Eastern Libyan Authorities Round Up Thousands in Crackdown on Migrants

Libyan authorities rounded up thousands of mostly Egyptian migrants and amassed them at the border, activists said Saturday, as Libya continued its crackdown on migrants. 

The migrants were detained in raids over the past two days on trafficking warehouses in the border town of Musaid and other areas in eastern Libya, said Tarik Lamloum, an activist with the Belaady Organization for Human Rights. 

Uganda Says 54 African Union Peacekeepers Killed in Somalia by al-Shabaab Militants

Fifty-four Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union (AU) base in Somalia last week, Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, said, in one of the worst recent attacks by al-Shabaab jihadists in the war-torn country. 

“We discovered the lifeless bodies of 54 fallen soldiers, including a commander,” Museveni said in a Twitter post late on Saturday. 

Haiti Rights Group Decries 'Inhumane' Conditions in Police Jails

Detainees in overcrowded cells in Haitian police stations are living in "inhumane, degrading conditions," the human rights group Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH) said Thursday, with police relying on makeshift prisons amid insecurity and a crippled judicial system. 

Record 142 Iranian Prisoners Executed in May

A Norway-based human rights group says Iran executed 142 prisoners in May, hitting a dark record even for the Islamic Republic. 

The Oslo-based Iran Human Rights Organization (IHR) announced in its latest report on Thursday that the figure is the highest monthly executions since 2015, averaging five people hanged each day across the country during May. 

Switzerland Convicts Liberian Warlord in Landmark Case

The Swiss Federal Criminal Court's appeals chamber in the southern city of Bellinzona upheld Alieu Kosiah's earlier war crimes conviction as well as a sentence of 20 years behind bars. 

Kosiah was found guilty of war crimes by Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court in June 2021 due to multiple atrocities in the first of Liberia's back-to-back civil wars. 

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