The appeal again seeks to hold Germany accountable for US drone attacks launched involving airbases on its soil. Two members of the bin Ali Jaber family, Salem and Waleed bin Ali Jaber, were allegedly killed in a US drone attack in Khashamir, Yemen, in 2012, according to the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, which filed the case on …
In 2017, over 60 farmers died, and hundreds were affected reportedly by the increased use of pesticides sprayed without any protective gear, on the cotton crop in Yavatmal and other districts of Maharashtra. In a first, a group of farmers from Yavatmal, Maharashtra, who suffered from contact pesticide poisoning in 2017, have filed a complaint along with their families, against …
Prosecutors in world’s first criminal trial on torture in Syria target Anwar Raslan, an ex colonel, and Eyad al-Gharib. But if he is convicted, he would be looking at a lengthy sentence.” Steve Kostas, lead project officer with the Open Society Justice Initiative’s Syrian accountability project, said: “This case is important because we are seeing evidence, compiled by so many …
More than two decades after Chile’s return to democracy, and eight years after the Colonia Dignidad ceased to exist in its original form, the darkest parts of the gruesome German settlement in rural Southern Chile have yet to come to light. When the ECCHR learned in summer 2011, that Hartmut Hopp, the former head of the hospital and “representative for …
