Search Results for: 2002-12-12

Leader of the UK’s Liberal Democrat Party Sir Ed Davey called upon the UK government on Wednesday to suspend arms sales to Israel. This follows the deaths of British aid workers John Chapman, James Kirby and Jim Henderson, who were among the seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) workers killed in an “unintended strike” by the [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered Dominic Ongwen, a former commander of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), to pay $56 million in reparations Wednesday to several thousand victims of crimes against humanity. Ongwen was charged with committing crimes against humanity and war crimes in Northern Uganda between July 2002 and December 2005 as a commander [...]

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned on Saturday domestic neo-Nazi activity after a group of masked men boarded a Sydney train on Australia Day. Three police operations into neo-Nazi demonstrations were conducted across Sydney over the weekend amidst a recent rise in neo-Nazi, antisemitic and extremist right-wing incidents. On Friday morning, about 61 men masked [...]

The current conflict engulfing Israel and Palestine raises significant issues of international law and policy. This is part one in an anticipated two-part series that will discuss some of the relevant legal questions before the International Criminal Court (ICC; Part I) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ; Part II).  With both courts located in [...]

The governments of Mexico and Chile released a joint statement Thursday calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to look into possible crimes occurring in Gaza amidst the Israel-Hamas war. The countries urged the ICC to investigate due to the escalating violence against civilians since Hamas’s October 7 attacks. They further explained that ICC intervention [...]

Two filmmakers of a film banned in Malaysia were charged on Wednesday with “hurting religious feelings” due to the contents of their film. Nine human rights organizations have condemned the criminal charges as breaches of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. The film, Mentega Terbang, debuted at a film festival in 2021. It [...]

A group of international human rights organizations sent a letter to US President Joe Biden Wednesday calling for the US, one of Israel’s most vocal international allies and supplier of weapons, to facilitate stronger protections for journalists and freedom of the press in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas War. The letter, signed by the Committee to [...]

India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) reportedly summoned Farooq Abdullah on Thursday on allegations of misappropriation of funds from the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA). Farooq Abdullah is the former chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. The ED had provisionally attached a residential property worth Rs 7.25 Crore under the Prevention of [...]

TRIAL International informed on Thursday that Ousman Sonko, a former Gambian Minister of Interior, will be tried by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) in Bellinzona on January 8, 2024, and the trial will last till January 30. The former minister will be tried for crimes against humanity committed by him under ousted Gambian dictator Yahya [...]

The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko assented on Wednesday to comprehensive amendments to the law “On the President of the Republic of Belarus,” which tightened the requirements for a presidential candidate within the country. Under the amended law, only a person aged 40 years or older, who is a citizen of the Republic of Belarus by [...]