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Though a Chad court recently sentenced 262 people to jail after they were arrested following deadly protests in October, the Secretary of Chad’s Bar Association announced Chad lawyers would appeal this, calling the sentencing a “parody of justice.” Around 50 people, including 10 members of the...

Egypt announced late on November 24 the release of 30 political activists from jail, the latest in a series of mass releases from detention amid intensifying international scrutiny over the country's human rights record. Since 2013, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government has cracked...

The European Union will try to set up a specialized court, backed by the United Nations, to investigate and prosecute possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. Ukraine has been pushing for the creation of a special...

Nineteen people were publicly lashed in northeastern Afghanistan this month, the Taliban supreme court said on Monday. "After consideration and a strict sharia investigation, each of them were sentenced to 39 lashes," supreme court spokesperson Mawlawi Enayatullah said, adding that nine women were...

"Today the terrorist groups, emboldened by their success in the regions, are seeking new grounds," Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Tuesday, the second day of the Accra Initiative security conference. He warned that the situation "threatens to engulf the entire West Africa region." West...

British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has told his family in a letter that he has ended a seven-month hunger strike in prison in Egypt. "At one level, a very basic level, [I am] relieved. But at another level I am even more worried," said Mona Seif, Abdel Fattah's sister. "Alaa...

The resolution approved at UN headquarters in New York asks that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) "urgently" weigh in on Israel's "prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of the Palestinian territory," which it said were violating the Palestinians' right to self-determination. Israel...

Israel's Defense Minister has said Israel will not cooperate with any external investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the most prominent journalists reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the past two decades. The U.S. Federal Bureau of...

A group of four widows who had sought to hold Shell liable for damages in the Netherlands after their anti-oil activist husbands were executed by the Nigerian government in 1995 have cancelled further legal proceedings, their lawyer said on Monday. "Obviously this is not without disappointment and...

A Paris court has made history in convicting a former Liberian rebel commander for complicity in crimes against humanity under the principle of “universal jurisdiction." Kunti Kamara was also found guilty acts of barbarity, including torture, cannibalism, and forced labour during the country’s first...