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Gambian dictatorship’s crimes go on trial in Germany

On April 25, the trial of a former member of a hit squad – known as the “Junglers” – under Yahya Jammeh’s rule in The Gambia opens before a German court. Baboucar “Bai” Lowe is a self-confessed former driver of this paramilitary group that he publicly denounced several years before the fall of Jammeh. His […]
By Mustapha Darboe
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Thomas Kwoyelo in Ouganda

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2 Syrian victims and activists demonstrate with signs outside the court in Koblenz, Germany, following the trial of Anwar Raslan

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Colombian army soldiers look at the bodies of dead FARC rebels

Colombia: 21 Army officials own up to war crimes and crimes against humanity

Child's drawing illustrating a group of shipwrecked migrants

Migrants and international justice: why the pressure is mounting

Eduardo Ferro

Uruguay: a law to benefit perpetrators of crimes against humanity?

Claude Muhayimana in Paris (2013)

French Justice Returns to Rwanda

Two riot police officers arrest a protester and take him away on a motorbike

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Riders hold up the Ethiopian flag

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Kazem Rajavi

Why Switzerland is relaunching an Iranian cold case for "genocide"

Rodrigo Granda surrounded by a crowd of people escorting him through Bogota airport in Colombia

Rodrigo Granda: the diplomatic storm that shook Colombia

Several people are sitting in a waiting room with 5 women in the front row.

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An outdoor trial with lawyers, military, civilians and the public standing around

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Hissène Habré, surrounded by police and journalists on the first day of his trial, July 20, 2015 in Dakar, Senegal

Hissène Habré: the lion of Chad is dead