death-squads

EXCLUSIVE: Dramatic footage has emerged of two gunmen storming a tattoo parlour in a brazen attempt to assassinate a leader of the Comanchero bikie gang. Bystanders fled for their lives as the would-be hitmen ran into Nitro Ink in Hampton Park about 1.15pm on February 22. COMANCHEROS IN THE ...

Murder is a common tool of dictators and despots. They order people to be killed to suppress dissent, to punish opponents, and sometimes for sport. But we know of only two — North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and Russian president-for-life Vladimir Putin — who have used chemical weapons to ...

This high rate of invalidity led a well-known commentator to refer to the PTAB as a “patent death squad.” The work of the PTAB has had a chilling effect on patent owners seeking to enforce their rights: Recent statistics show a 40% decrease in new patent litigations being filed. It is against this backdrop ...

More than 800 businesses sponsored paramilitary groups that committed tens of thousands of human right violations in Colombia, in most cases without consequence, according to a recent report. The report was published by Colombian think tank Dejusticia, Oxford University and other investigators after a ...

The younger brother of former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe was allowed to leave prison and await his trial over allegedly leading a death squad from home. A judge agreed with the defense attorneys of rancher Santiago Uribe that the prosecution had taken too much time to proceed with the court case.

In recent days Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte announced that he would withdraw his country from the treaty governing the International Criminal Court. That move came just over a month after the ICC's top prosecutor announced that she had opened a preliminary investigation into atrocities carried out ...

In recent days Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte announced that he would withdraw his country from the treaty governing the International Criminal Court. That move came just over a month after the ICC's top prosecutor announced that she had opened a preliminary investigation into atrocities carried out ...

Robert Edhouse and Melony Attwood convicted of murder in Nazi 'death squad' killing of Alan Taylor ... scenes erupted in a Supreme Court dock today when convicted “Nazi death-squad” killer Robert Edhouse attempted to attack his co-accused and a family member was restrained by security guards.

As the former Hawks boss, Booysen enjoyed Cele's support when he and 24 members of the Durban Organised Crime Unit were accused of operating a “death squad”. In June 2012, Booysen and his co-accused were arrested and charged with 116 counts, including racketeering, murder and attempted ...

As the former Hawks boss, Booysen enjoyed Cele's support when he and 24 members of the Durban Organised Crime Unit were accused of operating a “death squad”. In June 2012, Booysen and his co-accused were arrested and charged with 116 counts, including racketeering, murder and attempted ...

He championed the poor and was killed by a death squad in El Salvador. Decades ... Pope Francis has cleared the way to sainthood for Archbishop Oscar Romero, a beloved advocate for the poor and a fierce critic of El Salvador's civil war who was slain in 1980 by a right-wing death squad. The Vatican ...

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has given the assurance that legal fees owed to lawyers for police personnel facing murder charges arising from the so-called death squad cases will be settled within the next week. The cases, which involve about nine policemen, have stalled in the courts as the attorneys ...

Attorneys representing the policemen charged with murder and other criminal offences in the so-called 'death-squad' cases have submitted bills to the Government for legal fees totaling $107 million, insiders have revealed. "That's an average of more than $9 million per case," noted one source, who ...

State prosecutors have filed charges asserting that state police established specialized units that used tactics reminiscent of death squads to abduct, kill and dispose of the bodies of young people they suspected of working as cartel informants and drug traffickers. Earlier this month, graphic and disturbing ...

Police in Mexico's corruption-plagued state of Veracruz set up units that used death squad-style tactics to abduct, kill and dispose of at least 15 people who they suspected of being drug cartel informers and drug runners, according to charges filed by state prosecutors. The allegations filed against the former ...

Three members of a so-called white supremacist "death-squad" have gone on trial charged with the murder of a Perth father, who was allegedly bludgeoned to death with a hammer. Fly-in-fly-out worker Alan Taylor, 42, was killed in his Girrawheen home in April 2016. His partner of nine years - and the ...

Yemen's Ministry of Defence said Al Houthis had dispatched death squads to the Nehim battlefield to block government forces, and slow their advance towards Sana'a. Brigadier-General Abdullah Mazeb, a senior commander on Nehim front, said dozens of men from the death squads had been killed along ...

A part-time religious teacher who tried to groom children to become future suicide attackers has been convicted of preparing acts of terrorism. Umar Ahmed Haque, 25, was dragged from the dock at the Old Bailey shouting support for the Islamic State group. He had been inspired to carry out an atrocity by ...

President of the Senate Tom Tavares-Finson on Thursday urged Opposition Senator Lambert Brown to withdraw an assertion that police officers involved in the so-called death squad cases are in jail because, among other things, they took a stance against criminals. "I also propose, President, that the ...

Haque, 25 of east London was an administrator at Essex Islamic Academy in Barking, where he tried to recruit 55 boys aged 11-14 to his "death squad" and making them re-enact attacks on police officers. Haque, who was given a life sentence with a minimum sentence of 25 years at the Old Bailey on ...