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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...

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...