Source: ISIS executes hundreds of Mosul area residents
Updated 0131 GMT (0931 HKT) October 22, 2016
ISIS executed 284 men and boys as coalition forces closed in on Mosul, an Iraqi intelligence source told CNN.
Those killed on Thursday and Friday had been rounded up near and in the city for use as human shields against attacks that are forcing ISIS out of the southern sections of Mosul, the source explained.
ISIS used a bulldozer to dump the corpses in a mass grave at the scene of the executions -- Mosul's defunct College of Agriculture in the north of the city, the intelligence source said.
The victims were all shot and some were children, said the source, who wanted anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media. CNN could not independently confirm the claim.
'We might abolish the death penalty in 20 years': He Jiahong on justice in China
Born into China’s cultural revolution, He Jiahong spent years working in the fields before studying law to win over his girlfriend’s parents. Now he is a leading authority on miscarriages of justice, and a writer of hit detective novels to boot
The undead take on a central role in Prof He Jiahong’s extraordinary narratives of courtroom incompetence. They haunt the commanding certainties of the trial process and the execution yard.
But He is not a connoisseur of Halloween magic. As China’s leading authority on miscarriages of justice and the author of a series of detective novels, the 63-year-old former prosecutor and acclaimed academic has exposed heart-stopping flaws in judicial procedures.
His meticulous and engaging research exposed the infamous case of Teng Xingshan, who was executed in 1989 for murdering his mistress. Six years later Teng’s supposed victim, Shi Xiaorong, was discovered to be alive.
Compare the coverage of Mosul and East Aleppo and it tells you a lot about the propaganda we consume
In both countries, two large Sunni Arab urban centres – East Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq – are being besieged by pro-government forces strongly supported by foreign airpower. Yet the coverage is very different
I was in Iran in early 2011 when there were reports from opposition sources in exile saying that protests were sweeping the country. There was some substance in this. There had been a demonstration of 30,000 protesters in north Tehran on 14 February – recalling the mass protests against the allegedly fixed presidential election of 2009 – that had caught the authorities by surprise. There was hopeful commentary from Western pundits suggesting that the Arab Spring uprisings might be spreading to Iran.
But, by the time I got to Tehran a few days later, nothing much appeared to be going on, though there were plenty of bored looking riot police standing around in the rain doing nothing. It looked as if the protests had dwindled away, but when I checked the internet I found this was not so. Opposition spokesmen were claiming that protests were taking place every week not just in north Tehran but in other Iranian cities. This account appeared to be confirmed by videos running online showing protesters resisting baton-wielding riot police and militiamen.
Schindler factory to become a Holocaust memorial
Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews from deportation to a concentration camp by hiring them to work in his factory during World War II. Now that building is to become a memorial site.
Oskar Schindler's former factory in the Czech Republic will be declared a listed monument, the Oskar-Schindler Foundation said on Thursday.
The foundation took over the management of the dilapidated building in the village of Brnenec in August. It plans to restore it and turn it into a Holocaust memorial by 2019.
Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) was a German industrialist and Nazi spy whose story became famous through Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List." By employing Jews in his ammunitions factory, the businessman defied the Nazi regime and saved the lives of 1,200 of them. He had written down the names of the people to be protected on a list.
South Africa’s decision to leave ICC a "blow to victims" of international crimes
Latest update : 2016-10-21
South Africa’s announcement Friday that it is leaving the ICC surprised many, raising questions about its legality and concerns for the future of a court that counted South African dissident-turned-president Nelson Mandela as a key advocate.
The United Nations confirmed receipt Friday of South Africa’s withdrawal from the ICC, effective October 19, 2017. The withdrawal makes South Africa the first state to quit the 1998 Rome Statute that established the court. The South African announcement follows a similar decision by Burundi’s leader earlier this week, while Kenya, Uganda and Namibia have been mooting similar moves. The 124-member ICC, based in The Hague, is the world’s first legal body with permanent international jurisdiction to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
“It’s a blow to the victims of international criminal injustice,” Allan Ngari, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, told FRANCE 24 of Pretoria’s decision. Over the phone from Johannesburg, Ngari cited concerns that the decision “may spur a domino effect” on the African continent.
Hackers cripple US internet in wide-scale cyber attack
WikiLeaks implied its supporters may be behind the attack and asked them to "stop taking down the US internet".
Several of the world's best-known websites were inaccessible across parts of the United States on Friday after hackers unleashed a series of attacks on a company that acts as a switchboard for the internet.
The attacks affected access to Twitter, Paypal, Spotify and other customers of the infrastructure company in New Hampshire called Dyn, which processes large volumes of internet traffic.
"The attacks came in waves," Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds, reporting from Los Angeles, said. "First targeting the East Coast of the United States, spreading then to the other parts of the country and even to Western Europe."
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