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A Russian court has sentenced two Russian soldiers to life in prison for killing a family of nine in occupied Ukraine, in a rare example of the country holding its troops to account for alleged war crimes. The entire Kapkanets family were killed in their home in the Donetsk region last year by Anton...
The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions Friday on two generals in Sudan’s paramilitary force for their key roles in the war against the country’s military that has seen ethnically motivated attacks and atrocities. Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday unveiled an arrest warrant against a suspected leader of a militia that attacked Muslim civilians in the Central African Republic (CAR) in 2014. According to the warrant, made public on Thursday but issued in 2018, Edmond Beina is accused of war...
One of Russia's youngest political prisoners has lost an appeal to overturn a five-year jail sentence. Arseny Turbin was only 15 when he was arrested in the summer of 2023. Authorities accused him of joining the Freedom of Russia Legion - a paramilitary unit composed of Russian volunteers fighting...
Murray Sinclair, who was born when Indigenous people did not yet have the right to vote, grew up to become one of the most decorated and influential people to work in Indigenous justice and advocacy. A former judge and senator, one of Sinclair's biggest roles was chair of Canada’s Truth and...
A Russian combatant who fought in Ukraine in 2014 has been charged with alleged war crimes by prosecutors in Finland. Yan Petrovsky, who is also known as Voislav Toden, will stand trial in Helsinki for five suspected war crimes, said Finland's National Prosecution Authority. The suspect—who has been...
Justice Department attorneys wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland this week, calling out the “glaring gap” between the department’s approach to crimes committed by Russia and Hamas — versus the department’s silence on potential crimes committed by Israeli forces and civilians. The four-page...
Bagladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Sunday ordered jail authorities to produce 14 political leaders, a retired Supreme Court judge, five former police officers, and a dismissed army officer before it. The three-member tribunal, led by its chairman Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder...
The International Crimes Division of Uganda’s High Court (ICD) has sentenced former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel commander Thomas Kwoyelo to 40 years in jail over war crimes and crimes against humanity. The sentence was delivered Friday by a four-member panel of judges of the ICD sitting at...
The International Criminal Court on Wednesday said it would sentence in November a Malian jihadist police chief convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Timbuktu. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, 46, was found guilty in June of crimes including torture and...