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The Biden administration has blacklisted Israeli firm NSO Group, accusing the technology company of developing and supplying spyware to foreign governments "that used these tools to maliciously" target a range of actors, including journalists and activists. Danna Ingleton, deputy director of Amnesty...

At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when Islamic State gunmen attacked Afghanistan's biggest military hospital, Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan, in central Kabul following two heavy explosions. The blasts add to a growing list of attacks and killings since the Taliban completed their...

Five women are seeking reparations and suing the Belgian state for crimes against humanity for the segregationist policy that stripped them from their mothers—one that endured from the end of the 19th century to Congo's independence in 1960 and even after. As mixed-race children born under colonial...

A joint investigation into alleged atrocities in Ethiopia found all sides committed grave abuses that may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes in the yearlong war in the Tigray region. The report, a collaboration of the United Nations human rights office and the government-created...

The appeals chamber at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague rejected ex-President Hashim Thaci’s plea for conditional release from pre-trial detention because there is still a risk that he might abscond. Thaci, a former high-ranking former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), had...

The International Criminal Court said it would close a 17-year preliminary examination into Colombia for war crimes and crimes against humanity in recognition of efforts to combat impunity and guarantee justice for victims. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said, “I am delighted to say that Colombia has...

Mahamat Said, a former leader of militia group in the Central African Republic (CAR), faces 14 charges at the International Criminal Court of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The charges include torture, persecution, enforced disappearance, and cruel treatment. Prosecutors have accused Said...

A Munich court convicted Jennifer Wenisch, a German citizen married to an Islamic State fighter, for “crimes against humanity and attempted war crimes” in the aiding and abetting of the murder of a 5-year-old Yazidi girl, sentencing her to 10 years in prison. The conviction is believed to be the...

The leader of the Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia and Colombia's most wanted drug trafficker, Dairo Antonio Usuga ("Otoniel"), was captured. "This is the biggest blow against drug trafficking in our country this century. This hit is only comparable to the fall of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s,"...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte took full responsibility for the bloody war on drugs that has killed thousands of people, but maintained he will never be tried by an international court and would only face a Philippine court and a Philippine judge. The Philippines has come under pressure from...