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German prosecutors charge Syrian doctor with crimes against humanity
July 29, 2021
A Syrian doctor has been charged in Germany with crimes against humanity, federal prosecutors said. Alla Mousa, who came to Germany in 2015, is accused of torturing at least 18 people in military hospitals in Homs and Damascus after the 2011 uprising. One person was allegedly killed, while the suspect had also tried to make […]
New details of torture, cover-ups in China’s internment camps revealed in Amnesty International report
June 11, 2021
Chinese officials spent days burning documents after government information leaked to global media exposed conditions in the camps. The prevalence of torture and the lengths to which the Chinese government has gone to cover up its treatment of Muslim minorities are described in comprehensive detail in an Amnesty International report on detention camps in Western China. Every former camp […]
Syria refugees to face their torturers in German court
April 22, 2021
Six years ago Wassim Mukdad fled Syria, demoralized and fearing for his life as the country spiraled ever deeper into all-out war. This week, the 34-year-old will come face-to-face with the man accused of running a government detention center where Mukdad and thousands of others were tortured during the early months of the uprising against […]
‘Their goal is to destroy everyone’: Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape
February 25, 2021
Thursday Ziawudun spent nine months inside China’s vast and secretive system of internment camps in the Xinjiang region. According to independent estimates, more than a million men and women have been detained in the sprawling network of camps, which China says exist for the “re-education” of the Uighurs and other minorities. Human rights groups say […]
Russia and West clash over Syria chemical weapons sanctions
January 8, 2021
January 8, 2021 With the Russian government backing it, the Syrian government is still bobbing and weaving to avoid full disclosure of its chemical-weapons program, let alone about its repeated use of chemical weapons such as sarin and chlorine. Read More