When armed officers from Pakistan's Crime Control Department raided Zubaida Bibi's home in Bahawalpur city in southern Punjab province last November, they took everything: mobile phones, cash, gold jewellery and her daughter's wedding dowry. They also took her sons. Within 24 hours, five members of her family were dead, killed in separate police encounters across different districts of Pakistan's Punjab the province that alone is home to more than half of the country's population.
Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations, the Southern Command said in a statement. The command included a video of the strike with its announcement, which shows a boat traveling through the water as it explodes into flames after being hit with what looks like a missile. The Southern Command and the Pentagon did not immediately return requests for additional information.
No government agency, none, has the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner. Extrajudicial killings violate the Constitution, they violate human rights, and violate the most basic standards of democracy," Coletta Zapata said. "Boston has a responsibility to say that out loud. And it is a declaration that Boston will not be silent when federal power is abused.
The killing of two unarmed Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Jenin has provoked international outrage after video footage of the incident went viral on Friday. Credited to the local Palestine TV station, the footage shows two young Palestinian men surrendering to Israeli soldiers and lying on the ground in front of a garage under soldiers' instructions.
When Sheikh Hasina was ousted as Bangladesh's prime minister in August 2024 after a student-led uprising, many in the country believed the darkest days of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings were finally over. The interim administration, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, sworn in on August 8 last year, arrived on promises of justice, reform and an end to state violence.
The electrician from central Myanmar was part of an underground assassin squad that targeted security personnel and infrastructure tied to the military government in their city strongholds. Once detained, he knew his military captors would show little mercy. Arkar, who asked to use a pseudonym to protect his identity, said he endured weeks of torture in secret detention centres before being sentenced to three years at Insein Prison, Myanmar's most notorious jail.
It's beneath [Graham] to say what he just said. He knows, as well as I do, there is no legal authorization for these strikes. There isn't, Himes started off by saying. He continued: If Lindsey Graham and other Republicans want to go the route of saying it's okay to kill people illegally, just so long as the American public supports it,' the American public needs to really think that through, you know? There will be a Democratic president someday.
A group of United Nations experts say U.S. strikes targeting boats in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela amount to extrajudicial execution. In recent weeks, the U.S. has struck seven boats, claiming they were being used to traffic drugs, but the U.S. has offered no proof to back up its claim. The U.N. experts said, quote, "These moves are an extremely dangerous escalation with grave implications for peace and security in the Caribbean region," unquote.
There is no country in the world which has managed to bring down its high levels of criminality without taking stances such as this, Knoploch told Rio's legislative assembly on Tuesday, hailing the law as a way of fighting criminals he called scum.
