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The foreign POWs stuck in Ukrainian prison limbo
AFP, Published on 30/01/2026
» UNDISCLOSED (UKRAINE) — "Assemble!" someone bellowed in the prison corridor, cutting through the silence.
'Like a horror movie': 770 km of fear for those fleeing Sudan's El-Fasher
AFP, Published on 14/11/2025
» AL DABBAH (SUDAN) - Survivors of the bloody takeover of El-Fasher walked for days through the desert, past bodies and armed men who humiliated them, desperate to escape the Sudanese city now overrun by paramilitary forces.
‘No one could stop it’: Fleeing Sudanese describe mass rapes
AFP, Published on 05/11/2025
» TAWILA, Sudan - Sudanese mother Amira wakes up every day trembling, haunted by scenes of mass rapes she saw while fleeing the western city of El-Fasher after it was overrun by paramilitaries.
German court jails Syrian 'torture' doctor for life
AFP, Published on 16/06/2025
» FRANKFURT (GERMANY) - A German court on Monday sentenced a Syrian doctor to life in prison for crimes against humanity for torturing detainees at military hospitals under former ruler Bashar al-Assad.
Georgia police arrest two opposition leaders at protest
AFP, Published on 03/02/2025
» TBILISI - Georgian police arrested two opposition leaders during a street protest against the ruling party Sunday, a moved quickly denounced by the European Union, which denounced Tbilisi's "brutal crackdown".
Survivors recall horror of 1982 Assad-era massacre
AFP, Published on 31/01/2025
» HAMA, Syria - Hayan Hadid was 18 when soldiers arrested him in his pyjamas and took him for execution in Hama in 1982, during one of the darkest chapters of the Assad clan’s rule in Syria.
'Game of nerves': Georgians vow to outlast govt in pro-EU protests
AFP, Published on 18/12/2024
» TBILISI - Thousands of Georgians renewed pro-EU protests Tuesday, vowing to win a "game of nerves" with the government, which faces a legitimacy crisis and mounting international outcry over human rights violations.
World court to hear 'watershed' Syria torture case
AFP, Published on 10/10/2023
» THE HAGUE - Syria faces allegations at the UN top court Tuesday that it maintains a "pervasive" system of torture that has killed tens of thousands of people.
Russian missiles pound east Ukraine city, killing two, wounding dozens
AFP, Published on 28/03/2023
» SLOVIANSK (UKRAINE): Russian missiles punched through buildings in the eastern Ukrainian town of Sloviansk on Monday, killing two people in their cars and wounding more than 30, police said.
'Hotel Rwanda' hero freed
AFP, Published on 25/03/2023
» KIGALI: Fiercely outspoken Rwandan government critic Paul Rusesabagina, whose efforts to save people during the 1994 genocide inspired the Hollywood film “Hotel Rwanda”, has been freed from prison after more than 900 days behind bars.