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The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) indicted former Syrian Vice President Rifaat al-Assad on Tuesday, referring him to the Federal Criminal Court for trial. The OAG accused al-Assad of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity while serving as commander of the defense brigades and commander of operations in the Syrian city of [...]

Russia dismissed arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylash and Admiral Viktor Sokolov of the Russian Armed Forces on Wednesday, each allegedly responsible for war crimes committed in Ukraine. The arrest warrants were issued by a 3 judge- bench at the ICC against the two Russian commanders for directing [...]

The Hong Kong government “strongly condemned” self-exiled activist Ted Hui Chi-fung in a statement on Monday for intimidating government officials and obstructing the course of justice by appealing to the public to carry out doxxing against public officers who handled his case. In the statement, the government condemned Hui for disseminating a list of public [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two high-ranking Russian military commanders, finding there were “reasonable grounds” to believe they committed war crimes amid Moscow’s ongoing war on Ukraine. According to a Court announcement, Sergei Kobylash, a Lieutenant General in the Russian Armed Forces, and Viktor Sokolov, a Navy Admiral, are [...]

Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) held on Monday that a hearing on charges against Joseph Kony, a fugitive Ugandan militant who founded the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), can take place in his absence in October 2024. The hearing allows prosecutors to present their case in court, where a defense lawyer will [...]

Belarusian law students enrolled at European Humanities University are filing reports with JURIST on current circumstances in Belarus under the constitutionally-disputed presidency of Alexander Lukashenka. Katsiaryna Vasilionak files this dispatch from Vilnius, Lithuania.    Andrey Gnyot was arrested on October 30, 2023, by the border service of the Republic of Serbia upon arrival in the [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 5-4 on Friday that Canada’s Constitution protects Canadians’ internet protocol (IP) addresses from unreasonable search. The police are required to obtain prior judicial authorization before obtaining an IP address for criminal investigations, provided by Section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Writing for the majority, Justice [...]

Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova told Russian state news outlet RIA Friday that Russia is prepared to repatriate the remains of the Ukrainian victims of the II76 plane crash in January. Moskalkova told RIA that everything administratively necessary for the repatriation is in place and that she is in contact with Ukrainian authorities about [...]

The India Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Rajasthan state law that provides for a two-child eligibility criterion for seeking public employment. The court held that the the Rajasthan Various Service (Amendment) Rules, 2001, which bars candidates who have more than two children from seeking government jobs, is constitutional and non-discriminatory. With the court’s Thursday [...]

The Fact-Finding Mission of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concluded on Monday that there were no reasonable grounds to determine that toxic chemicals were used by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in October 2017 at Al-Yarmouk in the Syrian Arab Republic.  In its report, OPCW found that [...]