In Sudan, Perpetrators of War Crimes Are Rewarded While Civilians Languish

On a warm night in July 2024, soldiers from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) stormed into Yasser’s home in the eastern city of Kassala. They climbed over the gated walls and barged through the front door carrying batons and Kalashnikov rifles. They told Yasser, who requested pseudonyms for himself and his family out of fear of reprisal, that his 21-year-old daughter Hind was accused of…
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Judge Blocks US Sanctions Against UN Palestine Expert Francesca Albanese 

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s sanctions on Francesca Albanese, a UN expert on the occupied Palestinian territories, concluding that the sanctions violated her right to free speech after she called for Israeli officials to be charged with war crimes. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said that the sanctions against Albanese violate her right to free…
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Boat Strike Death Toll Approaches 200 as Trump Administration Continues Murders at Sea

The murder spree being conducted by the U.S. government under the direction of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth climbed to an estimated 185 people on Sunday after the Pentagon announced another bombing of a boat it claims was trafficking illegal narcotics. “On April 26, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear…
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Iranian Group Files US-Israeli War Crimes Evidence to International Criminal Court

The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society said Saturday that his organization has submitted evidence of U.S.-Israeli war crimes to the International Criminal Court and other global bodies, seeking accountability for massive attacks on civilian infrastructure and other violations. “The ICC prosecutor announced that the documents provided by the IRCS are accepted as official evidence…
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Hungarian Prime Minister-Elect Says Country Will Arrest Netanyahu If He Visits

Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar said that his government will arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he steps foot in the country, joining roughly a dozen other European countries now off-limits for the man wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity in Gaza. Magyar, who takes office next month, said that he is ending the country’s…
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Trump Uses Same Language Cited by ICJ in Genocide Ruling Against Israel

President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that carrying out war crimes against Iran is justified because Iranian leaders are “animals” — using the same language Israeli leaders have used to describe Palestinians, which has been cited by judges in the Hague in determinations of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. A journalist asked Trump on Monday: “How would it not be a war…
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