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24 Aug

Libya has set a date for the trial of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, despite the calls for him to be tried at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. More from Jurist can be found here. Israel claimed that South Africa is acting like an “apartheid state” with its new move to mark goods coming from the West Bank with made in the Israel-Occupied Territories labels. Justice in Conflict covers the best evidence that LRA leader Joseph Kony may be in Darfur. The Taliban can be traced to up to 25%...
24.08.12 | |

19 Sep

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will join 37 former regime members in a pre-trial session in Tripoli over charges of murder and crimes allegedly committed during 2011 civil war. Despite Russia’s claims that the UN report on chemical weapons in Syria is biased, the UN claims the evidence that rockets were used containing sarin gas is indisputable. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has pledged to destroy his stockpile of chemical arms but said it would take one year to do so and will cost about $1 billion. Police in Singapore have arrested 14...
19.09.13 | |

10 Sep

...terrorist organization. Palestinians are looking to amend the economic agreement they have with Israel in the wake of street protests against high prices. The Libyan trial against Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will now be delayed five months in light of the recent extradition of Abdullah al-Senussi from Mauritania to Libya and the relevant information that may come from his interrogation. Though they will not accept the government of Hamid Karzai, some Taliban leaders are ready to negotiate a comprehensive peace plan in Afghanistan. In other Taliban news, the group has threatened...
10.09.12 | |

15 Mar

...in absentia proceedings by the Ukrainian authorities in relation to the two generals, this does not render the potential cases inadmissible before the ICC. In the Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi case, ICC Appeals Chamber declared that the decision of a national jurisdiction should have acquired res judicata effect in order for the case to be inadmissible before the ICC (Judgment, para. 63). First, it appears that neither of the two cases initiated by the Ukrainian authorities surpassed the pre-trial stage. Second, even if the verdicts had been delivered by the Ukrainian...
15.03.24 | |

01 Aug

Fighting rages on in Syria’s Aleppo, trapping many citizens inside the embattled city. The tens of thousands who have managed to escape have become refugees, many struggling to find shelter and food. Libya’s Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is seeking a trial in The Hague at the ICC, rather than in Lybia. His lawyers say a fair trial in his home country is impossible. Foreign Policy outlines how the Taliban financially benefits from the reopening of NATO supply routes between Afghanistan and Pakistan; estimates from 2010 show $360 million falling into the...
01.08.12 | |

10 Oct

...European Parliament has included the punk band on its list of finalists for the annual Sakharov human rights prize. Scotland will hold an independence referendum in 2014, according to a British government minister, whereas Spain’s parliament voted yesterday to block Catalonia’s bid for sovereignty. Russia has signed a $4.2 billion arms deal with Iraq, making it the largest arms provider to the Middle East after the United States. Libyan government lawyers promised yesterday at a hearing at the ICC that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will get a fair trial in Libya....
10.10.12 | |

13 Apr

...Office of Public Counsel for the Defense, has asked the court to report Libya to the U.N. Security Council over its failure to extradite Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to The Hague. ECOWAS has condemned what it called an attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau after reports emerged of soldiers taking control of a central area of the country’s capital ahead of a planned runoff election, slated for April 29th. Mali’s new President has vowed total war against the Tuareg rebels in the north. At the Summit of Americas, taking place this weekend in...
13.04.12 | |

13 Sep

...Saif Gaddafi, and Charles Taylor will be so relieved! (Junger obviously has absolutely no idea what a crime against humanity is — and, apparently, no interest in finding out. Probably because doing so might undermine his claim that the noble thing to do is intervene in a civil war after 100,000 innocent civilians have been murdered. It’s like the Eddie Izzard line: “after a couple of years, we won’t stand for that…”) (And no, it’s not “essentially one person at a time.” Junger might want to read something about the...
13.09.13 | |

05 May

...three first impressions from a recent conference at the US Naval Academy on the Ethics of Military Cyber Operations. Further on novel military operations, Ken Anderson posted a summary of his recent article, co-authored with Matthew Waxman, on the Law and Ethics for Robot Soldiers. Kevin Heller welcomed Communis Hostis Omnium, a blog on maritime piracy, to the blogosphere. He posted on Benjamin Netanyahu’s terrible week and analysed Libya’s challenge of the admissibility of the ICC cases against Gaddafi and Al-Senussi. He then addressed the question, raised in the comments...
05.05.12 | |

05 Oct

Despite high rhetoric being flung across the Security Council yesterday, Russia and China’s vetoing of the European-drafted resolution condemning Syria’s brutal crackdown on civilians should come as no surprise. There are a number of political-tuned reasons to explain why this Resolution failed. The first relates to the disappointment and anger expressed by China and Russia at the intervention in Libya. Both have largely been shut out of any post-Gaddafi economic windfall and it is quite clear that they did not want to see a repeat performance. Second, unlike the case...
05.10.11 | |

23 Mar

In a post today at Commentary, Boot argues that Taylor’s arrest after going into exile makes it more likely that Gaddafi will fight to the death instead of negotiating a gracious exit from power: Once upon a time, an autocrat could step down and live out his days securely in the south of France or some other plush locale. That option still exists for some; for instance Tunisia’s deposed strongman, Ben Ali, is now in Saudi Arabia. Maybe he’s even taken over Idi Amin’s old villa. But Qaddafi is a...
23.03.11 | |

22 Aug

While the world waits to learn the fate of embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the trial of another former Mid East Leader, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, is currently underway. In terms of international interest, Mubarak may be no Gaddafi. But since the Mubarak trial concerns the former President of a strategicly important country charged with ordering the killing of unarmed protesters challenging his rule, it has the potential to rank with some of the most important world trials of all time — Goering, Eichmann, Ceausescu, Milosevic, Saddam. On the...
22.08.11 | |