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The European Court of Human Rights has found Russia guilty of systematic violations of human rights in Ukraine’s occupied Crimean Peninsula. The verdict on Tuesday in the first interstate case brought by Ukraine against Russia over Crimea said that the rights breaches starting in February 2014, when...

A court in Peru has sentenced 10 retired soldiers for raping nine teenage girls and women during the country's armed conflict decades ago. The court said the systematic rapes constituted a crime against humanity. The soldiers were sentenced to between six and 12 years in jail. While rights groups...

Banana giant Chiquita Brands must pay $38.3 million to 16 family members of people killed during Colombia’s long civil war by a violent right-wing paramilitary group funded by the company, a federal jury in Florida decided. The verdict on June 10 by a jury in West Palm Beach marks the first time the...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed the suit, filed in 2020 by a trio of survivors, on June 12. An estimated 300 Black Americans were killed when a white mob razed the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. Only two known survivors—Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessie Benningfield Randle...

A new trial against the jailed Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi opened on June 8 in her absence, said a lawyer for the women’s rights activist who has refused to attend hearings. Mohammadi, 52, has been jailed since November 2021 over several past convictions relating to her...

A conservative activist group filed a class action lawsuit against a reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, claiming the initiative is unconstitutional because qualification for the program is based on an applicant’s race. In 2021, Evanston became the first city in the U.S. to implement a...

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor appealed on June 11 for information and evidence of atrocities in Sudan, saying his ongoing investigation “seems to disclose an organized, systematic and a profound attack on human dignity.” ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan released a video...

In a ruling handed down on June 5, the Paris Court of Appeal has confirmed the inapplicability of functional immunities in the case of international crimes. The Court refused to grant the immunity claimed by Adib Mayaleh, who is under investigation for complicity in crimes against humanity and war...

There were "serious breaches" of international law and crimes against humanity were committed during the two-year Tigray War, according to a report released by U.S. think tank New Lines Institute. Ethiopia's Defense Force and allied forces appeared to have committed "crimes against humanity" and...

Hong Kong found 14 pro-democracy activists guilty of subversion in the largest use yet of a China-imposed National Security Law (NSL). They included former lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung and Helena Wong, journalist-turned-campaigner Gwyneth Ho, and ordinary Hong Kongers who joined the mass protests of...