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Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with allegedly masterminding and leading a far-right conspiracy to cling to power through a military coup. The South American country’s attorney general, Paulo Gonet, leveled the charges against the radical rightwing populist and several key...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk accused Rwanda-backed rebels, who seized a second major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), of killing children and attacking hospitals and warehouses storing humanitarian aid. Turk said in a statement that his office “confirmed cases...

Security forces in Syria said on Monday that they arrested three people involved in the execution of hundreds of civilians by government forces in Damascus in 2013, two years after the country’s 13-year civil war began. Dozens of police and security trucks lined the streets of Tadamon, a Damascus...

The Bosnian state prosecution requested the imposition of measures to stop Vidoje Blagojevic and his four co-defendants – all charged with wartime crimes against civilians in the Zvornik area – from leaving the country. “There is a high risk of flight,” said prosecutor Mersudin Pruzan, citing cases...

In four days of testimony at the Hague trial for former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three co-accused of war crimes, Sylejman Selimi said the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) General Staff “was not functional”. The defense is seeking to prove that the KLA did not have a rigid command structure like...

A prominent opposition figure jailed in Uganda for allegedly threatening state security is unwell and in need of urgent medical care. Four-time presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, who has been in detention since his abduction from Kenya on Nov. 16, is infirm and experiences episodes of...

The secretary general of South Korea's National Election Commission defended the integrity of the country's elections on Tuesday amid claims by impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol that votes may have been compromised. Kim Yong-bin made his remarks while testifying at a hearing in Yoon's impeachment...

A court in Stockholm convicted a Swedish woman of genocide, crimes against humanity, and gross war crimes committed in Syria in 2015 against women and children of the Yazidi religious minority, sentencing her to 12 years in prison. The woman, identified as 52-year-old Swedish citizen Lina Ishaq...

Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday re-opened four cases of war crimes committed in that country during the 1990s. It announced that criminal cases were being formed in connection with war crimes in Morinj, Bukovica, Kaludjerski laz, and the deportation of refugees from Herceg...

South Korea's prosecutors indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024. Yoon's lawyers criticized the indictment as the "worst choice" made by the prosecution service, while the main opposition...