A Turkish court sentenced US consulate employee Metin Topuz to eight years and nine months on Thursday for aiding a 2016 coup attempt. In a statement released Thursday, the US embassy denounced the conviction. The statement claims that the trial lacked credible evidence to support conviction. Further, US embassy officials stated: The allegations made about [...]

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US President Donald Trump issued sanctions against International Criminal Court (ICC) war crimes investigators on Thursday, months after the ICC approved an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war in Afghanistan. In the executive order, Trump claimed the investigation “threatens to subject current and former United States Government and allied officials [...]

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Militia leader and war crimes suspect Ali Kushayb has been arrested, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Tuesday. This comes more than 13 years after the arrest warrant was issued. Kushayb surrendered to authorities in a northern portion of the Central African Republic, near the border with Sudan. The arrest warrant details 22 charges of [...]

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A US grand jury indicted Dr. Charles Liber on Tuesday for making false statements to federal authorities about his participation in China’s Thousand Talents Program. The charging documents claim that Lieber had a relationship with Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) while chairing Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department. Lieber also headed the Lieber Research Group [...]

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French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced on Monday that France will ban the use of chokeholds to detain suspects. This comes amid worldwide demonstrations against police brutality and racism ignited by the death of George Floyd. The protests drew attention to claims of racism and brutality by French police and gendarmerie, a military force within [...]

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Richmond Circuit Court Judge Bradley Cavedo issued an injunction on Monday, preventing Virginia Governor Ralph Northam from removing the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond. The injunction was sought by William Gregory, the great-grandson of Roger and Bettie Gregory, parties to the 1890 deed in which the Commonwealth of [...]

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Former El Salvador military commander Inocente Montano went on trial in Spain on Monday, accused of ordering the murder of six Spanish Jesuit priests in 1989. Two Salvadorean women were also killed in the incident. Montano was formerly held in the US, but was extradited to Spain in 2017. Ex-colonel Montano was the vice-minister of [...]

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The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Niz-Chavez v. Barr to consider the type of notice the government must provide to trigger the “stop-time rule.” Essentially, immigrants who have a continuous physical presence in the US for a certain amount of time may be eligible for relief from removal. However, the government is able [...]

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A Burundi court on Friday rejected the appeal of four journalists convicted of undermining state security. In October 2019 Burundi police arrested four Iwacu journalists: Christine Kamikazi, Agnès Ndirubusa, Egide Harerimana and Térence Mpozenzi. Each journalist is facing a fine of $530 and two years and six months imprisonment. Their driver, arrested with them, was [...]

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