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Cambodia’s government has approved a draft law that will jail for up to five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer Rouge. The draft law—which aims to prevent a repeat of the Khmer Rouge’s crimes and provide justice for victims—was approved during a cabinet...

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor announced on Thursday he had requested arrest warrants for two top Afghan Taliban officials for the repression of women. Karim Khan said in a statement he asked judges to approve warrants for the group’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhunzada...

In 1999, South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) denied six security officers amnesty for their role in the killings of four men stopped at a roadblock in June 1985. They were never prosecuted and have all since died. Now, as part of a group of 25 families and survivors of apartheid...

A court in Istanbul, Turkey ordered the arrest of Umit Ozdag, president of the anti-migrant and far-right Victory Party (VP) for “public incitement to hatred and enmity”. The prosecutor’s office highlighted Ozdag’s alleged influence on anti-migrant unrest in Kayseri province in 2024. Ozdag’s...

A Libyan general wanted for alleged war crimes and violence against inmates at a prison near Tripoli has been arrested in the northern Italian city of Turin – and then released after an apparent mistake by prosecutors. Osama Najim, Libyan general also known as Almasri, was detained on an...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is bracing itself for President Donald Trump to launch aggressive economic sanctions against it this week after his inauguration. This possible move has incited fear which could paralyze its work and pose a major threat. ICC officials are preparing for Trump’s...

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was arrested after a dramatic and drawn-out showdown with law enforcement officials. Police and corruption officers scaled the walls of his residential compound, where he had been holed up for nearly two weeks, evading arrest, after his short-lived...

Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the deal told Reuters on Wednesday, opening the way to a possible end to a 15-month war that has upended the Middle East

After a trial in October 2024, human rights activist lawyer Yu Wensheng appealed against his three-year prison sentence for “inciting subversion of state power.” On January 6, 2025, the Suzhou Intermediate People’s Court rejected his appeal. Yu Wensheng’s wife and activist Xu Yan was sentenced to...

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies have been targeting Masalit civilians in El-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, since April 15, 2023. A United Nations panel of experts found in January 2024 that the RSF and allied militias killed up to 15,000 people in El-Geneina. Nearly a year later...