John Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old suspected former Nazi guard, was rolled into a Munich court in a wheelchair Monday for the start of his trial on charges of being an accessory in the deaths of nearly 28,000 Jews.
The trial of John Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old suspected former Nazi camp guard, began in Munich on Monday, in what is likely to be the last big Nazi-era case. Demjanjuk is accused of assisting in the killing of 27,900 Jews.
Prosecutors asked Cambodia's war crimes court to hand a 40-year jail sentence to Duch, the former Khmer Rouge prison chief. Duch, who stands accused of overseeing 15,000 deaths, gives his closing remarks to the court.
The European Commission announced Friday that it is taking France to court over its failure to properly treat waste water in over 60 large towns, including Avignon, Bordeaux and Lyon.
Prosecutors on Tuesday repeated a request that Total be ordered to pay the maximum fine for polluting as the oil giant appeals a January 2007 decision for a massive fuel spill along the coast of Brittany in 1999.
Reynaldo Bignone, the last military ruler of Argentina’s “Dirty War” era, is facing trial for crimes committed during his regime’s crackdown on leftwing activists and other opposition figures.
Judges hearing the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic have temporarily adjourned the case. They must decide whether proceedings can continue despite Karadzic's boycott of the trial.
