Hungarian court: WWII conviction moot
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A court said Thursday the 1944 conviction and sentencing of a former Hungarian armed police captain for crimes committed during World War II cannot be enforced.
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A prominent Jewish rights group on Monday gave Germany an "inadequate" rating for the first time for sluggish prosecution of suspected Nazi war criminals after previously topping the annual rankings of 26 nations.
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The US government has agreed to settle a lawsuit with tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust survivors over a trainload of gold, jewellery and other property seized
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British historian David Irving has his conviction for denying the Holocaust upheld by the Austrian Supreme Court.
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The Hungarian government's failure to defend its Jewish citizens during the Holocaust was a sin, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany said Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death ...
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The treason verdict of opposition leader Maia Topuria, now under appeal, is seen as a test of the ex-Soviet republic's efforts to improve its courts.
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The Japanese-American was convicted of treason in 1949 for broadcasting propaganda from Japan to U.S. troops.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The Indonesian armed forces have welcomed an appeals court decision overturning the convictions of four officers charged with human rights crimes in East Timor, calling the decision a vindication of their position that there was no military involvement in the 1999 killings.
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A German court on Tuesday convicted a suspected former Red Army Faction terrorist of helping in an attempt to bomb a busload of Soviet Jews in Hungary in 1991 and extended a prison sentence she is already serving for another attack.
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A Russian court overturns the acquittal of four army officers accused of murdering six civilians in Chechnya.
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A Belgian court found a former Rwandan army major guilty on Wednesday of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers and an undetermined number of civilians in the early days of the African republic's 1994 genocide.
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A prominent Jewish rights group on  Monday gave Germany an &quot;inadequate&quot; rating for the first time  for sluggish prosecution of suspected Nazi war criminals after  previously topping the annual rankings of 26 nations.
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MUNICH, Germany Sept. 9, 2004 - An 86-year-old Nazi war crimes suspect denied that he was responsible for killing 164 Slovak villagers during World War II as his murder trial opened Thursday, arguing he was acting under orders from German superiors.
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The U.S. government has agreed to settle a lawsuit with tens of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust survivors over a trainload of gold, jewelry and other property seized by the U.S. Army at the end of World War II, lawyers said on Monday.
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Judges in The Hague found Milan Martic, who led a Serbian separatist rebellion in Croatia in the early 1990s, guilty of multiple crimes.
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Europe's highest court rejected arguments on Thursday by Greek citizens seeking compensation from Germany for a World War Two massacre.
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The International Court of Justice, the UN's highest legal body, dismissed cases filed by Serbia and Montenegro accusing NATO ( news - web sites ) members of genocide during the alliance's 1999 air raids during ...