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Two men went on trial over the 2018 murder of an elderly Jewish woman that provoked protests and alarm in France about anti-Semitic crime. The partly burned body of Mirreille Knoll was found in her apartment in central Paris after she had been stabbed 11 times before her home was set on fire. Knoll...

A United States judge has ruled the United States has no legal basis for holding an Afghan man, Asadullah Haroon Gul, at the notorious US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2007, setting the stage for his potential release. Gul was held for 14 years at Guantanamo without charge and denied...

A 96-year-old former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp has gone on trial in Germany for alleged complicity in the murder of more than 11,000 people imprisoned there, three weeks after she attempted to flee the proceedings. Irmgard Furchner, who was 18 when she started working at Stutthof camp...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued a ruling holding Colombia’s government responsible for the kidnap, torture, and rape of a journalist by paramilitary groups in 2000. The ruling said the attacks against Bedoya “could not have been carried out without the consent and collaboration...

A protest organized by the Hezbollah group against the judge leading the inquiry into the Beirut port blast, Judge Tarek Bitar, broke out in heavy gunfire that left at least six people dead and wounded dozens more. Hezbollah and its allies accuse the judge of singling out politicians for questioning...

Sierra Leone became the 23 rd African country and 110 th worldwide to abolish the death penalty. President Julius Maada Bio, who signed the bill into law, said that the West African country and former British colony had “exorcised horrors of a cruel past” after a long campaign to end capital...

A 100-year-old man on trial for his alleged role as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp during World War II, Josef Schuetz, has told a German court he is innocent. Schuetz is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory murder at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. He allegedly worked at...

A probe into the catastrophic Beirut port explosion has been frozen for a second time after two politicians wanted for questioning filed a new complaint against the lead investigator, Judge Tarek Bitar. Bitar sought to question powerful people in Lebanon on criminal negligence charges related to...

A report by UN human rights chief Michele Bachelet finds some progress has been made in the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). However, the report finds extensive violations and abuses continue unabated in North Kivu and Ituri provinces. UN Deputy High Commissioner for...

Patrick Ball’s nonprofit, Human Rights Data Analysis Group, will be awarded the Rafto Prize, a Norwegian award bestowed on defenders of human rights around the world. Ball and his team have been called in during or after conflict to examine human rights abuses in a long list of countries from...