffington Post: Syria Strongly Denies Allegations That Its Forces Killed More Than 100 People Huffington Post: Russia Condemns Syria Over Massacre Of 108 At Houla The Telegraph: Syria Using Rape as Weapon Against Opposition Women and Men

Special Tribunal for Lebanon Naharnet: STL Trial Chamber Sets June 13 Hearing for Arguments on Legality of Tribunal's Creation Naharnet The Daily Star: Draft Budget Earmarks $72 Million for Special Tribunal Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh News 24: ICT1 Adjourns Review Plea Hearing The Daily Star: Bad(s) at Goods Hill: Prosecution Witness Says SQ Chy's Home Seen as 'Main Office' of Collaborators Bangladesh News 24: Defence Pleads for Mujaheed Exemption The Daily Star: Nizami, Mollah Indicted Bangladesh News 24: Nizami Pleads Not Guilty as Trial Starts Bangladesh News 24 : ICT1 Poses Questions Against Sayadee War Crimes Investigations in Burma Agence France-Presse: Amnesty Accuses Myanmar Military

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA

United States Politico: Judge Demands Guantanamo Videos New York Times: Secret 'Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will CNews: Khadr is a Danger, U.S. Doctor Says Reuters: Obama Set to Arm Italy's Drones in Milestone Move AFP: Next 9/11 Guantanamo Hearing Postponed to August 8 South America Brazil MecroPress: Rousseff Receives Apology and Compensation for Tortures Suffered When She Was a Guerrilla Chile The Santiago Times: Human Rights Report Released Amid Legal Controversy in Chile Columbia Colombia Reports: Santos Defends "Framework for Peace" Bill Colombia Reports: Colombian Human Rights Show Little Improvement: Amnesty International

TOPICS
Terrorism BBC News: Denmark Arrests in "Terror Plot" BBC News: Azerbaijan Foiled Plot to Attack Eurovision Hindustan Times: Afridi's Sentence Makes Mockery of Law in Pak BBC News: Two Men Charged Over Pipe Bomb Find in Dungannon Associated Press: Bali Bombing Suspect Umar PatekTells Indonesian Court Life Sentence is Too Heavy Xinhua: Iraqi Court Rejects Request by Wanted Sunni VP's Lawyers to Summon President Piracy The National: UAE Decision to Sentence Somali Pirates to Life Praised Gender-Based Violence The Guardian: Domestic Violence is Biggest Threat to West Africa's Women, IRC Says Associated Presse: Gender-Violence Claim Added to NYC Lawsuit v. DSK IRIN Asia: Philippines: Steep Rise in Gender-Based Violence BBC: Colombia Acid Victims Seek Justice as Attacks Spread

REPORTS
UN Reports New York Times: U.N. Report Says Rwandans Recruited to Fight in Congo NGO Reports Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Prosecutor Seeks New Charges in DRC Institute for War and Peace Reportinge: ICC Turns Attention to Mali

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS

Sri Lanka The Siasat Daily: Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Proposes Truth Commission Zimbabwe

 New Zimbabwe: UN Chief Urges Truth Commission Thailand Pattayadailynews.com: First Batch of Political Violence Victims Compensated The Nation: Frustration as TRCT's End Nears Liberia The New Dawn: Liberia: FIND Welcomes Call for ICC

COMMENTARY AND PERSPECTIVES

New York Times: A Flawed Court in Need of Credibility Communis Hostis Omnium: Prosecution Seeks Death Penalty for Felony Murder Justice in Conflict: Does the ICC Need to Reconcile with Africa? Bensouda Comes Out Swinging Opinio Juris: Taylor Sentenced to 50 Years Imprisonment The Guardian: War Crimes: Charles Taylor Now, Bashar al-Assad Next The Daily Beast: Charles Taylor's Hague Sentence Sparks War-Crimes Debate in Liberia The Irish Times: Illusory UN Peace Plan Has Failed to Stop Syrian Horror

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