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New videos from Syria spotlight conflict's brutality
New video surfaced on the Internet on Thursday purporting to show Syrian rebel fighters killing 11 prisoners they accused of taking part in massacres by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. It was the latest of many grisly videos that have...Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Beirut (Lebanon), Politics, Justice and Rights, Prisons
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Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt guilty of genocide
MEXICO CITY — Efrain Rios Montt, the former Guatemalan military dictator who ruled his country during one of the bloodiest phases of its civil war, was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity Friday for the systematic massacre of more...
Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Politics, Justice and Rights, Lawyers, International Law
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Free Comic Book Day: Image offers ‘Walking Dead,’ ‘Aphrodite IX’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesFor Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, Image Comics is focusing on the past and the present — the publisher ...... -
Fantagraphics’ ’50 Girls 50′ pays tribute to EC Comics sci-fi legacy
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesREVIEW Golden-age publisher EC Comics’ rise and fall was tied to its horror titles “Tales From the Crypt” and “The ...... -
Review: Crime-solving quartet saves the day in 'Bletchley Circle'
Thanks to Sherlock Holmes and his Doctor Watson, we are used to detectives coming in asymmetrical pairs: Your Batman and Robin (superheroes, you say, but their career began in Detective Comics), your Poirot and Hastings, your Morse and Lewis, your Lewis...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Anna Maxwell Martin, Grimm (tv program), Crime, Law and Justice
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Tribeca 2013: 'The Rocket,' 'Kill Team' among fest's top winners
NEW YORK -- A scripted feature about life in Laos and documentaries about U.S. war crimes and a town in the grip of a debilitating drug addiction were among the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival's jury prizes Thursday night. "The Rocket," the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, TriBeCa Film Festival, Turkey, Laos, Movies
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Protests follow judges' rulings in Guatemalan war crimes trial
MEXICO CITY – Contradictory court judgments in the war crimes trial of former Guatemalan dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt this week set off protests in Guatemala City and prompted rebukes from human rights organizations. On Friday, Judge Jazmin...
Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Central Intelligence Agency, Justice and Rights, Politics, United Nations
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Guatemala war crimes trial rulings spur protests
MEXICO CITY — Contradictory court judgments in the war crimes trial of former Guatemalan dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt this week set off protests in Guatemala City and prompted rebukes from human rights organizations around the world. On Friday,...
Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Justice and Rights, Politics, United Nations, International Law
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Civilian deaths in Syria documented by rights group
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.Syrian government forces have bombed bakeries and hospitals and indiscriminately carried out air attacks against civilians, Human Rights Watch said in a newly released report. Such strikes violate the laws of war and should be prosecuted as war crimes, it...Tags: Justice and Rights, Politics, Armed Conflicts, International Law, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Mexico government downplays deadly violence
MEXICO CITY — The new government of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has sought to downplay the deadly violence that has long haunted much of Mexico and that he repeatedly pledged to reduce. But the country's killers aren't cooperating....
Tags: Heroin, Politics, Drug Trafficking, National Government, Media Industry
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Court confirms election of Kenyatta as Kenya's president
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The second-place finisher in Kenya’s recent presidential election accepted a unanimous Supreme Court ruling Saturday that his chief rival, Uhuru Kenyatta, was the rightful winner. The court ruled the election was free...
Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Nairobi (Kenya), Politics, Kenya, International Law
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Rights groups hail surrender of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- In his seven years on the run from international justice, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda became a symbol of the International Criminal Court's impotence. Now the court, which lacks a police force to arrest those it has...
Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Justice and Rights, United Nations, Joseph Kabila, March 23 Movement
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