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Former Senator Leila de Lima on Tuesday said former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte could be held liable for crimes against humanity under a 15-year-old Philippine law in connection with the alleged extrajudicial killings (EJKs) that occurred during his administration’s bloody war on drugs...

A Belgian prosecutor said Friday that the country has launched an investigation into possible war crimes committed by a Belgian soldier fighting for Israel in Gaza. The federal prosecutor office said that the probe focuses on Belgian member of an elite unit of the Israeli military. According to...

A Syrian man went on trial in Germany Tuesday accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting for Hezbollah on the side of Bashar al-Assad's regime. The defendant, identified by the court in Stuttgart only as 32-year-old Ammar A., faces charges including killings and...

A special court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants on Thursday for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others, including her close aides, on charges of crimes against humanity during a student-led uprising in July and August that forced her to flee the country, a prosecutor said. Prosecutor...

The repression in Venezuela unleashed after the presidential elections has escalated alarmingly. The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission published a report on October 15 accusing the government of having committed crimes against humanity in the period before, during, and after the...

Bangladesh’s top religious party leader says he supports the extradition of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina to face trial for crimes against humanity in the same tribunal that convicted his colleagues. Shafiqur Rahman is the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, whose members were hounded, driven underground and...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor said Monday he is renewing an investigation in Congo and focusing on allegations of crimes committed in the conflict-torn North Kivu province in the central African nation’s east since early 2022. Eastern Congo has long been overrun by more than 120...

A United Nations inquiry said on Thursday it found that Israel carried out a concerted policy of destroying Gaza’s health care system in the Gaza war, actions amounting to both war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination. A statement by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...

Five environmental activists who helped secure a historic mining ban in El Salvador in 2017 are facing life imprisonment for an alleged civil war-era crime, in a case that has been condemned by UN and legal experts as baseless and politically motivated. The trial against Miguel Ángel Gámez...

The United States sanctioned a senior leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for “leading efforts” to supply weapons for the 17-month-long war, which has killed more than 20,000 people and wrecked the northeastern African country. Algoney Hamdan Daglo Musa controls the UAE-based...