The International Court of Justice in The Hague rejected Bosnia’s appeal to review a 2007 genocide case that cleared Serbia. According to Bosnia Herzegovina’s presidency, the request for the revision of the genocide case was rejected on the grounds that “the decision to reopen the case is not a joint decision of the council members”. …
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A judge has sparked outrage in Italy after clearing a man of raping a woman on a hospital bed – because she didn’t scream. The alleged attacker, 46, walked free from court in Turin, northern Italy, after the judge questioned why the woman did not call out for help. Although she said ‘enough!’ to the …
Israel has made it nearly impossible for Palestinians to claim compensation for injuries caused by Israeli authorities, a new report says, reflecting “how little value it places on the lives, bodies and property of Palestinians living under its control”. The report, by B’Tselem, traces the exemptions Israel has introduced over the years to make it …
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The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday decided to send “urgently” an independent international fact-finding mission to Myanmar to investigate alleged human rights violations in the country, against Rohingya Muslims in particular. The mission will establish “the facts and circumstances” of the alleged “violations by military and security forces, and abuses, in Myanmar, in …
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Israel’s Parliament has struck back at the international boycott movement against the country and its settlements in the West Bank by passing a law barring entry to foreigners who have publicly supported the movement. The measure, passed on Monday night, received little notice in Israel, but by Tuesday it set off alarms in the United …
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Israeli police have launched an investigation after an officer was filmed assaulting a Palestinian truck driver in East Jerusalem. The police authorities have described the officer’s behaviour as “shameful.” Footage published on Thursday shows an Israeli police officer head-butting, kicking and slapping a 50-year-old Palestinian truck driver. “I got to work this morning in my …
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The trove of information on alleged CIA hacking tools released by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks organisation, which reveals that the agency maintains the capability to hack consumer devices, will raise many questions for users and technology companies alike. Everyday consumer devices including smartphones running iOS and Android operating systems, Windows and Mac computers, and even smart …
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The president of the European Parliament has banned the distribution of Turkey’s Daily Sabah at the parliament following a campaign by a Dutch MEP. President Antonia Tajani made the decision Wednesday following an “investigation” upon the initiative of Jeroen Lenaers, a member of the European Parliament from the Christian Democratic Appeal party. Daily Sabah said …
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A Danish consumer watchdog has reported Alphabet Inc’s Google to the Danish Data Protection Agency for potentially breaking privacy laws by not capping the amount of time personal data is stored on Google’s servers, the watchdog said in a statement on Tuesday. Web companies such as Google and Facebook face increased scrutiny over how and …
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“I still remember their last words to me: ‘Please don’t forget us’. This rings in my ears every day like church bells, like a daily call for prayer.” Mansour al-Omari, a Syrian human rights activist, recalls the moment his name was called by the jailer after spending nine months in detention. He was lucky to …
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