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Former Belarusian military Special Rapid Response Unit (SOBR) member Yuri Harauski was acquitted Thursday on charges of enforced disappearance in a decision made by the Swiss District Court of Rorschach. Harauski arrived in Switzerland and claimed asylum in 2019 on grounds that his life was in danger due to his role in the killings of [...]

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Palestinian-French lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hammouri Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against the Israeli tech surveillance company NSO Group, claiming it had illegally infiltrated his phone using controversial Pegasus spyware. He filed the complaint jointly with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Ligue des droits de l’homme (LDH). The infiltration [...]

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The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) announced Thursday via twitter that French prosecutors had opened a formal investigation of BNP Paribas over its alleged complicity in crimes against humanity, genocide and torture in Sudan. The decision to investigate banking giant BNP Paribas comes nearly a year after nine sudanese victims filed a complaint, with [...]

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Several organizations presented a report Monday to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) concerning crimes against humanity committed from 2008-2010 by the Mexican Army known as the Chihuahua Joint Operation (CHJO). The report outlines the murders, torture, sexual violence and forced disappearances of more than 121 victims committed by the [...]

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JURIST Guest Columnist Pacifique Manirakiza of the University of Ottawa discusses the effectiveness of Burundi's withdrawal from ICC...On October 27th, 2017 Burundi became the first State Party to withdraw from the Rome Treaty creating the International Criminal Court (ICC), in...

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