Breaking: following
@hrw
submission, Argentine prosecutor weighs potential war crimes & torture charges against Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman
#MBS
who plans to attend
#G20Argentina
Summit
#Yemen
#Khashoggi
Breaking: International Court of Justice
#ICJ
orders
#Myanmar
to halt acts of
#genocide
against
#Rohingya
! The UN’s highest court has recognized their suffering. This abused and persecuted people finally have a first taste of justice.
And it’s UNANIMOUS : International Court of Justice orders
#Myanmar
to halt acts of
#genocide
against
#Rohingya
. The eyes of the world will be watching to ensure the government complies. Bravo little
#Gambia
!
Taking Myanmar to court : It’s encouraging that a small, poor country like
#Gambia
has taken a bold initiative to defend the rights of people 7,000 miles away. We don't see that kind of international solidarity very often these days. Bravo
@Gambia_MOJ
Now - German court opens first-ever international trial for crimes of Yahya
#Jammeh
regime. Former
#Gambia
"Jungler" death squad officer Bai L. accused in killing of editor Deyda Hydara & 2 other attacks
#universaljurisdiction
⬇️
The house of iconic human rights defender
@RajiSourani
was bombed. He is reportedly alive. Hard to get information, no electricity, only chaos.
In 9days, Israel has killed nearly as many as in 5 previous wars agst Gaza. This is not self-defence, this is an unfolding atrocity.
‼️BREAKING. US brings
#torture
charges in Colorado against Michael Correa, a member of former
#Gambia
dictator Yahya
#Jammeh
’s notorious “Junglers” death squad, implicated in numerous acts of torture & murder. An important step for Gambian victims!
When Mohammed bin Salman
#MBS
goes to
#G20Argentina
he may be surprised to discover that the impunity that shields him in Saudi doesn’t protect him in democracies abroad. A prosecutor there is now weighing charges of war crimes & torture after a
@hrw
submission
#Yemen
#Khashoggi
The International Criminal Court
#ICC
has given Palestinian complaints the slow walk for 15 years. Will that change now?
#Gaza
My article for
@thenation
Departing
#Gambia
Attorney General Abubacarr Tambedou stood for justice at home (for victims of ex-prez Yahya Jammeh), and abroad (bringing landmark
#Rohingya
#genocide
case against
#Myanmar
at
#ICJ
). A champion of accountability for atrocities
.
@hrw
is monitoring the US election - as we tend to do in fragile or conflict-stricken countries - to make sure that everyone has the right to vote free of fear and harm and that EVERY VOTE COUNTS
@lettatayler
For the first time, several human rights and conflict-resolution groups that typically monitor elections abroad — mostly in fledgling democracies or places where sectarian violence could erupt — are now turning their attention to the U.S.
#Gambia
Supreme Court (CJ Hassan Jallow) issues powerful ruling denying former Jammeh junta member Yankuba Touray immunity for murder - not part of his "official duties." Applies int'l law, African charter on human rights ➡️
BREAKING‼️
#Germany
arrests “Bai L.” former member of
#Gambia
ex- president Yahya Jammeh’s “Junglers” hit squad for crimes against humanity . ⤵️ thread
Breaking‼️ - German court sentences former
#Gambia
"Jungler" death squad officer Bai Lowe to life imprisonment in killing of editor Deyda Hydara & other crimes. First-ever international trial for crimes of
#YahyaJammeh
regime.
#universaljurisdiction
1/3⬇️
BREAKING: International Criminal Court
#ICC
holds former
#Uganda
Lord's Resistance Army commander GUILTY. Dominic
#Ongwen
was abducted to be a child soldier but as adult committed mass murder, torture, slavery, forced marriage, forced pregnancy. Court rejects “duress” defence
“Tomorrow the sun will shine.” My story in
@AJEnglish
about my father, who overcame years in WWII German forced labor camps, toe amputation from a 600km march through the Russian winter & pregnant wife's suicide, to start a family & find happiness in US
1. Let’s face facts: In 20 years (and almost $2billion spent), the International Criminal Court has never sustained the atrocity conviction of ANY state official (even lowly) ANYWHERE.Only 5 African rebels.🧵 Thread on
#ICC
’s 20th anniversary(1 July) & our "
#Ukraine
moment"⬇️1/15
In two decades of double standards, the International Criminal Court has never indicted a Western official. But a warrant may be coming for Benjamin Netanyahu & the US is freaking out - & threatening the
#ICC
’s British prosecutor. My take in
@thenation
Major decision from German court: if US is to continue armed drone flights to Yemen from Ramstein airbase, Germany must ensure the US complies with international law . Bravo
@ECCHRBerlin
! https://
BREAKING !! - Reported death of ex-Chad dictator Hissène Habré from COVID in prison. For months, we have been calling for him to be vaccinated. Was serving life sentence in
#Senegal
for crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture 1982-1990. THREAD
In 2005 & 2011, I wrote
@hrw
reports on how Bush, Cheney, & co. got away with
#torture
. The
#ICC
ruling, in the face of US bullying, authorizing a probe into crimes in
#Afghanistan
including
#CIA
#torture
there & in other “blacksites” finally offers a path to some accountability
Germany arrests 7 ex-soldiers over alleged atrocities in
#Gambia
during rule of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh Follows arrests of Jammeh's henchmen in the US and Switzerland.
#universaljurisdiction
#Jammeh2Justice
Two months ago my dear friend
@RajiSourani
survived the bombing of his house in Gaza, Today he is with the South African delegation at the International Court of Justice. This is what justice looks like.
“Germany’s arrest of alleged
#Gambia
hit-squad man shows that the long arm of the law is catching up to Yahya Jammeh's accomplices around the world. Jammeh’s henchmen in Gambia and even Jammeh himself in Equatorial Guinea may soon be held to account”
@hrw
#IamToufah
is trending. Toufah Jallow’s courageous denunciation of ex-despot Yahya Jammeh “has triggered a
#MeToo
moment in Gambia with widespread responses on social media, as women began airing their own experiences of sexual assault.” .
#Jammeh2Justice
BREAKING big news!
#ICC
Prosecutor Fatou
#Bensouda
says "statutory criteria for the opening of an investigation [in
#Palestine
] have been met....War crimes have been or are being committed...[A]n investigation would... serve the interests of justice."
Amazing days for justice ."It was stunning to watch Aung San Suu Kyi
#ASSK
stonily listening and to imagine the people of
#Myanmar
(and the
#Rohingya
) watching as
#Gambia
laid out the evidence & UN findings pointing to the government’s genocide"
As the International Criminal Court’s
#ASP22
meets, all eyes will be on the prosecutor’s
#Israel
/
#Palestine
investigation. For 15 years, Palestinian complaints had been given the slow walk (my article in
@thenation
) Will states call for real action now?
BREAKING‼️ After a year-long process, States
#ASP19
elect Karim Khan, British Queen’s Counsel w wide int’l experience, on 2d ballot, as 3d
#Prosecutor
of the International Criminal Court
#ICC
, the flagship position in charting the course of int’l justice over the next 9 years ⤵️
Breaking: Brussels jury finds former Rwandan official Fabien
#Neretse
guilty of
#genocide
in
#universaljurisdiction
trial. 1st genocide conviction in
#Belgium
.Victory for victims, reward for tenacity of Martine Becker who lost sister, brother-in-law, niece
Good news - 6 years after the conviction in Senegal of ex-
#Chad
dictator
#Hiss
èneHabré, the African Union
#AU
will begin operations of the Trust Fund to compensate his victims. Now the hard work begins. background -
On May 30, 2016, thanks to the tenacity of his victims, a court in
#Senegal
convicted ex-Chad dictator
#Hiss
èneHabré of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and torture, including rape & gave him a life sentence. Watch 10min
@hrw
video of trial 🧵 1/ ⏬
Published today❗️from
@ColumbiaUP
“To Catch a Dictator.” In an age of impunity, what does it take to make a dictator answer for his crimes? My account of the hunt for ex-Chad dictator
#Hiss
èneHabré and his momentous trial 🧵⬇️
It’s official❗️❗️❗️
#Chad
gov’t to give 10 billion CFA - $14.7 million (€15.3million) - to African Union fund for
#Hiss
èneHabré’s victims (7396 registered ) - which already has $5million from AU budget . Habré was convicted in 2016, died in 2021. Merci!
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (
#TRRC
) begins public hearings today at 10.00 GMT. As
#Gambia
comes to grips w 22 years of abusive rule by Yahya
#Jammeh
the historic proceedings streamed live at
#Jammeh2Justice
BREAKING‼️ Baboucarr Jatta, former
#Gambia
Min. of Interior admits at truth commission
#TRRC
that the killing of some 59 West African migrants (from
#Ghana
,
#Nigeria
#Senegal
etc) in 2005 was a “state ordered execution by soldiers from State House (Yahya Jammeh)”
#Jammeh2Justice
Breaking ‼️
#Gambia
TRRC report published at . Calls for prosecution of former president Yahya Jammeh and others for 44 specific cases of murder, torture, rape,
#Jammeh2Justice
🧵thread starts⬇️
My news: After 23 great years, I’m leaving
@hrw
. I’ll continue to work with
@ICJ_org
on bringing
#Jammeh2Justice
in
#Gambia
and obtaining reparations for victims of ex-
#Chad
dictator
#Hiss
èneHabré. plus new projects. Stay tuned!
As
#Kissinger
turns 100, some thoughts on whether he is a “
#warcriminal
.”
I’m NOT talking about his larger historic role in great human suffering:
- coup in Chile & support of Pinochet
- backing of Argentine military repression.....1/6
"Identify the Congo killers & bring them to justice" - what I wrote 10 years ago when the
#DRC
#MappingReport
was issued - and 23 years ago when I investigated for the UN - is sadly still true today: cycles of massacres and impunity
Sad to report the death of Khaltouma Daba, Vice-President of the association of victims of ex-
#Chad
dictator
#Hiss
èneHabré - who are still fighting for reparations 5 years after his conviction
Yahya Jammeh treated the women of
#Gambia
like his personal property . But rape is a crime. Jammeh is not above the law. And no woman or girl is beneath the law
#IamToufah
#Jammeh2Justice
Very worrying to hear that the house of Baba Jallow, the Executive Secretary of the
#Gambia
truth commission
#TRRC
which is probing the human rights crimes of the Yahya Jammeh era, was ransacked today.
@TRRC_Gambia
There must be an investigation
[Breaking] Radovan
#Karadzic
genocide conviction affirmed. Sentence increased to life imprisonment! Big day for international justice, huge victory for the survivors and families of
#Srebrenica
and other crimes in Bosnia.
Justice at long last! In landmark ruling, Spanish court convicts ex-coronel Inocente Orlando Montano of sending US-trained death squad to murder Jesuit priests in
#ElSalvador
in 1989. Bravo
@Apdhe
@GuernicaCentre
#Gambia
truth comm'n
#TRRC
resumes hearings today. Witnesses have alleged ex-Prez Yahya Jammeh ordered killing & torture of opponents, murder of 56 West African migrants, & mass “witch hunts” & that he raped and assaulted multiple women.
#Jammeh2Justice
.
South Africa
#RSA
has given our brutish & lawless world a holiday present. Let’s celebrate the possibility of a ruling from an accepted & legitimate judicial institution - the World Court
@CIJ_ICJ
- with all its consequences. Do we believe in the rule of law or not?
In bringing the genocide case against Israel at the ICJ, S. Africa is sending a message to the oppressed, the violated, the vulnerable: go to law for justice rather to arms for vengeance. That's very much the spirit I felt in Cape Town in 1994, working on the TRC draft law.
#Gambia
truth commission
#TRRC
begins hearings on 2005 massacre of about 56 West African migrants, including some 44 from
#Ghana
, largest loss of life under former president Yahya Jammeh. See report by
@hrw
&
@TRIAL
#Jammeh2Justice
Victims applaud
#Senegal
decision to return ex-Chad dictator
#Hiss
èneHabré, convicted of mass murder, systematic torture and sexual slavery, to prison. "He didn't care when it was us who rotted in his dungeons, but we want him protected in detention."
BBC News - Letter from Africa: Journalist Lamin Cham describes his torture at the hands of
#Gambia
ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh's secret police
#Jammeh2Justice
Argentina’s duty under the UN
#torture
convention would be to “prosecute or extradite” alleged torturers on its soil (the
#Pinochet
precedent).
#MBS
#Khashoggi
“We have the power to bring you to justice.” 20 years ago today, Chile’s Augusto
#Pinochet
was arrested in London. My interview how that inspired victims around the world to seek redress
#Hiss
èneHabré
#Jammeh2Justice
#UniversalJurisdiction
I’m inspired by the courage of Toufah Jallow
@Homeofsurvivors
, the determination of Ya Mamie Ceesay, the quest of Martin Kyere, to bring ex-
#Gambia
ruler Yahya
#Jammeh2Justice
They are the real “Dictator Hunters.” My interview➡️
“For years
@ilariallegro
has been meticulously exposing torture and killings in
#Cameroon
, bringing unseen abuses to the world's attention. Rather than stop the torture, the gov’t chose to stop the researcher.”
@stevecockburn
“By discontinuing the investigation of torture crimes committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, the chief prosecutor sends a troubling message about the ICC’s ability to credibly investigate war crimes committed by agents of powerful countries and hold perpetrators responsible."
ACLU statement on
@IntlCrimCourt
Prosecutor’s decision to “deprioritize” investigation of torture crimes committed by U.S. forces and agents in the context of the armed conflict in Afghanistan.
23 years ago Oct 16, 1988, London police arrested former
#Chile
dictator Augusto
#Pinochet
on a Spanish atrocities warrant, a transformative event for
#internationaljustice
and an inspiration for activists and victims. My interview with
@justiceinfonet
A man who should have been prosecuted for war crimes (I tried!). He encouraged and oversaw torture and helped lead the US into an illegal war of aggression in Iraq.
“To Catch a Dictator”out in Nov. from
@ColumbiaUP
❗️“A gripping page-turner about true-life crime on an international scale. The definitive account of the
#Hiss
èneHabré case abounds with dictators, spies, assassinations, and political intrigue” Pre-order
Former US envoy and
#WarCrimes
prosecutor Stephen Rapp says
#Gambia
should establish a hybrid court to try exiled former despot Yahya Jammeh & accomplices
#Jammeh2Justice
Bravo
#Gambia
for taking
#Rohingya
genocide suit to the
#ICJ
. It shouldn’t only be the rich and powerful countries who act to enforce human rights obligations.
Dutch court convicts ex-Ethiopia official Eshetu Alemu for war crimes in "Red Terror" campaign, Alemu's boss Mengistu Haile Mariam now lives in exile in Zimbabwe, protected by ZANU-PF gov't.
Breaking: Argentine prosecutor in Mohammed bin Salman requests info on accountability procedures in Saudi Arabia & Yemen (ha!) and
#MBS
legal status in Argentina
#Khashoggi
#Yemen
#G20Argentina
Following
@hrw
legal brief, Argentine president Macri says accusations against Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman
#MBS
relating to war crimes and the murder of
#Khashoggi
may be discussed during G20 summit
#Gambia
gov’t: US arrest of hitman for ex-Dictator Yahya Jammeh is “milestone” showing “there is no hiding place” for torturers. “You will be caught.” A victory for victims and the long arm of the law.