Kosovo, Albania call for probe of ex ICTY prosecutor Carla Del PonteKosovo and Albania called on international authorities to launch a special investigation into alleged abuses associated with former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte’s decision to indict recently acquitted former Kosovar prime minister Ramush Haradinaj.15:19 03.12.2012
Russian Foreign Ministry rages over ICTY's Haradinaj acquittalRussia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) sees the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia's (ICTY) decision to acquit former Kosovar prime minister and rebel commander Ramush Haradinaj of all war crimes charges as further evidence of the tribunal's selective justice problem.16:50 30.11.2012
Jurors chosen in Colonel Budanov murder caseThe Moscow City Court has chosen the jurors in the murder case against Yusup Temerkhanov, who has been accused of killing Colonel Yuri Budanov.16:23 30.11.2012
Former Kosovo prime minister and rebel commander Haradinaj acquitted by ICTYThe International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) acquitted former Kosovar prime minister and rebel leader Ramush Haradinaj of all charges of war crimes Thursday, ordering his immediate release from the UN detention center.16:31 29.11.2012
ICTY upholds Serbian nationalist leader's contempt of court sentenceThe Appeals Chamber has upheld the sentence handed down to the leader of the Serbian Radical Party, Vojislav Seselj, by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in October 2011.11:56 29.11.2012
No request for sentence review for Croatian generalsFrederick Swinnen, Advisor to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced on Tuesday that he would not be seeking a review of the not guilty verdict for the two Croatian generals.12:01 21.11.2012
Acquittal of Croatian generals brings into question ICTY's impartialityMoscow questions the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia's (ICTY) acquittal of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac, reads the comment published by the Foreign Ministry's Information and Press Department.10:39 19.11.2012
ICTY frees convicted Croatian generalsThe Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has found Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac not guilty after they were convicted last year for committing military crimes against the Serbs in 1991-1995.18:00 16.11.2012
ICTY to issue sentence to retired Bosnian Serb Army general on December 12On December 12, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) will announce the sentence imposed on retired General of the Bosnian Serb Army Zdravko Tolimir, who could face life imprisonment for organizing the Srebrenica massacre in the summer of 1995.11:01 16.11.2012
ICTY refuses to release Momcilo Krajisnik on paroleThe president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Theodor Meron has denied the request to release Momcilo Krajisnik on parole. Krajisnik was one of the main Serbian leaders during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995.17:36 09.11.2012
Five officers of Ghaddafi's army sentenced to deathA military court in Benghazi, Libya has sentenced to death in absentia five soldiers of the murdered leader Muammar Ghaddafi's army.16:18 08.11.2012
Syrian rebels apparently caught on video committing war crimesA video clip released Thursday appears to depict a group of Syrian rebels summarily executing a number of unarmed men alleged to be captive soldiers in violation of international humanitarian law.18:32 02.11.2012
War criminal guilty of torturing more than 30 Serbians sentenced to 3.5 yearsOn Wednesday a Zagreb court sentenced former head of the Kerestinec Camp Stjepan Klaric to three and a half years in prison for torturing 34 Serb civilians and prisoners of war during the 1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence.10:51 01.11.2012
Former Bosnian Serb leader begins defense at ICTYAccused genocidaire Radovan Karadzic began the first day of his defense case with scathing indictments directed at mass media and the international community for conspiring against him specifically and the Serb people in general by way of a campaign of misinformation that permeated the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war.19:05 16.10.2012
Katyn massacre case set for February 13 in ECHR Grand ChamberThe Grand Chamber will hear the application against the European Court of Human Rights' judgment in the case of the Polish POWs executed in Katyn in 1940 in February 2013.14:52 15.10.2012
Katyn case referred to ECHR Grand ChamberThe European Court of Human Rights has accepted a request on behalf of the relatives of the Polish POWs executed in Katyn in 1940 for referral of the Katyn case to the Grand Chamber.16:04 10.10.2012
ICTY lacks authority to investigate organ-trafficking in KosovoWar crimes prosecutors for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) lack any authority or mandate such that would allow them to launch a new investigation or revive an old one into allegations that ethnic Albanian rebels harvested the organs of prisoners of war in the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict, ICTY Public Information Assistant Ljiljana Pitesa told RAPSI Wednesday.18:43 12.09.2012
Kosovo organ-harvesting claims may lead to prosecution in special courtAn investigation into the allegations that ethnic Albanian rebels harvested the organs of prisoners of war for sale on the black market in the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict may lead either to prosecution in front of the international judges already serving the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo’s (EULEX), or to the creation of a special tribunal, EULEX Special Investigative Task Force [SITF] spokesman Juri Laas told RAPSI Wednesday.11:48 12.09.2012
ECHR dismisses Stalin grandson's application to intervene in Katyn caseThe grandson of Joseph Stalin, Evgeny Dzhugashvili, requested that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) include him in the Katyn trial so that he could defend his grandfather, but his application was turned down.13:13 11.09.2012
No retrial for KaradzicAccused war criminal Radovan Karadzic’s request for a retrial was denied by a panel of judges for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Monday, according to a statement released by the tribunal.18:10 04.09.2012