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4/4/2023 2:45:26 PM
French judges have ordered senior officials of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria to stand trial for collusion in crimes against humanity, a first in France, according to court documents seen by AFP Tuesday.
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Africa
3/21/2023 11:32:43 PM
The governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea on Tuesday angrily rejected US claims their forces had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the devastating two-year war in Tigray.
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World
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War in Ukraine
3/16/2023 3:38:02 PM
Russian attacks against civilians in Ukraine, including systematic torture and killing in occupied regions, amount to war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity, according to a report from a U.N.-backed inquiry released Thursday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
2/18/2023 3:39:34 PM
US Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday accused Russia of committing "crimes against humanity" in Ukraine, saying Moscow's forces had conducted "widespread and systemic" attacks on the country's civilian population.
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World
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Africa
9/22/2022 10:26:17 PM
UN-backed investigators said Thursday they have turned up evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Ethiopian government forces, Tigray forces and Eritrea's military _ including rape, murder and pillage _ over the nearly two-year war centering on Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
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World
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Africa
9/20/2022 9:16:57 PM
Ethiopia's ambassador to Geneva on Tuesday rejected a report by UN investigators that accused Addis Ababa of possible crimes against humanity in Tigray, including using starvation as a weapon of war.
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World
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Africa
9/19/2022 9:06:05 PM
UN investigators said Monday they believed Ethiopia's government was behind ongoing crimes against humanity in Tigray, and warned the resumption of the conflict there increased the risk of "further atrocity crimes".
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World
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International
9/1/2022 6:16:09 PM
The UN accused China of serious human rights violations that may amount to ``crimes against humanity'' in a long-delayed report examining a crackdown on Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups. Beijing on Thursday denounced the assessment as a fabrication cooked up by Western nations.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
8/16/2022 9:29:59 PM
Head of UNITAD Christian Ritscher describes progress in collecting evidence against IS militants accused of committing crimes against humanity in northern Iraq to Dina Ezzat
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Africa
7/28/2022 6:22:35 PM
Demonstrators in the volatile eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have called for the immediate withdrawal of the United Nations peacekeeping mission.
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World
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International
6/8/2022 6:18:37 PM
Dozens of rights groups called Wednesday for the resignation of UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, charging that she "whitewashed" Beijing's "atrocities" during her trip to China last month.
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World
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Region
5/3/2022 3:48:00 PM
Germany's top court said Tuesday that it has rejected the appeal of a former member of Syria's secret police who was convicted last year of facilitating the torture of prisoners in his home country.
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Humanitarian
4/25/2022 4:41:40 PM
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor will join an EU investigations team to probe possible international crimes committed in Ukraine, the EU's judicial cooperation agency said Monday.
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World
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Africa
4/8/2022 8:10:43 PM
The United States on Friday expressed alarm over a report that found security forces in northern Ethiopia committed abuses against Tigrayans that amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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World
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Africa
4/6/2022 4:47:44 PM
Security forces and their allies in a disputed part of conflict-hit northern Ethiopia committed abuses against Tigrayans that amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity, two rights groups said Wednesday.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
2/28/2022 11:02:15 PM
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says he plans to open an investigation ``as rapidly as possible'' into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
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World
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Region
1/25/2022 10:22:18 AM
A German woman who travelled to Syria as a 15-year-old to join the Islamic State group goes on trial on Tuesday accused of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.
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World
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Region
1/13/2022 12:38:57 PM
A German court on Thursday sentenced a former Syrian colonel to life in jail for crimes against humanity in a landmark first global trial over state-sponsored torture in Syria.
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World
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Region
1/13/2022 10:31:04 AM
A German court will hand down a landmark verdict Thursday on whether a former Syrian colonel is guilty of crimes against humanity as the first trial worldwide over state-sponsored torture in Syria comes to a close.
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World
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International
11/6/2021 12:35:51 PM
The head of the U.N. body investigating the most serious crimes in Myanmar said Friday that preliminary evidence collected since the military seized power on Feb. 1 shows a widespread and systematic attack on civilians ‘amounting to crimes against humanity’.
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