Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday cleared a policeman of killing protesters during massive protests against the former President Hosni Mubarak on 28 February of last year, dubbed the “Friday of Anger,” MENA reported.
A Libyan delegation left Mauritania on Wednesday without Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, but the Libyan government spokesman said his extradition was expected soon.
Uruguay's President Jose Mujica has accepted the government's responsibility for the death of an Argentine woman during the so-called dirty wars of the 1970s.
The Sri Lankan government's campaign to stave off any U.N. call to investigate its wartime conduct is hampering efforts to heal long-simmering ethnic tensions, according to Tamil politicians, rights activists and clergy members.
Colombia's former Ambassador to Peru entered custody Tuesday after medical reasons prevented him from leaving Peru following his Friday arrest for conspiracy, reported local media.
A Swiss judge is resigning from Cambodia’s U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal because a Cambodian counterpart opposes his investigations of new suspects, a move that Amnesty International said Tuesday shows how political influence threatens the effort to seek justice for victims of Khmer Rouge atrocities.
In a new report to be presented this week in Geneva, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has alarmed the UN and the international community that Nepal could go for blanket amnesty for all conflict-era crimes.
The ruling Saenuri Party withdrew its selection of two candidates for the April 11 National Assembly elections Wednesday amid growing criticism of their alleged “distortion of modern Korean history.”
Prosecutors at The Hague war crimes court said on Thursday after securing their first ever conviction that Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo must get close to the maximum 30 years in jail for sending children into battle.