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Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said Friday that his government would submit legislation to repeal a law by former president Macky Sall granting amnesty for deadly political violence. The controversial amnesty was granted just before March 2024 elections as Sall sought to calm protests...

Hong Kong authorities have placed bounties on six pro-democracy activists accused of harming national security in the latest crackdown to highlight the narrowing space for dissent in the financial hub. The announcement by police is the third time authorities have offered rewards of 1 million Hong...

An advocacy group has initiated legal action in Argentina and Chile, urging the countries to arrest an Israeli soldier for war crimes in Gaza. The cases filed in Argentina and Chile cite both national and international legal obligations. They come among a wider effort by the Belgium-based Hind Rajab...

Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination. "This policy, inflicted as part of a mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, means Israeli authorities...

Syria’s new rulers have pledged to create special tribunals for those who have “committed crimes against Syrians” under deposed President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, according to the interim government’s spokesman. In an interview with Al Jazeera’s Osama bin Javaid, Obaid Arnaut said a key part of the...

An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013. Speaking after visiting...

Israel says it will close its embassy in Ireland, citing Dublin’s recognition of a Palestinian state and support for South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its actions in Gaza. “The decision to close Israel’s embassy in Dublin was made in light of...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has been impeached by the National Assembly over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, a move that plunged South Korea into political turmoil halfway through his presidency. The unicameral National Assembly voted 204 to 85 on Saturday to impeach Yoon...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has announced that his office is starting to resume its activities in Venezuela, despite past clashes with the government of President Nicolas Maduro. High Commissioner Volker Turk made the announcement on December 13 at a meeting with the UN...

Authorities in two states in southern Mexico arrested more than 100 local police officers Monday for various abuses and offenses, adding to the long list of police corruption scandals in the country. In the largest of the two incidents, 92 municipal police officers in the southern state of Chiapas...