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From a detailed multi-perspectival drawing of reindeer to written accounts of belief systems and childbirth, Johan Turi’s work offers unparalleled insight into his life as a Sami person living in northern Sweden at the start of the 20th century. In the face of racist discrimination, land disputes...

A 105-year-old man is under investigation on suspicion of being an accessory to multiple murders at a Nazi prisoner of war camp, German prosecutors have said. The case, which is being handled by the public prosecutor’s office in Dortmund, centers on the Stalag 326 VI K camp in western Germany, in...

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted rebel commander Mahamat Said Abdel Kani on Wednesday of crimes against humanity for abusing and torturing prisoners at a detention facility in the Central African Republic. Said, wearing blue jeans and a sweater, remained expressionless for...

A former Rwandan official has appeared in a court in the United Kingdom after being charged with ordering six killings during the first week of the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Vincent Brown, a 65-year-old doctor formerly known as Vincent Bajinya, is the first ⁠person to be charged in Britain over the...

A Sri Lankan court found 15 men guilty on Tuesday of involvement in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed more than 260 people and wounded about 500. The April 21 attacks targeted three churches and three hotels across the island nation during Easter services and celebrations. The Islamic...

An Islamic State group member was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison for aiding the terrorist organization that took credit for a suicide bombing that killed 13 US service members and about 160 Afghans at the Kabul airport five years ago during the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from...

Demonstrators in Pristina against the verdict convicting four former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leaders of war crimes resumed their protest at around noon on Thursday after continuing until around midnight on Wednesday, the day the judgment was handed down in The Hague. The KLA Veterans’...

Former Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte, has appeared in person for the first time at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he is charged with crimes against humanity for killings during his “war on drugs”. Prosecutors accuse Duterte — who was arrested and transferred to The Hague-based...

Iranian security forces “coordinated” the killing, torture, and sexual abuse of hundreds of people who took part in the women-led nationwide protests in September 2022, according to leaked state documents and interviews. Tens of thousands of people, including children, took to the streets of towns...

Kosovo’s former head of state Hashim Thaci was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague on Wednesday for the war crimes of arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, torture, and murder, committed from April 1998 to June 1999 during the Kosovo war. “In the names of...