A court in the Netherlands has sentenced a Dutch-Rwandan man to life for his involvement in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The 66-year-old, named only as Eugene N, was accused, among other things, of throwing a hand grenade into a crowd of Tutsis who were seeking shelter in a stadium. He was convicted of war
A Syrian court has sentenced ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, after convicting him of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country’s civil war. It is the first conviction against Assad, who fled from Damascus to Moscow with his family after his regime was overthrown in December 2024, ending his
A German court convicted an Iraqi couple of enslaving two Yazidi girls in Iraq. The Higher Regional Court in Munich also found them guilty of belonging to the Islamic State (IS) group. The man, identified only as Twana HS in accordance with German privacy rules, was sentenced to life in prison on charges including genocide,