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Iranian president suspected of crimes against humanity

30 June 2021

Javaid Rehman, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, formally called for an investigation into the massacre of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 in Iran and the role allegedly played by the new president, Ebrahim. Raisi.
At (…)

Turkish reaction to US recognition of the Armenian genocide

by Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

Ankara (Turkey) | 24 April 2021

We reject and denounce in the strongest terms the statement of the President of the US regarding the events of 1915 made under the pressure of radical Armenian circles and anti-Turkey groups on 24 April.
It is clear that the said statement does not have a scholarly and legal basis, nor is it (…)

Association aiming to judge President al-Assad exposed as a fraud

16 April 2021

A sting operation was mounted against the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda, and Media of Professor Tim Hayward (director of the Just World Institute at the University of Edinburgh) [1].
It was spearheaded by the Commission for International Justice and Accountability - CIJA; an association (…)

The deception of international penal Justice

The ICC intends to violate the decision of the Security Council and try Bachar el-Assad

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 12 March 2019

Everyone believed it to be impossible for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to try the Syrians, since China and Russia exercised their vetos against a Western draft resolution to do so. But no! A piece of legal sleight of hand may make it possible to dodge the decision of the Security (…)

Washington takes heat off President Bashar al-Assad

2 December 2014

The State Department has cut its funding to the Syria Justice and Accountability Center (SJAC) that it set up in the Hague in 2013 with a view to prosecuting Syrian President Bashar Assad for crimes against humanity.
For the past two years, the SJAC has collected evidence of crimes attributed (…)

Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam

by Marjorie Cohn

16 June 2009

More than 30 years afte the end of the Vietnam War, it is time to make good on Nixon’s promise and remedy the terrible wrong the U.S. government perpetrated on the people of Vietnam . Congress must pass legislation to compensate the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange as it did for the U.S. (…)

The International Court of Justice Dismisses the Dossier on Gbagbo, but detains him

5 June 2003

The pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court has deferred the hearing on the confirmation of the evidence against the former President of the Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo. The pre-trial chamber dismissed the dossier compiled by the former prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, that was (…)