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Month: July 2019

3 July 2019 by AFP
Man dies after alleged custody abuse in Myanmar's Rakhine A detainee in Myanmar's Rakhine state died from injuries allegedly sustained in custody, his family said, as the army wages war against rebels in the same area which saw the 2017 mass expulsion of Rohingya Muslims. Myanmar's army [...]
3 July 2019 by Kerstin Carlson
Al-Bashir and the ICC: is it worth getting your man, if you jeopardise your mission? The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has called for the immediate surrender of former Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir for indictments dating back to 2009. But Kerstin Carlson warns that such a move would require colla [...]
2 July 2019 by AFP
US Navy SEAL found not guilty of murder in war crimes trial A decorated US Navy SEAL was found not guilty Tuesday of murdering a captive teenage militant in Iraq, the most serious of the charges brought against him during a two-week war crimes trial in San Diego. Edward Gallagher, 40, was [...]
2 July 2019 by AFP
US Navy SEAL found not guilty of murder in war crimes trial A decorated US Navy SEAL was found not guilty Tuesday of murdering a captive teenage militant in Iraq, the most serious of the charges brought against him during a two-week war crimes trial in San Diego. Edward Gallagher, 40, was [...]
2 July 2019 by AFP
DR Congo leader says unrest in northeast 'attempted genocide' DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi described bloodshed in a volatile northeastern province as an "attempted genocide" Tuesday, after a wave of violence that has killed scores of civilians and forced tens of thousands from their h [...]
2 July 2019 by AFP
UN expert defends controversial Assange article A UN human rights expert, under fire for a controversial article about the rape allegations facing Julian Assange, told AFP Tuesday he stands by claims that Swedish police sought to "silence" the WikiLeaks founder. The United Nati [...]
2 July 2019 by AFP
UN expert defends controversial Assange article A UN human rights expert, under fire for a controversial article about the rape allegations facing Julian Assange, told AFP Tuesday he stands by claims that Swedish sought to "silence" the WikiLeaks founder. The United Nations spe [...]
2 July 2019 by AFP
Sri Lanka police chief arrested over Easter attacks failures Sri Lankan police arrested their top commander and a former defence chief Tuesday over alleged failures to prevent the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 258 people, spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said. The arrests came a day after th [...]
2 July 2019 by AFP
Sri Lanka police chief arrested over Easter attacks failures Sri Lankan police arrested their top commander and a former defence chief Tuesday over their alleged failures to prevent the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 258 people, spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said. He said Inspector-General [...]
2 July 2019 by Nader I. Diab
CAR’s Special Criminal Court should start preparing for reparations now Almost a year after the adoption of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic, things seem to be moving forward with the recent announcement that several investigations could [...]
2 July 2019 by AFP
US imprisons Rwandan linked to 1994 genocide for immigration fraud A US federal judge in Boston sentenced a Rwandan man to more than eight years prison on Monday for lying about his involvement in the East African country's 1994 genocide. Jean Leonard Teganya, 47, was convicted in April of two co [...]
1 July 2019 by AFP
Trump returns to critics after historic N.Korea stop US President Donald Trump has returned from a historic, impromptu stop on North Korean soil to attacks from Democrats and suggestions of a rift within his administration, with critics saying he is normalizing a nuclear-armed Pyong [...]
1 July 2019 by AFP
Trump returns to critics after historic N.Korea stop US President Donald Trump has returned from a historic, impromptu stop on North Korean soil to a skeptical Washington, with critics saying he is normalizing a nuclear-armed Pyongyang. In the sort of made-for-television, down-to-th [...]
1 July 2019 by AFP
Police chief faces crimes against humanity charge over S.Lanka attacks Sri Lanka's police chief and a top defence official should be tried for "grave crimes against humanity" over failure to prevent Easter bombings that killed 258, the state prosecutor said Monday. Dappula de Livera said Inspector-Ge [...]
1 July 2019 by AFP
Police chief faces crimes against humanity charge over S.Lanka attacks Sri Lanka's police chief and a top defence official should be tried for "grave crimes against humanity" over their failure to prevent Easter bombings that killed 258, the state prosecutor said Monday. Dappula de Livera said Inspec [...]
1 July 2019 by Fannie Lafontaine, Amanda Ghahremani and Catherine Savard
Canada’s genocide of Indigenous peoples: Time for decolonisation On June 3, 2019, after three years of hearing thousands of stories of systemic and structural violence, Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls reached the “inescapable conclusion” that Canad [...]