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Thai immigration denies scam-gang abduction links
Published on 20/09/2025
» The Immigration Bureau has denied allegations made in a Reuters investigative report linking Thai officials to abductions of people who were taken to work in scam call centres in Myanmar.
Harrowing tales as Kony war crimes trial opens
AFP, Published on 09/09/2025
» THE HAGUE - Villages torched, young girls forced into sexual slavery, women abandoning babies to flee for their lives: the International Criminal Court Tuesday heard harrowing stories of atrocities allegedly committed by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda.
Caribbean states step up calls for slavery reparations
Published on 20/02/2025
» Former colonial powers must apologise and pay compensation for their historic role in the enslavement of Africans, Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Waitress rescued from 'torture, enslavement'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 26/10/2023
» A 21-year-old woman has been rescued from a Japanese restaurant in Bangkok's Phasi Charoen district after allegedly being treated like a slave by the owner who the woman claims abused and tortured her for a year.
UN: Myanmar war crimes ‘more frequent and brazen’
Published on 08/08/2023
» GENEVA: United Nations investigators say they have gathered strong evidence of surging war crimes in Myanmar, including mass executions and sexual violence, and were building case files to help bring perpetrators to justice.
Memory of macabre cult massacre buried in Guyana jungle
AFP, Published on 01/12/2022
» JONESTOWN, Guyana: Deep in the Guyanese jungle, only a signpost and a nondescript plaque serve as reminders of a cult settlement where one of the most spine-chilling mass murder-suicides in modern history took place almost five decades ago.
ICC prosecutor seeks charges against fugitive warlord Kony
AFP, Published on 24/11/2022
» THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said Thursday he would ask judges to confirm charges against Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, head of the notorious Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), even though Kony remains at large.
Cambodia Khmer Rouge court upholds conviction in final ruling
AFP, Published on 22/09/2022
» Cambodia's United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes court gave its final verdict Thursday, upholding the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on the regime's last surviving leader.
UN rights chief to publish Xinjiang report on Wednesday
AFP, Published on 31/08/2022
» GENEVA: The UN rights chief will release a long-awaited report on alleged violations in China's Xinjiang region before leaving office later Wednesday, despite strong pressure from Beijing not to publish.