Tag: crimes against humanity

• Wednesday, October 6th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  Brazil's CPI to file criminal charges against Bolsonaro and some of his aides

  

  Brazil's Parliamentary Investigative Committee (CPI) delving into the Government's management of the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday announced it planned to accuse President Jair Bolsonaro and members of his cabinet of “crimes against humanity” and even “genocide” of indigenous peoples

• Friday, February 19th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Former Colombian leaders confess war crimes and crimes against humanity

  

  During the 50-year war with the state, the demobilized Colombian FARC guerrillas committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, former commanders from the group accepted on Thursday in a transitional justice court.

• Friday, April 5th 2019 - 10:00 UTC

  Uruguayan president caught with his pants down

  

  Uruguayan president and oncologist Tabare Vazquez has publicly admitted full responsibility for not having read, but approvingly signed, delicate documents referred to alleged crimes against humanity committed during the military dictatorship, and consequently, without consultation, he sacked the Defense minister and deputy, and seven generals.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 08:20 UTC

  Argentine Prosecution orders the arrest of 26 officers for alleged torture against conscripts in the Falklands

  

  The Federal Prosecution Office from Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego has called for the arrest of 26 officers allegedly involved in torture practices against conscripts during the Falklands conflict in 1982. The case has been ongoing for over a decade but it remains at snail pace.

• Thursday, October 27th 2011 - 23:16 UTC

  Uruguay passes bill eliminating prescription of crimes against humanity

  

  The Uruguayan Congress passed early Thursday a law that eliminates the effects of the 1986 Amnesty Law (also known as Expiry Law), which protected police and military personnel from being prosecuted for human rights violations, and repeals a statute of limitations that would have prevented victims from filing criminal complaints as of 1 November.

• Monday, May 16th 2011 - 17:51 UTC

  Argentine court rules prescription of abuses and tortures against Malvinas conscripts

  

  The cases of abuse, ill treatment, torture and alleged homicides committed against Argentines conscripts by their officers, some of them still on active service, during the 1982 Malvinas war were declared prescribed.