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Matiur Rahman Nizami waves at students at a rally in Dhaka./ REUTERS- Rafiqur Rahman

Bangladesh Executes Jihadist Leader for Rape and Genocide in 1971 War

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 11, 2016 | World

The head of Bangladesh’s largest jihadist party, Motiur Rahman Nizami, was hanged on Wednesday for his role in genocide and other crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, the law minister said, risking an angry reaction from his...

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Norway Searches for War Criminals Among Asylum-Seekers

Norway Searches for War Criminals Among Asylum-Seekers

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 15, 2016 | World

OSLO – Norwegian police are looking at 20 suspected war criminals from Syria, following tips from refugees and local immigration authorities, a police official told Reuters. Some 10,500 Syrian asylum seekers reached Norway in 2015, a third of all the...

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A rebel fighter in Ratian village, north of Aleppo, carries his weapon after clashing with troops loyal to Bashar Al-Assad on February 18, 2015. (Reuters/Ammar Abdullah)

UN investigators to publish Syria war crimes suspect names

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 21, 2015 | Middle East

Geneva, Reuters—United Nations war crimes investigators plan to publish names of suspects involved in Syria’s four-year war and push for new ways to bring them to justice, in a radical change of strategy announced on Friday. Diplomatic sources said the...

UN evidence on Syria war crimes implicates Assad, Pillay says

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 2, 2013 | Middle East

Geneva, Reuters—Evidence collected by UN investigators probing Syrian war crimes implicates President Bashar Al-Assad, United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Monday. Pillay later denied having direct knowledge of their secret list of suspects, but her...

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EU election observers during a press conference in Laplje Selo 16km south of Kosovo capital Pristina on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 (AP).

EU in Kosovo indicts 15 for war crimes

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 8, 2013 | World

Pristina, Kosovo, AP—A European Union prosecutor on Friday indicted 15 former ethnic Albanian rebels suspected of torturing, mistreating and killing civilians detained in central Kosovo during the 1998-1999 war against Serbia. Many of those indicted are members of the...