Tag: prosecuted

27 AUG

UN investigators says Myanmar military chiefs should be prosecuted for genocide

Top Myanmar military leaders should be prosecuted for genocide against Rohingya Muslims, investigators working for the UN’s top human rights body said on Monday. The call, accompanying a first report by the investigators, amounts to some of the strongest language yet from UN officials. They have denounced alleged human rights violations in Myanmar since a […]

23 JUL

White Helmets must be tracked down & prosecuted for ‘war crimes’ – Syria’s Grand Mufti

Russia and Syria must hunt down and prosecute members of the White Helmets for “war crimes,” Syria’s Grand Mufti has said shortly after Israel “evacuated” a large number of the group’s members at the request of the US and Canada. “These people are not refugees. They are war criminals. I’d like to ask the governments […]

16 NOV

I’m A Celebrity 2017: Former star reveals contestants could be PROSECUTED if they do this

And ahead of their entrance into the camp, they will be issued with a number of rules to adhere to.  Former contestant Michael Buerk, who appeared on the series in 2014, spilled all restrictions put in place after he left the jungle. In a piece written for the Radio Times, he revealed the kind of […]

11 OCT

Why Wasn't He Prosecuted?

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. on Wednesday defended his office’s decision not to prosecute Harvey Weinstein for sexual assault after the film mogul groped a woman in New York in 2015. Vance denied it had anything to do with campaign contributions from Weinstein’s lawyer. “Our sex crimes prosecutors made a determination that this was […]

22 APR

If the US could have prosecuted Assange, it would have already done so

Carl Court/Getty Images While the Obama administration prosecuted more leakers of classified information than all previous administrations combined, there was one target they could never quite figure out how to go after without getting ensnared in the First Amendment rights of journalists. From his perch at the Ecuadorean Embassy, the journalist-cum-transparency activist Julian Assange could […]