On January 19, 2022, the New York Times released an article analyzing declassified surveillance footage of a tragically miscalculated US drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan from August 29, 2021. The grainy video footage captured by a heat-detection camera was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the US Central Command and exhibited graphic […]
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Where Will Universal Jurisdiction Go from Here?
In mid-January, Germany drew headlines when a Koblenz court found Syrian colonel Anwar Raslan guilty of torture, murder, and sexual violence. A few months before the conviction of Raslan, a French court determined that legal action against a member of Syrian state security, Abdulhamid C., could not proceed. A common theme unites the two cases: […]
The Human Cost of Putin’s Vanity
At 6 a.m. on Thursday in Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the beginning of a “special military operation” in Ukraine, capping off months of international concern about a war between Ukraine and Russia. In his nationally televised speech, Putin repeatedly underscored the supposed presence of Neo-Nazism and genocide of pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine as […]