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Byline: David Bruckmeier Contributor Abstract: For decades, Gambia's dictator and his henchmen were untouchable. Now international courts are offering their victims a new path to justice. Deyda Hydara had just [...]

Byline: Danielle Paquette BANJUL, Gambia - She had wondered for years how her son died. Then the confession came on YouTube. 'Chopped into pieces,' said a former hit man, who [...]

BUENOS AIRES -- A court in Argentina on Tuesday convicted two former Ford Motor executives and sentenced them to prison for helping the country's military dictators kidnap and torture 24 [...]

Byline: James McAuley PARIS - A panel of French judges placed former President Nicolas Sarkozy under formal investigation late Wednesday for allegedly accepting bribes and illegal campaign financing, and misappropriating [...]

THE HAGUE -- A court in the Netherlands on Friday convicted an aide to a former Ethiopian dictator and sentenced him to life in prison for war crimes carried out [...]

Byline: Paul Schemm ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Cheers erupted Monday in a Senegalese courtroom as the Extraordinary African Chambers convicted former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre of crimes against humanity and [...]

DAKAR, Sénégal -- La semaine dernière, les acteurs du procès de Hissène Habré se sont retrouvés ici pour leurs plaidoiries finales devant les Chambres africaines extraordinaires (CAE), un tribunal créé [...]

Byline: Anna-Catherine Brigida Massive protests against corruption last summer brought a celebratory sense of empowerment in Guatemala. Yet the country is still waiting for a similar cathartic release when it [...]

A Peruvian judge has ordered the former military dictator Francisco Morales Bermdez to stand trial in the 1978 abductions of 13 opponents. He is suspected of having the 13, including [...]

MEXICO CITY -- A Guatemalan court ruled on Tuesday that the former dictator Gen. Efran Ros Montt must face a new genocide trial in the persecution of the Maya Ixil [...]

Government-backed experts have said the former Guatemalan dictator Jos Efran Rios Montt, 89, is mentally incompetent. A three-judge panel must now decide if a trial set for July 23 will [...]

Byline: Louisa Loveluck An Egyptian court has ordered the release of former President Hosni Mubarak's jailed sons, just days before the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that overthrew the longtime [...]

MEXICO CITY -- Guatemala's highest court on Monday threw out the genocide conviction and prison sentence of the former dictator Gen. Efran Ros Montt. The decision by Guatemala's Constitutional Court [...]

THE conviction last Friday of the former Guatemalan dictator Efran Ros Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity is of monumental significance. It was the first time in [...]

GUATEMALA CITY -- Gen. Efran Ros Montt, the former dictator who ruled Guatemala during one of the bloodiest periods of its long civil war, faced the court trying him for [...]

The genocide trial of a former dictator of Guatemala, Gen. Efran Ros Montt, resumed Tuesday, 12 days after a judge ruled to annul the court proceedings. Guatemala's highest court has [...]

Byline: Sibylla Brodzinsky An easy smile spreads over lawyer Edwin Canil's face when he talks about the satisfaction of helping build the genocide and war crimes case against former Guatemalan [...]

MEXICO CITY -- A Guatemalan judge on Thursday annulled the genocide trial against the former dictator Gen. Efran Ros Montt, a stunning ruling that could force prosecutors to begin the [...]

Byline: Romina Ruiz-Goiriena Uncertainty loomed in Guatemala early Friday morning as hundreds of indigenous Ixils made their way into the Supreme Court to demand justice. In an unprecedented turn of [...]

Byline: Romina Ruiz-Goiriena Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt is the first Latin American strongman to be tried on genocide charges. The landmark case has garnered worldwide attention, presented expert [...]

MEXICO CITY -- They were just children when Guatemalan soldiers rampaged through their villages, often killing their parents and siblings. Many fled to mountain forests, where they foraged for food [...]

SEOUL, South Korea -- Three emergency decrees issued in the 1970s by South Korea's dictator at the time, Park Chung-hee, were unconstitutional, the nation's Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday, in [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Jean-Claude Duvalier, the former dictator known as Baby Doc accused of bearing responsibility for the deaths, torture and the disappearance of hundreds of people, walked into a [...]

MEXICO CITY -- A Guatemalan judge on Monday ordered Efran Rios Montt, the former dictator, and his intelligence chief to stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity [...]

Byline: Betsy Hiel June 03--CAIRO -- A judge sentenced Hosni Mubarak to life in prison on Saturday, 15 months after protesters forced him from Egypt's presidency. In power for 30 [...]

PARIS -- International judges in The Hague are hearing a complex case this week that boils down to a single and unusual question: which country has the right to try [...]

Byline: AP THE BRIEFING / SHORTS Port-au-Prince -- The former Haitian dictator known as 'Baby Doc' has been summoned to court Friday to be scolded for violating the terms of [...]

Judge Baltasar Garzon, who gained renown by indicting the former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet in 1998, went on trial Tuesday over his handling of a corruption investigation and denied [...]

Byline: Reuters THE BRIEFING / SHORTS Paris -- A French court on Wednesday ruled former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega could be extradited to the country he once ruled, where he [...]

Minneapolis TIME is running out for former government officials accused of murder, genocide and crimes against humanity. In the past few months, the final Serbian war-crimes fugitives were extradited to [...]

Los Angeles LIBYA'S rebel leaders say they want to try Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, if and when he is captured, in Libyan courts. In principle, Libyans deserve the satisfaction that only [...]

CAIRO -- The headlines of newspapers on sale in a subway station once called Mubarak, and now renamed Martyrs', captured the moment Tuesday that could prove one of the most [...]

Haiti's troubles turned even more surreal over the weekend when the former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as Baby Doc, showed up in Port-au-Prince after nearly 25 years of exile. After [...]

A court in Paris on Wednesday rejected a request for the release of the imprisoned former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega, who is serving a prison term in France after [...]

Russia's Parliament on Friday approved a statement holding Stalin responsible for ordering the 1940 murder of more than 20,000 Polish officers in a forest near the village of Katyn. Against [...]

Prosecutors requested the maximum 10-year prison sentence on Wednesday for Manuel Noriega, the former Panamanian dictator convicted of laundering drug money. Mr. Noriega had been sentenced to 10 years on [...]