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Not content with merely campaigning for United States President-elect Donald Trump and urging Germans to vote for the far-right political party, Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the country’s upcoming elections, American billionaire Elon Musk is ruffling political feathers in the United Kingdom as well with an online campaign to free Tommy Robinson, a far-right activist,…
Khijou and Samar al-Khateeb were tortured in Bashar al-Assad's prisons and lost family to the system. Source link
A United States military appeals court has denied an effort by Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin to throw out possible plea deals for the alleged mastermind of the attacks on September 11, 2001, and his two co-conspirators. The deals could see the three men — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi — plead…
NewsFeed The US military has released Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi from the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The Tunisian detainee was never charged with a crime and was held for almost 23 years, from the day the facility opened. Published On 31 Dec 202431 Dec 2024 Source link
Transfer of Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi from the US army prison in Cuba is the fourth in two weeks by the outgoing Biden administration. The Pentagon has released a Tunisian detainee held in Guantanamo Bay since the first day the notorious prison camp opened in 2002 without ever being charged. Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi was…
With the collapse of the Assad regime, Syrians search prisons, hospitals, and morgues for loved ones. Photographer Ali Haj Suleiman, whose father was forcibly disappeared in 2013, expresses longing for closure, and his frustration with the lack of accountability for the crimes of the fallen Syrian regime. Source link
Two teenagers in Hebei given prison sentences over the killing of their 13-year-old classmate in March. A court in northern China has handed lengthy prison terms to two teenagers for murdering their classmate with a shovel, in a case that has triggered a national debate over the treatment of juvenile offenders. Three suspects, all aged…
Eugene Spector, a US citizen born in Russia, has been sentenced to 15 years in a maximum security Russian penal colony. Russia’s FSB security service has said a US citizen sentenced to a 15-year jail term this week was found guilty of leaking biotechnology secrets to the United States. In a statement on Friday, FSB…
Court in southern China’s Zhuhai that sentenced Fan Weiqiu, 62, said his ‘criminal motive was extremely despicable’. A court in China has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month by driving into a crowd, in an attack that raised national concern about mass killings. Fan Weiqiu was venting his anger because…
