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GENEVA -- Switzerland's top criminal court on Wednesday convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 20 years over his role in murder, torture and other repression committed by the West African country's security forces under its longtime dictator.
GENEVA -- Switzerland's top criminal court on Wednesday convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 20 years over his role in murder, torture and other repression committed by the West African country's security forces under its longtime dictator.
The uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad — for trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity that he allegedly committed as a military commander in 1982. In a statement Tuesday, Switzerland’s attorney general’s office said Rifaat Assad, a former Syrian vice president, is accused of “ordering homicides, acts of torture, cruel treatments and illegal…
Rifaat Assad, 86, is accused of directing the crimes in Syria more than four decades ago.
Swiss prosecutors said they have indicted former Syrian vice president Rifaat Assad, the uncle of the war-battered country’s current president, on charges of war crimes and […]