The convicts include Mohd Harmuz Ali, Mohd Abdus Sattar, Khandkar Ghulam Rabbani, Khandkar Ghulam Sabbir Ahmed and Mohd Fakhruzzaman. Sabbir and Fakhruzzaman are fugitives. The other three convicts were present in the court when the verdict was pronounced. The tribunal noted that the convictions for crimes against humanity, including murder and kidnapping, have been sentenced […]
Russia accused the Ukrainian army on Saturday of deliberately attacking a hospital in a Russian-held region of eastern Ukraine, saying it was a war crime that killed 14 people and injured 24 patients and medical staff. There was no immediate reaction to Ukraine’s allegations. Reuters was not able to independently verify the report. The Russian […]
‘total impunity’ The International Court of Justice is hearing allegations that Myanmar committed genocide in a case brought by The Gambia after hundreds of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh to escape a Myanmar military crackdown launched in August 2017. Last year, another civil society group, the Myanmar Accountability Project, said Turkish authorities had launched a preliminary […]
The meeting will seek to increase global financial and practical support to the ICC and coordinate efforts to ensure it receives the support it needs to investigate and prosecute those responsible, the statement said. Russia, which calls its actions in Ukraine a “special military operation”, has denied targeting civilians and other war crimes. Ukraine and […]
In a closing statement at the trial earlier this month, Furchner said she was sorry for what had happened and regretted that she was at Stutthof at the time. Furchner worked between 1943 and 1945 at the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdańsk in present-day Poland. The start of Furchner’s trial was delayed to September 2021 […]
Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami has been sentenced to death for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. Eight charges out of total 16, brought against him were proved, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 pronounces. The three-member International Crimes Tribunal 1, led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim, delivered the much-delayed verdict at 12:20pm on […]