A former security services official is charged with helping to abduct three men in Minsk in 1999. He’s being tried in Switzerland under universal jurisdiction.
Author: NICK CUMMING-BRUCE
Switzerland and Austria Join Sky Shield Air Defense Initiative Amid Threats Raised by Russia-Ukraine War
The Sky Shield initiative is aimed at strengthening Europe’s air defenses to deal with threats highlighted by Russia’s assault on Ukraine.
Bankers Are Convicted of Allowing a Putin Ally to Deposit Millions in Swiss Accounts
The accounts were opened in the name of Sergei P. Roldugin, a concert cellist nicknamed “Putin’s wallet.”
U.N. Confirms More Than 7,000 Civilian Deaths in Ukraine
The total includes only those that U.N. investigators have been able to corroborate, and does not include the dozens killed in Saturday’s strike on Dnipro.
Volker Türk, the U.N.’s New Human Rights Chief, Has a Lot to Do.
From Iran to Ukraine to Xinjiang in China, Volker Türk will have no shortage of challenges as he steps into one of the United Nations’ most delicate roles.
China Turns Back Move for U.N. Debate on Abuse of Uyghurs
Western countries were seeking to discuss a landmark U.N. report on China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang region.
War Crimes Have Been Committed in Ukraine, U.N. Experts Say
A three-person Commission of Inquiry set up in April to investigate the conduct of hostilities in four areas of Ukraine laid out the graphic allegations in an unusually hard-hitting, 11-minute statement to the U.N Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Volker Türk, an Austrian Diplomat, Takes U.N. Human Rights Post
One of Volker Türk’s toughest challenges will be determining what to do about a highly critical report on China that his predecessor, Michelle Bachelet, released just before departing.