A Paris court sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison on Friday for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad and the first such case on European soil. The trial focused on the officials’ role in the alleged arrest, torture and killing […]
A court in Russia on Monday convicted a Meta spokesperson of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison in a swift trial in absentia, Russia’s independent news site Mediazona reported. According to the outlet, the charges against Meta communications director Andy Stone stem from his remarks in 2022 following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — International Criminal Court prosecutors will present evidence to back up charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against notorious fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony at the global court’s first ever in absentia hearing later this year. The court announced Monday it will hold a so-called confirmation of charges […]
A Moscow court ordered an arrest in absentia of Petro Vrublevskyi, Ukraine’s former ambassador to Kazakhstan, over his comments about killing Russian soldiers, the Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported on March 4. Talking to a Kazakh blogger about Russia’s war in an August 2022 interview, Vrublevskyi said: “We are trying to kill as many […]
The Gagarin District Court of Moscow ordered the arrest in absentia of Illia Novikov, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko‘s lawyer, Novikov said on Feb. 14, publishing a copy of the court’s decision on Facebook. Novikov was accused of spreading “fake news” about the Russian military. Such charges are commonly used to try and silence perceived […]
Based on the Security Service of Ukraine materials, pro-Russian blogger Yurii Podoliaka, who guided the Russian missiles at Mykolaiv, was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison. Source: Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) report Quote: “Thanks to the SSU evidence base, pro-Russian blogger Yurii Podoliaka was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison. […]
Denis Pushilin, Head of the “DPR” (Russian-backed “Donetsk People’s Republic” terrorist organisation), has been sentenced in absentia to 15 years behind bars. Source: Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor’s Office Quote: “Following a public charge by prosecutors of the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor’s Office, a citizen of Ukraine was sentenced for encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of […]
Denis Pushilin, the head of the Russian illegal occupation administration in Donetsk Oblast, was found guilty of undermining Ukraine’s territorial integrity and collaborationism, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported on Dec. 27. He was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property. It was reportedly proved in court that Pushilin had held […]