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International Criminal Court appeals judges Thursday rejected the appeal by a former commander in the brutal Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army of his conviction on dozens of charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity and upheld his 25-year sentence. In a landmark judgment nearly two...

A Lebanese judge indicted five state security members on charges of torture in the case of a Syrian refugee who died in custody. On September 2, the military prosecutor arrested a state security officer and four other members on torture charges before referring them to Najat Abu Chakra, a military...

Indonesia has revised its criminal code, and human rights groups have identified 17 articles which they believe threaten the freedoms won since the return to democratic rule in the 1990s. Though, the new laws will not take effect for three years and can be challenged in a constitutional court. Among...

The Taliban authorities on Wednesday executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, in the first public execution since the terrorist group took over last year. The execution took place in western Farah province before hundreds of spectators and many top Taliban officials. The top Taliban...

A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced both former President Otto Perez and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti, to 16 years in prison each in a graft case years after explosive corruption revelations forced the two out of office early and into prison. Perez and Baldetti were accused of leading a...

Dina Boluarte became Peru’s first female President on Wednesday, capping off a dramatic day which saw her predecessor impeached and arrested for the alleged crime of rebellion. The ceremony took place hours after a majority of 101 members in the 130-person legislative body voted to impeach former...

A court in Argentina, on Tuesday, sentenced the country’s vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, to six years in prison and disqualified her from holding public office again after finding her guilty of corruption during her earlier terms as president. Fernández de Kirchner has temporary...

Though a Chad court recently sentenced 262 people to jail after they were arrested following deadly protests in October, the Secretary of Chad’s Bar Association announced Chad lawyers would appeal this, calling the sentencing a “parody of justice.” Around 50 people, including 10 members of the...

Egypt announced late on November 24 the release of 30 political activists from jail, the latest in a series of mass releases from detention amid intensifying international scrutiny over the country's human rights record. Since 2013, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government has cracked...

The European Union will try to set up a specialized court, backed by the United Nations, to investigate and prosecute possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. Ukraine has been pushing for the creation of a special...