Tag: Crimes

A Spanish lawyer has formally accused US President Barack Obama of crimes against humanity for ordering the assassination of Osama bin Laden, says The...

A special squad is being formulated to combat street crimes, under which policemen on motorcycles will patrol various small streets of the city on...

Guards at the UN war crimes tribunal removed Ratko Mladic from the courtroom on Monday after the former Bosnian Serb army chief harangued the...

NATO said Saturday that claims by Moamer Kadhafi’s regime that the alliance was perpetrating war crimes in Libya were “outrageous”. Responding to accusations of...

Sri Lanka on Wednesday denied it targeted civilians while crushing Tamil Tiger rebels but said action would be taken if war crimes allegations contained...

The Hague war crimes tribunal appointed a prominent Belgrade lawyer on Thursday to defend Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb commander whose coming trial on...

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, extradited to the Netherlands from Serbia after 16 years on the run, will be formally charged with...

A southern minister in Sudan’s govt quit office on Tuesday alleging “war crimes” in Abyei, as the UN called for talks after northern troops...

GENEVA - The Libyan government's reported use of cluster munitions and heavy weapons in Misrata has caused substantial civilian casualties and may amount to crimes under international law, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
In a statement, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called for a halt to the siege of Misrata and condemned attacks, including a cluster bomb that exploded last week several hundred metres from the hospital in the western city.

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Women Development Saturday unanimously passed the Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Bill, 2010, a private member bill presented by PML-Q MNA Marvi Memon. The bill proposes life imprisonment for acid throwers and a fine of Rs 1 million liable to be paid to the aggrieved.
Under the law, the government would constitute a monitoring board which would take initiatives for punitive actions to decrease the acid throwing

TEHRAN - More than 200 Iranian parliamentarians on Wednesday condemned the "frightening crimes" of Saudi troops in Bahrain and demanded their departure, state television website reported.
"Today the protest shouts of Muslims in Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Afghanistan, even in Saudi Arabia and many other countries are being heard due to the frightening crimes of Saudi occupiers against the oppressed people of Bahrain," they said in a statement. By doing so "the Saudi army is being

DHAKA - Bangladesh has arrested a leading opposition politician after he was named a suspect in a war crimes investigation into the country's 1971 liberation struggle, police said Monday. "The tribunal has accused him of war crimes including genocide, arson and looting. He was arrested and sent to the capital Dhaka," local police chief Mozammal Huq told AFP.
The current government, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, says up to three million people were killed in the war - many

DHAKA - Bangladesh has arrested a leading opposition politician after he was named a suspect in a war crimes investigation into the country's 1971 liberation struggle, police said Monday.
Abdul Alim was detained in northwestern Joypurhat district late Sunday on the orders of the International Crimes Tribunal, which was set up to prosecute war crimes committed during the bloody nine-month conflict against Pakistan.
"The tribunal has accused him of war crimes including

PHNOM PENH - A Cambodian court on Friday handed a British orphanage founder a two-year jail sentence for sexually abusing boys at the home, a prosecutor said. Nicholas Griffin, 53, was arrested in the northwestern tourist hub of Siem Reap last October and charged with committing indecent acts against six boys under the age of 15. Half the sentence was suspended, meaning Griffin will spend one year behind bars, prosecutor Sok Keo Bondith told AFP. The Briton was ordered to pay a fine

PARIS - Violence during anti-regime protests in Libya could constitute crimes against humanity which might need to be brought before international judges, the French foreign ministry said on Thursday. France also called for a UN-mandated mission of Inquiry to be sent to Libya to assess such eventual crimes.
A UN rights council resolution is being discussed "strongly condemning the massive and unacceptable violence currently carried out" in Libya, a ministry statement said, with

SARAJEVO - Bosnia's state prosecutor on Saturday charged a former Bosnian Serb soldier with murder, rape and intimidation of non-Serbs in the capital Sarajevo during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The indictment of Veselin Vlahovic, 42, for crimes against humanity is one of the most extensive issued by the Bosnian war crimes court, said Boris Grubesic, spokesman for the prosecutor.
"The indictment has 56 counts and describes some of the most brutal war crimes committed against

FAISALABAD - The opening month of the New Year was a terrible month for the citizens of Faisalabad, in general, and for the city police, in particular, as the crime figures continue to grow. It was a bad start for the people and the police, but not bad for the beneficiaries of the crimes i.e. dacoits, wanted criminals and robbers.
According to reports, there were 1,364 incidents of crimes in which cash, jewellery and valuables worth Rs 50.05 million were robbed, stolen and