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Yemen’s cabinet approves a draft law which grants President Ali Abdullah Saleh immunity from prosecution as part of a Gulf-brokered transition deal.
President Hadi issued a presidential decree that stated all victims of the peaceful revolution are now martyrs who sacrificed their souls for their country. The decree included the adoption of a salary for each martyr or disabled person. People who are partially disabled will be taken care of underneath the Social Welfare Fund.
Pursuant to the request of the Resolution A/HRC/RES/S-16/1 of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), adopted on 29 April 2011, the High Commissioner for Human Rights established a Fact Finding Mission to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law in Syria; to establish the facts and circumstances of such violations and of the crimes perpetrated, with a view to avoiding impunity and ensuring full accountability.
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered Libyan authorities to immediately to hand over Abdullah al-Senussi, deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s former intelligence chief. The written order sets up the latest legal showdown between the Hague-based court and Libyan authorities, who say they plan to put Senussi on trial themselves. The ICC has indicted Senussi on crimes against humanity charges for the murder and persecution of protesters in the early days of the uprising that eventually toppled Gaddafi in 2011.
Libya’s former Prime Minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi has gone on trial in Tripoli charged with “acts that led to the unjust killing of Libyans”. Mr Mahmoudi and two others are also accused of funnelling about $25m ($16m) of public money through Tunisia to help forces supporting Col Gaddafi.
Libya’s parliament, the General National Congress, is debating a draft bill that would bar anyone deemed to have had ties to the former regime from state institutions for 10 years. Another body, called the Supreme Agency for Standards of Integrity and Nationalism, vets Libyans for links to the regime. Sifting through thousands of pages of documents culled from the archives of the regime’s Revolutionary Committees, the agency’s workers search for evidence of links to Gadhafi’s government or security agencies by current officials.
The Shura Council Human Rights Committee recommended during a meeting Thursday establishing a court for “transitional justice” to deal with Egypt’s current political stage.
The Parliament approved the inclusion of a draft law on transitional justice and national reconciliation on its agenda. President Hadi urged the parliament to discuss and approve the draft law and to submit it to him to be issued according to the Gulf initiative.
An Egyptian court accepted an appeal by ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his former interior minister Habib el-Adly, allowing them to be retried over the killings of protesters in the 2011 uprising.
A letter sent to the United Nations Security Council on behalf of 57 states calling for a referral of the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC) gives momentum to international efforts to stop grave abuses committed there. More countries should join the call and impress on reluctant Council members the urgency of taking up the issue of accountability.
The organic bill defining the foundations and scopes of transitional justice is submitted to the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) by the Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice.
Clashes during the second anniversary of the revolution which deposed Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak have brought the number of Egyptians killed since the uprising began. Human rights activists call for serious investigations into the violence that accompanied the revolution and the violence that followed it.
Tunisia's ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Tuesday was handed a third life sentence since he fled to Saudi Arabia in January 2011 during a mass uprising against his rule. The military court in Sfax, southeast Tunisia, convicted Ben Ali over the violent repression of protests in the region during the revolution in which one person died and two others were injured, the official TAP news agency reported.
The first meeting devoted to transitional justice and national reconciliation led by interim president Adly Mansour was attended by Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, representatives of several political forces, the Sunni Islam institute of Al-Azhar, and the Egyptian Coptic Church. Most Islamist parties and groups were not present.
Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s imprisoned former ruler, has been cleared in the corruption case that alleged he embezzled funds for presidential palaces.
The North Cairo Court ordered the release on Wednesday of former president Hosni Mubarak in the so-called “Ahram gifts” case, in which Mubarak allegedly accepted $11m worth of gifts, including jewellery and watches, from the state-run newspaper Al-Ahram. He has allegedly already repaid the amount of the gifts, and the other defendants in the case have been released, suggesting that the charges against Mubarak could eventually be dropped.
Arab League foreign ministers have urged the international community and the United Nations to take “deterrent” action against the Syrian regime over its alleged use of chemical weapons.
Late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's son and his spy chief were charged on Tuesday with murder in relation to the country's 2011 civil war and are set to stand trial, said Libya's general prosecutor. Abdel-Qader Radwan told reporters that the trial will start Sept. 19 on alleged crimes committed during Gadhafi's 42-year rule and during the eight-month-long civil war that deposed him. The defendants are former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi and Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the heir apparent and only son of the former dictator who is in custody. A total of 28 former regime members will face trial that day on various charges ranging from murder, forming armed groups in violation of the law, inciting rape and kidnappings.
Egypt's army-backed authorities referred deposed President Mohamed Mursi to trial on Sunday on charges of inciting murder and violence, in an escalation of the crackdown on his Muslim Brotherhood. The new government also named a constituent assembly almost devoid of Islamists and gave it 60 days to review amendments that would erase Islamic articles brought in last year by the Brotherhood and more hardline Islamic parties.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has appeared in court in Zintan, west of the capital Tripoli, on security charges and his trial was adjourned until December, a lawyer said. “Saif al-Islam Gaddafi appeared before the Zintan court that decided to adjourn the trial until December 12 to allow the attendance of other accused in the case,” the lawyer, who was present in court, told the AFP news agency on Thursday.
One day before the inauguration of the National Dialogue Conference (NDC) Concluding Plenary, political factions arrived at a tentative agreement on political isolation. An agreement was reached that immunity for Saleh means he should abstain from political activities, as per law No.1/2012.
An international court has published one more arrest warrant related to the killing of Rafik al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister, that almost pushed the country into civil war. Thursday’s announcement came months after the actual indictment.
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon circulated posters of Hassan Habib Merhi, the fifth Hezbollah member to be indicted over the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The National Constituent Assembly of Tunisia has adopted a law to set up a national body to prevent torture in what is seen as significant step forward towards eradicating torture in the North African nation. The new mechanism, named the National Body to Prevent Torture, will be independent and have broad jurisdiction, including the power to visit all places of detention.
Libya has been told by the International Criminal Court that it can conduct the trial of dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s former spy chief, the first time the court has deferred a case to a national judiciary.
The UN Security Council has authorised backing up the operation of dismantling of Syria’s chemical-weapons stockpile with 100 extra international experts. The plan, proposed by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has suggested maintaining a “light footprint”, deploying only the personnel needed at any given time and operating out of Cyprus and Damascus.
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