On August 31, 2017, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Edwin G. Torres issued a 93-page opinion that ordered former Panamanian President Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Berrocal to be extradited Panama.

On September 12, 2017, a coalition of international human rights groups submitted a letter to the U.S. Secretaries of State and Treasury, proposing the designation of fifteen persons under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act), which authorizes the President to impose financial sanctions and visa restrictions on foreign persons in response to certain human rights violations and acts of significant corruption.

One of the innovative features of the 1988 Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) was that it dealt with the question of reparations to be made to victims and/or members of their families. These reparations include monetary compensation, return of property, rehabilitation, as well as symbolic measures (e.g. an apology). However, depending on the nature of the crimes committed by the convicted defendant(s), the scope of ‘victims’ could extend to cover the population of a whole area. ICC Chamber VIII in its Order delivered on August 17, 2017 in the case of The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi dealt exactly with this kind of reparation. It concluded that the defendant Al Mahdi was liable to pay 2.7 million Euro (approximately 3.15 million USD) in individual reparations as well as in collective reparations to the community of Timbuktu in the Republic of Mali. On September 27, 2016, Trial Chamber VIII had unanimously found Al Mahdi to be guilty of co-perpetrating the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against religious and historic buildings and sites in the summer of 2012 and had sentenced him to nine years’ imprisonment.   

On August 17, 2107, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced a settlement in a lawsuit against the two psychologists who designed and implemented the CIA’s program to render detainees helpless.  The settlement occurred after the plaintiffs successfully overcame efforts by the psychologists to dismiss the case and a jury trial was scheduled to start on September 5, 2017.

On August 26, 2017, the acting United States Attorney Bridget Rohde of the Eastern District of New York announced the indictment of two French bank managers for participating in a scheme to transmit false and misleading information concerning the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a global benchmark interest rate to which trillions of dollars of financial transactions are tied. 

On August 24, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced that it plans to fine the U.S. branch of the Pakistan-based Habib Bank up to $630 million for a series of anti-money laundering violations dating back to 2006.

On July 31, 2017, the Radicalization Awareness Network (RAN) published a comprehensive manual for European countries dealing with the return of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs).

In late November 2013, the president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, announced his country’s decision to suspend its bid for membership in the European Union in favor of maintaining trade relations with Russia. The announcement led to mass protests and deadly clashes between civilians and law enforcement. Yanukovych, several members of his cabinet, and a group of private citizens allegedly linked to his regime left the country. After the new cabinet took over, Ukrainian prosecutors brought charges against Yanukovych, various former government officials, and other individuals.  Ukraine appealed to INTERPOL in order to locate and arrest the former president and others who were facing charges but managed to leave the country.