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04.01.2010, 06:13 4 comments

Victims of modern slavery seek justice in France

In France, women who have fallen victim to enforced domestic labor are struggling to bring their offenders to justice and find comfort after years of toil.

Photo by Hugh Thomas "The spanish civil war" 02.03.2010, 10:28 2 comments

Probe into Spanish Civil War’s greatest mystery lands judge in hot water

Spain’s Judge Baltazar Garzon is facing criminal charges for attempting to initiate an investigation into the disappearance of over 100,000 people during the Spanish Civil War.

image from www.icj-cij.org 22.07.2010, 18:34 34 comments

UN Court rules Kosovo independence is legal

The UN court has ruled that Kosovo’s unilateral secession from Serbia was legal. The non-binding decision is believed to have implications for Kosovo and become a precedent for de-facto states seeking independence.

Pedestrians walk past posters supporting war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic in downtown Belgrade on July 29, 2008 (AFP Photo / Andrej Isakovic) 09.04.2010, 09:33 14 comments

Radovan Karadzic gives exclusive interview to RT

After months of negotiations, RT has finally been allowed an interview with wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who is being tried in The Hague for mass murder during the Bosnian war of 1992-1995.

Radovan Karadzic (AFP Photo / ANP Pool Jerry Lampen /  Netherlands Out / Belgium Out) 27.10.2009, 02:10 10 comments

“Karadzic will be found guilty regardless of the facts”

Radovan Karadzic tried to invoke an immunity agreement with Richard Holbrook to prove that the Hague tribunal has always been a political instrument of the US government, says historian and journalist Neboisja Malic.

Rail workers hold flares on October 21, 2010 in Paris (AFP Photo / Fred Dufour) 28.10.2010, 09:01 8 comments

French trade unions remain defiant in face of defeat

French trade unions are still taking people out onto the streets, despite the pension reform they are protesting against being given the green light.

07.01.2010, 09:24 3 comments

Czech Roma still seeking justice for communist sterilizations

A campaign is gathering steam in the Czech Republic for Roma women persecuted under the country's former communist regime, as an investigation has confirmed they were subjected to systematic sterilization.

10.06.2010, 23:00 49 comments

Hungary equates Communism to Nazism

Hungarian lawmakers have passed a bill equating Communist era crimes to the Holocaust and banned denying it under threat of imprisonment.

22.05.2010, 10:41 34 comments

European Court decision on WWII veteran– attempt to rewrite history

Russia’s lower house has harshly condemned Europe’s Court on Human Rights verdict to uphold Latvia’s war crimes conviction of Soviet WWII veteran Vasily Kononov. The State Duma dubbed the case “purely political”.

08.07.2010, 18:14 13 comments

A Tweet too far: US editor latest victim of Internet Inquisition

A CNN senior editor is the latest high-ranking casualty in the virtual world of social blogging where a personally-held sentiment is becoming the ticket to an early retirement and worse.

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Published: 22 July, 2009, 14:15


The world financial crisis has hit the Latvian prison system hard. Inmates have written an open letter to the press, saying their rations have been cut and that they are forced to pay for their imprisonment.

 
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