In a statement released earlier this month, five UN Special Rapporteurs highlighted the "appalling and pervasive culture of impunity in Bangladesh," over the failure of Bangladeshi authorities to ensure justice for two journalists killed ten years ago. Journalists , Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, were killed in 2021, yet no one has been charged with their death. Sagar and Runi were stabbed to death in their own home, in front of their 5-year-old son. "When crimes against journalists go unpunished, they embolden the perpetrators and encourage more attacks, threats and killings with the...
Several explosions have been reported across Ukraine, as Russian troops launched offensives across the region in the early hours of this morning. More than 40 Ukranian troops are reported to have been killed so far.
Last month, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution, put forth by Israel and Germany, to “reject and condemn without and reservation any denial of The Holocaust as a historical event, either in full or in part.” The resolution urges member states and social media platforms to “take active measures to combat antisemitism and Holocaust denial or distortion.” The resolution was approved by consensus without a vote. However, Israel “disassociated” itself from the resolution. The resolution highlights that remembrance “is a key component to the prevention of further acts of...
American citizen Ross Roggio, 53, has been indicted on two separate charges of torture for the alleged abuse of an employee in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in 2015. Roggio living in Pennsylvania, was previously indicted on 37 charges of illegally exporting weapons to Kurdistan. Roggio allegedly worked with Kurdish officials to construct a weapons factory, which produced weapons for Kurdish soldiers. However, the additional charges of torture claim that while Roggio was managing a weapons factory, an employee “raised concerns about the weapons project.” Responding to the concerns, Roggio...
A former senior Spanish police officer has claimed that Spanish intelligence services knew about the plans of the terror cell responsible for the 2017 Barcelona attacks but failed to act in a bid to destabilise Catalonia before a crucial independence vote. The government of Catalonia is demanding an investigation after a controversial former police officer claimed that the CNI, Spanish intelligence services, knew about the activities of a terrorist cell ahead of a deadly attack it carried out. which left sixteen people dead and more than a hundred injured. Fourteen people died on August 17th...
Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries are currently on trial for the rape of 36 Indigenous Mayan women during the 1980s. Indigenous people were often targeted and harassed by the military government for allegedly backing the left-wing guerrillas during the conflict that took place between 1960 and 1996. In 2018, the five former paramilitaries were arrested along with three others. However, the case was dismissed and the magistrate released them. One died before being released. After authorities re-captured the remaining ex-paramilitaries, two were acquitted. According to prosecutors, victims...
Responding to Russia’s military reinforcement of Kazakhstan security forces to quell nationwide unrest, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has raised concerns over the alliance. The unrest, which began as peaceful demonstrations on Sunday over the increasing price of liquid petroleum gas, rapidly expanded into an expression of discontent against inequality and cronyism in Kazakhstan. Despite starting in the west of the country, protests engulfed major cities such as Almaty, with some demonstrators taking up arms; however, the reason why they resorted to arms remains unclear. Kazakhstan’s...
In a landmark case, 19 Uighur Muslims have filed a criminal complaint with a Turkish prosecutor against 112 Chinese officials accusing them of crimes of genocide, torture, rape, and crimes against humanity. “Turkish legislation recognises universal jurisdiction. Torture, genocid, rape [and] crimes against humanity can be prosecuted in Turkish courts and criminals can be tried” warned lawyer Gulden Sonmen. The charge relates to 116 people who reportedly remain in detention in China and was filed against 112 individuals, including members of the Chinese Communist Party, directors and officers...
President Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia who is leading the war against TPLF. Thousands of Tigrayan migrant workers in Saudi Arabia who were deported to Ethiopia by Riyadh have been locked up in detention camps and forcibly disappeared, a latest Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has revealed . Many Tigrayans who fled their region did so because of impoverishment caused by drought and war and recurrent human rights abuses at the hands of the Ethiopian state. They crossed the Red Sea and reached Saudi Arabia via Yemen by land in search of better economic opportunities. Saudi Arabia notoriously mistreats...
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned following continued mass pro-democracy protests at the capital Khartoum. His resignation grants Sudan’s military full control over the country as they continue their violent crackdown on democratic protesters. Over 50 people have been killed since the military staged a coup in October which initially placed Prime Minister Hamdok under house arrest; the country was just one month away from transitioning to a civilian head of state. On Sunday two people were killed during pro-democracy protests. The leader of the coup general Abdel Fattah al-...