The year-old Mustafa has pleaded not guilty. The case is the first to go to trial at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, which was established in The Hague in to probe allegations that members of the UCK committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the war between ethnic Albanian rebels and Serbian forces.
The EU-backed court operates under Kosovar law but is based in The Netherlands to shield witnesses from intimidation. Serbia has celebrated a new national day of unity, amid concerns from neighbours in the Western Balkans. On Wednesday, Belgrade kicked off the holiday with a display of military power and calls for all Serbs in the Balkans to unite under one flag.
The new national holiday coincides with the day when the Royal Serbian army together with French troops defeated Axis forces in a famous World War I battle in northern Greece in The committee said it unearthed serious allegations of physical and psychological ill-treatment by law enforcement officials.
In a final report published on Tuesday, it said the claims were so serious they could amount to torture. They included kicks, punches, slaps and beatings with batons, baseball bats, wooden tablets and electric cables in custody, but also rape with a baton and mock execution with a firearm.
Once the bill is approved by the senate and the president, it will require the owners of such apps to register with authorities and open offices in the Central Asian nation, moves the government says will streamline the handling of official requests to remove illegal content. An initial group of Afghan pilots who flew themselves and their family members to safety in Uzbekistan aboard Afghan Air Force aircraft were transferred to a US military base in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, according to the office of Representative August Pfluger, which has been in contact with one of the pilots and his wife.
Two other groups of Afghan pilots and their relatives are expected to fly out in the next day or so under an arrangement the United States negotiated with Uzbekistan to move more than Afghans. The Afghan pilots, whom the Taliban consider among the most reviled members of the Afghan military for their role in conducting airstrikes against Taliban fighters, have been caught in a delicate diplomatic tug of war since fleeing their country as the government in Kabul was collapsing last month.
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Recent topics, shifts and disruptions. The policies used to contain the Covid pandemic have brought disruption that moved at a speed not seen in Beijing has used its growing power A trend toward increased government influence in economies and personal life is curbing growth, and freedom, in many Western countries. Assad is the oldest dictator in our portrait gallery. He is also the one with the most blood on his hands. His future now seems secure - which in itself says much about the state of the world we live in today.
The personalities our previous portraits explored were all from the Middle East. In contrast to the personalities analysed previously the latter cannot be categorized as a dictator. However, Christophe Jaffrelot, The world is watching with fascination the tremendous changes that have been occurring in China in recent decades.
The metamorphosis brought about by the consolidation of Mr Xi's absolute power Of course, he is not a dictator, but he is in some ways disturbingly similar to his authoritarian counterparts: he is an autocrat in power, constrained by the democratic and liberal environment in This autumn, we had published on our blog a series of portraits - written by the most relevant authors - of personalities that we described as "neo-authoritharians".
Putin opened the series and Mr. Trump closed it, with Mr. Orban, Mr. Rodrigo Duterte, the "strong man" of Manila, is the typical example of a leader who came to power through the ballot box but whose exercise of power, of unprecedented brutality, breaks with democratic It is a pure dictatorship, and a dynastic one at that. We are including Kim Jong-un in this gallery of portraits because he seems to be introducing a form of renewal in his country's strategy - and also because Mr Trump has de Who is Benjamin Netanyahu?
To what extent do some of his political positions bring him closer to neo-authoritarians? Paul Kagame is not just any other African dictator. He seems to hold the keys to modernity. He enjoys, or at least has long enjoyed, a positive aura on the international scene. He governs Rwanda, which was home to one of the most horrible nightmares known by Humanity in recent decades.
How has Venezuela ended up in chaos and misery? Jair Bolsonaro came out of nowhere. He is now about to rule an important country which, with President Lula and to some extent Dilma Rousseff, had acquired a significant influence on the international stage thanks to its status of major emerging country. It is true that the room for manoeuvre of a We made it clear in the introduction to our first portrait, that of Vladimir Putin: we selected the 10 sort of emblematic figures of "neo-authoritarianism" - which seems to be very popular these days - arbitrarily, without applying any rigorous selection criteria nor following any guiding What to Do About Neo-Authoritarians?
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