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More than 1,000 people were killed with chemical weapons in two attacks in 2013. France issued war crime arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Jeanne Sulzer and Clemence Witt, lawyers at the Paris Bar who represent the plaintiffs, and NGOs behind the complaint, hailed the decision.
French judicial authorities have issued international arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar Assad, his brother Maher, and two army generals alleging their involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity, including in chemical attacks in 2013 on rebel-held Damascus suburbs, lawyers for Syrian victims said
Paraguay's Attorney General Emiliano Rolón announced Monday that statements linking former President Horacio Cartes (2013-2018) to the murder of anti-maffia Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci last year while honeymooning in Colombia were to be investigated.
Chilean authorities in the Biobío region announced Thursday the arrest of at least 11 leaders of the Mapuche Lafkenche Resistance (RML), a radical group behind numerous attacks in the south of the country as a result of the territorial dispute between the state, indigenous groups and forestry companies that exploit lands considered ancestral by the indigenous people.