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Ivory Coast former president faces criminal charges

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Laurent GbagboThe International Criminal Court (ICC) has initiated trial against the former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo. This will be the first trial to be initiated by the ICC, since its initiation, against a former head of the state. Last month the Judges of the ICC gave the go-ahead to prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo to conduct investigations into the post-election war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Laurent Gbagbo during the four-month conflict at the Ivory Coast which was set off by Laurent Gbagbo’s refusal to surrender power to Alassane Ouattara in the elections last year. The capture of Laurent Gbagbo in April 2011 by the pro-Ouattara forces had marked the end of the long drawn-out civil war that killed more than 3000 people and displaced more than a million. Gbagbo has been taken to The Hague from Kohorgo in the northern Ivory Coast where he was under house arrest since his capture.

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Anti-Polygamy law gets backed by Canadian judge

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Anti Polygamy lawThe highest Court of British Columbia has ruled that anti-polygamy law already in existence in Canada should stand. Chief Justice Robert Bauman has held that the ban on multiple marriages is actually consistent as even the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms prohibits polygamy. Justice Bauman also stated that the law only minimally impairs freedom. As he wrote in his decision, I have concluded that this case is essentially about harm, the salutary effects of the prohibition far outweigh the deleterious. However, as per to him, the law should concentrate more on as to avoid criminalizing the actions of minors in polygamous marriages. He also said the limitation imposed by the law has limited the harms expected to rise from polygamy which includes spousal abuse, child neglect, and higher infant mortality.

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Accused Oslo Gunman Appears in Court: Norway

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Anders Behring Breivik, appeared first time for public hearing in Oslo on Monday. On July 23, 2011 he had killed 77 people in a rampage on the island of Utoya. He had killed them by targeting young members of the incumbent Labor Party, who were there for a summer camp.
It was the first time when the victims and families of those killed in the shoting spress at a youth camp on Utoya Island were permitted in the courtroom with Mr. Breivik.
At one point Mr. Breivik asked permission to address survivors, but the judge refused. The judge turned down a request by defense lawyers to move Mr. Breivik from solitary confinement. Mr. Breivik has been held in isolation since his arrest, without access to media, mail or visitors. The judge said the media ban should be lifted Dec. 12 and the other restrictions on Jan. 9 The court extended his custody 12 more weeks until Feb. 6.
At the end of the hearing, the 32-year-old Norwegian asked Judge Torkjel Nesheim if he could address survivors and victims’ relatives but was turned down.

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Protest camps in Portland against economic inequality

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The US authorities are still trying to close down camping grounds occupied by the protesters in different US cities. The Police of Portland also gave warnings of arrest in case of resistance of orders to leave the park. The police and the protestors confronted each other on the central Portland, situated in Oregon, one of the US states on Sunday morning.

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International court to probe NATO for war crimes

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NATOThe NATO members who were involved in the liberation of Libya from Gaddafi’s rule may be probed on accusations of war crimes during the Libyan Conflict. The probe will be done the International Court of Justice. The diplomats said action to pre-empt a war crimes investigation would likely include an immediate internal legal review of all incidents in which NATO bombing or other actions caused civilian casualties.

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China claims gas leak mine to be illegal

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gas_leak_mineAs claimed by the state media, a Chinese mine where 21 workers were killed on Thursday and 22 more remain trapped was being operated illegally as a year ago, it lost its license.  The government of China is trying to shut down illegal mines from long time as a measure to improve the industry’s terrible safety record. And due to this measure by the government, the official death rates in the mines has come down from a high of about 7,000 in 2002 to about 2,600 in 2009.  A huge rescue operation is still going on at the mine. Investigators believe a sudden release of gas into the pit trapped the miners. But there’s a conflict whether it was an explosion or a leak. However no survivors have been found as of now.

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