German prosecutors on Thursday charged 92-year-old former concentration camp guard Bruno D. with accessory to murder. Prosecutors indicted Bruno D. on suspicion of aiding and abetting to the murder of at least 5,230 people during the roughly one year he spent at the Stutthof concentration camp. During a voluntary interrogation in 2018, Bruno D. admitted [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that sexually explicit electronic communications sent to minors are not private and can be used in police investigations. In the case a police officer posed as a child and was sent explicit messages. A meeting was arranged with the defendant, a 32-year-old-man pretending to be 23. The defendant argued [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet expressed concern Thursday after a Bahrain court convicted 139 individuals of terrorism in a mass trial on Tuesday. The individuals were convicted of terrorism and extremism related to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps. All but one of those convicted were stripped of their nationality. The commissioner is concerned [...]
In a statement issued by the US State Department Wednesday, the US formally announced sanctions against the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) and one of the Bank’s directors, Iliana Josefa Ruzza Teran. According to the statement, the sanctions were issued “to halt the former Maduro regime’s theft of Venezuela’s assets and destruction of the economy.” [...]
Former president of Peru Alan Garcia died Wednesday during an arrest by Peruvian Police in connection with the Odebrecht corruption scandal. Garcia was president of Peru twice from 1985-1990 and 2006-2011. He was the leader of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, a center-left political party in Peru, and is the party’s only member to take [...]
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday vetoed a joint resolution by Congress that would require the president to withdraw the US military from Yemen. In his veto message to the Senate, the president described the resolution as: an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service [...]
The Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday upheld the Israeli government’s deportation order against Omar Shakir, a US citizen and the Human Rights Watch (HRW) Israel and Palestine director. The court ordered Shakir’s work permit to be revoked in response to his criticism of Israel’s rights record. While making its determination, the court looked broadly at Shakir’s [...]
The Egyptian House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a constitutional amendment to the 2014 constitution that would allow President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to remain in power until 2030 The amendment was approved 531-22-1. The presidential term provision provides that the president’s shall serve for six, rather than four, years and shall not serve for more than [...]
The EU passed a law Tuesday to strengthen protections for whistleblowers who report violations of EU law and increase whistleblower reporting to aid law enforcement. The law heightens protections for whistleblowers by ensuring confidentiality in reporting. Unlike previous legislation, this law allows an individual to report to any “competent national authorities” or other relevant EU [...]
Bahrain’s High Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced 139 terror suspects to prison terms ranging from three years to life in prison. The court also revoked the citizenship of all but one of those convicted. Bahrain’s state news agency reported that the 139 people convicted were part of a network organized and trained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard [...]
