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Norwegian police said on Wednesday they had arrested a man on suspicion of incitement to crimes against humanity in Cameroon, and they sought an Oslo court's permission to keep him in preventive custody while the investigation continues. Police said in a statement the man was in his 50s and was...
In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, Liberian President Joseph Boakai emphasized the importance of establishing war and economic crimes courts as a key step toward long-term peace and stability in Liberia. He underscored the need for accountability for atrocities committed...
The first adversarial trial in Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has commenced, marking a significant moment in the country’s transitional justice process. Retired Colonel Publio Hernan Mejia is being tried for his role in the “false positives” scandal, which involved extrajudicial...
On September 18, 2024, Judge Tomoko Akane, the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and Catherine De Bolle, the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), signed a memorandum of understanding on secure communication and a liaison...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "gravely alarmed" by reports of a full-scale assault on the Sudanese city of al-Fashir by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and called on its leader to halt the attack immediately, a UN spokesperson said on Saturday. Guterres warned any...
In Tunisia, hundreds of protesters marched again on Sunday, accusing President Kais Saied of deepening authoritarianism ahead of the October 6 presidential election. Demonstrators gathered along Tunis’ main avenue, a historic focal point of the 2011 Arab Spring revolution, voicing concerns over...
Swedish prosecutors charged a woman on Thursday with crimes against humanity for acts in Syria against women and children of the Yazidi religious minority between 2014 and 2016, the first time the Nordic country has brought this charge. The woman, a 52-year-old Swedish citizen identified in the...
On Friday, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk told the Security Council that the attack on Hezbollah communications devices violated international law and could constitute a war crime. A senior UN official also told the Security Council that further violence between Israel and...
A year after Azerbaijan’s invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh, a complaint accusing Azerbaijani officials of crimes against humanity has been filed at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on behalf of two of the victims. The complaint, submitted by the legal team representing victims, includes...
Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday, after voters rejected the old political guard that has been widely accused of pushing the South Asian nation into economic ruin.  Dissanayake, whose pro-working class and anti...