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A Tanzanian court has jailed opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, for four years on a charge of incitement. But the three-judge panel in Dar-es-Salaam dismissed a charge of treason that carried the threat of a death sentence. The ruling was handed down on Friday, in a trial closely watched...

The United Nations has condemned the seizure of eight Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, saying the settlers assaulted residents and forced dozens of people to flee. Stephane Dujarric, a spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told...

Myanmar will hold special elections to fill parliamentary vacancies next April in its first vote since this year’s general election that critics said was designed to cement military rule. The elections will fill vacancies left by elected representatives who took ministerial or government posts and...

The death toll from a Russian attack on an aid distribution center in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region has risen to at least 50 people, making it one of the deadliest Russian attacks this year. Ukraine’s emergency service announced on Friday that the toll from Monday’s strike on the village of...

Nepal must put transitional justice at the center of its national agenda, as the country celebrates this month the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Accord that ended the decades long civil war, a UN expert said today. “Since the Accord was signed in 2006, several transitional justice...

The UK and the U.S. have condemned the 10-year sentence given to Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong under a controversial national security law. Wong, 30, was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to “foreign collusion” under the law. He is the only person to have been prosecuted...

Syria’s National Commission for Transitional Justice has begun developing a national victims registry to document serious human rights violations, preserve the rights of those affected and support efforts to establish the truth, ensure accountability, and provide reparations. The initiative seeks to...

Russian forces have bombed an aid center in Ukraine, killing at least 31 people, according to Ukrainian officials, as the United States announced plans for new peace talks on November 10 and 11. The aid center, at a school in the village of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region, had been closed to...

Zambia’s government carried out a violent crackdown on opposition parties after August’s election, in which President Hakainde Hichilema won a second term, according to a Human Rights Watch report published Monday. Police and military personnel forcibly disappeared, arbitrarily detained, beat and...

An attack on a military base in southern Colombia killed four civilians, including a two-month-old baby, President Abelardo de la Espriella said Monday, as drug gangs and rebel groups step up violence in response to his government’s new security strategy. The attack occurred Sunday night in Planadas...