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Month: May 2025

Guatemala jails ex-paramilitaries for sexual violence
30 May 2025 by AFP
A Guatemalan court on Friday sentenced three former paramilitaries to 40 years in prison for sexual violence against Indigenous women during the country's civil war in the 1980s. The defendants, aged between 53 and 67, were Indige [...]
Reparations for the victims of the Church of France. Photo: A painter uses a tool to renovate a mural depicting several Catholic crosses. Victims of Church abuse speak (Part 1): whether or not to ask for reparation
30 May 2025 by Clémentine Méténier
In 2021, France discovered the extent of sexual abuse in its Church. A commission reported 330,000 victims. Two reparation bodies were quickly set up. Three and a half years on, victims spoke to Justice Info about their experiences with these commissions.
Ex-leader Kabila back in DR Congo in M23-held city
29 May 2025 by AFP
Ex-president Joseph Kabila on Thursday made his first appearance since returning to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Goma, an eastern city seized by the Rwanda-backed M23 militia whose lightning offensive the government accuses [...]
Ex-Radio Rwanda journalist detained in France over 1994 genocide
29 May 2025 by AFP
A journalist at the government Radio Rwanda during the 1994 genocide of ethnic Tutsis was charged and detained in France at the end of April, a source close to the case told AFP on Thursday. The anti-terrorism prosecutor's office [...]
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29 May 2025 by AFP
Ex-leader Kabila back in DR Congo via M23-held city Ex-president Joseph Kabila was back in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday via Goma, an eastern city seized by the Rwanda-backed M23 militia whose lightning offensive the government accuses him of orchestrating. Putting a [...]
29 May 2025 by AFP
Dua Lipa, public figures urge UK to end Israel arms sales Pop star Dua Lipa joined some 300 UK celebrities in signing an open letter Thursday urging Britain to halt arms sales to Israel, after similar pleas from lawyers and writers. Actors, musicians, activists and other public figures w [...]
28 May 2025 by AFP
French court jails ex-Syria rebel for 10 years for war crimes A French court on Wednesday jailed a former Syrian Islamist rebel spokesman to 10 years for his role in atrocities committed in Syria's civil war in the country's first universal justice case. Majdi Nema, a former spokesman of the [...]
28 May 2025 by AFP
Namibia urges reparations at first German genocide memorial President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah repeated calls Wednesday for Germany to pay reparations for its genocide against Namibian tribes as she led the first official commemoration of the atrocity more than 120 years ago. Thousands of in [...]
28 May 2025 by AFP
Namibia: the German genocide of Herero and Nama people Namibia on Wednesday held its first national commemoration of the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples by colonial-era German troops, which was formally acknowledged by Germany four years ago. Here is background into the event: [...]
28 May 2025 by AFP
Russia's drone attacks in Ukraine constitute 'crimes against humanity': UN experts Russia's military has committed "crimes against humanity" and "war crimes" in its drone attacks on civilians in Ukraine's Kherson region, UN experts concluded in a report published Wednesday. The Independent International Commissi [...]
28 May 2025 by AFP
Namibia's president urges reparations at first German genocide memorial President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah repeated calls Wednesday for Germany to pay reparations for its genocide against Namibian tribes as she led the first official commemoration of the atrocity more than 120 years ago. Thousands of in [...]
28 May 2025 by AFP
Political protests paralyse Bangladesh daily life Protests have become part of daily life in Bangladesh's capital, with residents either taking part as political parties jostle for power after an uprising last year -- or avoiding them. The South Asian nation of around 170 million [...]
28 May 2025 by AFP
Some 380 UK and Ireland writers denounce Gaza 'genocide' Nearly 380 writers from the UK and Ireland, including Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan, penned an open letter Wednesday denouncing what they called Israel's "genocide" in Gaza and urging a ceasefire. The letter called on "our nations an [...]
28 May 2025 by AFP
CORRECTED: Sweden charges jihadist over Jordanian pilot burnt to death in Syria Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Swedish jihadist over the 2014 capture and subsequent killing of a Jordanian pilot, who was burned to death in a cage in Syria by the Islamic State (IS) group. Osama Krayem, 32, was charged with "p [...]
27 May 2025 by AFP
Germany arrests Syrian accused of crimes under Assad An alleged former Syrian prison guard has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity under former president Bashar al-Assad, prosecutors said Tuesday. The man, identified only as Fahad A., is accus [...]
27 May 2025 by AFP
Sweden charges jihadist over Jordanian pilot burnt to death in Syria Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Swedish jihadist over the 2014 killing of a Jordanian pilot, who was burned to death in a cage in Syria after being captured by the Islamic State (IS) group. Osama Krayem, 32, was charged with "par [...]
In Gaza, Darfur and elsewhere, the international definition of genocide, as set out in the 1948 Genocide Convention (which is particularly restrictive), has rarely met the victims' expectations of justice in recent conflicts. Photo: Displaced Palestinians returning to the war-torn Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip, 19 January 2025.
27 May 2025 by Alannah Travers
Gaza, Darfur: What’s the point of the Genocide Convention? From Sudan to Palestine, Bosnia, Myanmar and Iraq, the restrictive international definition of genocide has allowed little more than another form of selectively deployed lawfare.
27 May 2025 by AFP
'Kill the farmer' song not a call to murder, S.African president A chant that US leader Donald Trump used to back claims of white genocide in South Africa is an apartheid-era slogan that did not really mean for farmers to be killed, the president said Tuesday. Trump showed clips of an oppositio [...]
27 May 2025 by AFP
Bangladesh top court acquits Islamist leader on death row: lawyer Bangladesh's top court on Tuesday overturned a conviction against a key leader of the country's main Islamist party, who had been on death row since being sentenced under the regime ousted last year. A.T.M. Azharul Islam, from the [...]
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