UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday spoke out against the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo , expressing his shock and appall at at the actions of the terrorists who carried it out. The attack was perpetrated by masked gunmen who entered the office of the magazine late Wednesday morning and killed 12 [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accepted documents submitted by Palestine on Tuesday which will allow Palestine to become a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in April. As a member of the ICC, Palestine will be able to bring allegations of war crimes against Israel. The Rome Statute of the ICC was signed and submitted [...]
The Ugandan army on Wednesday confirmed that top Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Dominic Ongwen is now in the custody of US forces. Ongwen, the second-in-command of the rebel militia group headed by alleged Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony , surrendered himself on Sunday in Central African Republic, after which he was put in US [...]
Authorities in Kuwait on Wednesday ordered the 10-day detainment of former lawmaker Saleh al-Mullah for tweets criticizing the Gulf country’s leader Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and his support for Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi . Al-Mullah was detained Tuesday and held overnight for questioning for tweets sent Monday while el-Sissi was in Kuwait for an official [...]
Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) on Wednesday reached a settlement in a lawsuit concerning the Niger Delta oil spills of 2008. The settlement, totaling USD $84 million, will be divided between 15,600 individuals who will receive $3,300 each as compensation for losses caused by the spills. The remaining $30 million will be disbursed throughout the community, [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday expressed concern over the killing of a man who was a potential witness in the trial of Deputy Kenyan President William Ruto . Meshack Yebei was abducted late in December and found dead on January. ICC Registrar Herman von Hebel said that the ICC “stands ready to provide [...]
Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday signed into law anti-terrorism legislation that will establish military courts for the hearing of civilian terrorism related cases. The president’s signature comes one day after the Pakistan National Assembly passed the 21st Constitutional Amendment Bill and the Pakistan Army (Amendment) Bill 2015 unopposed, securing the two-thirds majority needed to [...]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday overturned the release of terrorist suspect Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi. Lakhvi, head of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) , was the alleged organizer of the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 165 individuals. Lakhvi was detained in Pakistani custody since 2008 for heading the militant group before before being granted bail in early [...]
Bangladesh police on Tuesday arrested Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) , on counts of arson, bombings and vandalism. On Monday supporters of the BNP, the country’s main opposition party, led rallies in Dhaka to mark the first anniversary of national polls, which the group has renamed “democracy killing [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged Congolese authorities to bring to justice those who commanded rebel troops to commit killings, rapes, mutilations and child abductions across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). HRW pointed specifically to the fact that Mai Mai militia leader Ntabo Ntaberi Sheka, whose arrest warrant was issued four years ago, [...]
