Topic: The Hague
Somali piracy tribunals unlikely, despite calls
Reuters US Online Report World News
<div><p>THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Efforts to establish an international court to prosecute Somali pirates face complex laws governing the seas and national sovereignty as well as the lack of an effective police force, experts said on Thursday.</p><p>In the ...
South Korea North Korea Human Rights
AP News
North Korean defector Jung Gyoung-il, center, speaks during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. A group of activists and North Korean defectors urged an international tribunal to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the North and put its authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il on trial ...
ICC prosecutor asks court permission for Kenya probe
AFP Global Edition
<div><p>The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Thursday he had asked judges to allow a formal probe of Kenya's 2007-08 post-election violence with a view to putting those responsible on trial.</p><p>"I have asked the judges ...
Prosecutors start grilling Taylor at U.N. trial
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<div><p>THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors challenged former Liberian President Charles Taylor over the circumstances of his departure from power as they opened their cross-examination on Tuesday at the first war crimes trial of an African leader.</p><p>Taylor, 61, denies ...
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