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Alla Mousa is accused of 18 counts of torturing people in military hospitals in the Syrian cities of Homs and Damascus.
Crimes Against Humanity
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Unlike his predecessors, Israel’s new prime minister, Naftali Bennett, is unabashedly embracing apartheid.
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Shutting down sources of illicit financing for genocidal regimes and groups would neuter their ability to fund violence.
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Lawyers urge police to lay criminal charges against Canadian government, churches and people who worked at institutions.
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UN war crimes court convicts former Serbian spy chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic.
The epic struggle of the victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, as they seek justice to this day.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations urges Hilton to drop plans to build a hotel on site where a mosque once stood.
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Fatou Bensouda says there is basis to believe ‘the crime against humanity of murder’ committed in president’s drug war.
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Retired military officials will stand trial on charges of disappearing and killing dissidents in 1980s during civil war.
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Joe Biden and Michelle Bachelet among those to praise judges’ upholding of Bosnian Serb military leader’s convictions.
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Former Ivory Coast president to return home following his acquittal of crimes against humanity at the ICC.
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Riyad al-Maliki calls Israel ‘occupying colonial state’ as Israeli envoy slams Hamas at UN Security Council session.
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US, UK and Germany urge China to allow UN access to region amid concerns over Beijing’s treatment of the Uighur minority
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Liverpool and Egypt footballer calls on world leaders to ‘make sure the violence and killing of innocent people stops’.