Crimes Against Humanity

• Canada accuses doctor of crimes against humanity for virginity tests on women in Afghanistan

  After Saida Ahmadi testified in an Afghan court about the results of one test, a young women was imprisoned for seven years.

  Canada

  Mar 11, 2020
  
• Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of ex-Nazi living in Waterloo, Ont.

  The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of an elderly man whose Canadian citizenship was revoked for lying about his membership in a Second World War Nazi death squad.

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2019
  
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• Saddam Hussein cabinet minister made refugee claim so Canada could pay for dialysis treatments

  A cabinet minister in the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein made a refugee claim in Canada after learning Iraq would no longer cover his medical costs.

  Investigations

  Aug 21, 2019
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• RCMP explores crimes against humanity charges for Canadian ISIS members

  Crimes against humanity include murder, enslavement, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, persecution “or any other inhumane act” against a civilian population or identifiable group.

  Canada

  Jun 5, 2019
• The ISIS mechanic: Man now living in B.C. fixed trucks for terror group. Is he complicit in war crimes?

  Vehicles were central to the ISIS campaign, but like any trucks, they broke down, and mechanics were needed to keep them on the road — mechanics like Boutros Massroua.

  Canada

  Apr 25, 2019
• Refugee claimant, in Canada since 2015, complicit in ISIS crimes against humanity, tribunal says

  A Lebanese mechanic now living in Canada has been found complicit in crimes against humanity for repairing military vehicles for ISIS.

  Canada

  Apr 18, 2019
• Radovan Karadzic, ex-Bosnian Serb leader, sentenced to life by UN judges

  Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was previously convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

  World

  Mar 20, 2019
• Ex-Nazi death squad member stripped of Canadian citizenship seeks appeal

  Helmut Oberlander, who came to Canada in 1954 and became a citizen six years later, has steadfastly maintained he was just 17 when he was forced on pain of execution to join the Nazi death squad Einsatzkommando 10a.

  Canada

  Nov 23, 2018
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• Vladimir Putin to withdraw Russia from the International Criminal Court

  Russia in 2000 signed the Rome treaty that established the Hague-based court but never ratified it.

  World

  Nov 16, 2016
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• Islamic State sex slaves case should be tried as a war crime, investigators argue

  War crimes investigators collecting evidence of the Islamic State group's elaborate operation to kidnap thousands of women as sex slaves say they have a case to try IS leaders with crimes against humanity but cannot get the global backing.

  World

  Sep 24, 2016