Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon could face criminal prosecution for refusing to cooperate with a probe into the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol after the House of Representatives voted Thursday to hold him in contempt of Congress.
The Democratic-led chamber voted 229 to 202, with nine Republicans joining Democrats to recommend the charges against Bannon, who served as chief strategist for the Republican former president.
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10/25/21
6/8/20
US prosecutors seeking interview with Prince Andrew over Epstein probe say he is 'not cooperating'
U.S. prosecutors accused Britain's Prince Andrew on Monday of evading
their efforts to question him over his contacts with the late financier
Jeffrey Epstein, but lawyers for the prince accused them of seeking
publicity rather than his help.
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US prosecutors seeking interview with Prince Andrew over Epstein probe say he is 'not cooperating'
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US prosecutors seeking interview with Prince Andrew over Epstein probe say he is 'not cooperating'
3/26/18
German- Spanish Relations - Catalan Rebellion: German court extends detention of exiled Catalan leader Puigdemont
The exiled Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has had his detention extended after appearing before a German court.
Puigdemont will remain in custody pending a decision on whether he will be sent back to Spain on sedition and rebellion charges. It's the start of extradition proceedings that could take months.
"He appeared calm and composed," said Schleswig city prosecutor Georg-Freidrich Guentge when asked outside the court to describe Puigdemont's appearance.
Catalonia's former leader was arrested on a European warrant on Sunday while crossing into the country from Denmark.
Read more: German court extends detention of exiled Catalan leader Puigdemont | Euronews
Puigdemont will remain in custody pending a decision on whether he will be sent back to Spain on sedition and rebellion charges. It's the start of extradition proceedings that could take months.
"He appeared calm and composed," said Schleswig city prosecutor Georg-Freidrich Guentge when asked outside the court to describe Puigdemont's appearance.
Catalonia's former leader was arrested on a European warrant on Sunday while crossing into the country from Denmark.
Read more: German court extends detention of exiled Catalan leader Puigdemont | Euronews
12/27/15
Weapons Industry: ISIS weapons sourced from Russia, China, US and EU
Weapons and arms from dozens of countries
including Russia, China and the US have fallen into the hands of Islamic
State militants who in turn have used them to kill, terrorise and
attack.
A damning report by human rights group Amnesty International has found Islamic State atrocities have been fuelled by decades of reckless arms trading — and it’s partly the west’s fault.
In its report released today, Taking Stock: The arming of Islamic State, Amnesty reveal lax controls and decades of a poorly regulated arms trade are to blame for the terror group acquiring a huge and deadly arsenal of weapons.
Amnesty said widespread corruption within successive Iraqi governments had also given Islamic State unprecedented access to firepower.
The terror group have used these weapons to commit gross war crimes in both Syria and Iraq and also to take control over areas across Syria and Iraq.
The report draws on expert analysis of thousands of verified videos and images and details how IS fighters are using arms, mainly looted from Iraqi military stocks, which were manufactured and designed in more than two dozen countries, including EU states.
Other weapons have been acquired during battle, through illicit trade as well as through defection of fighters across Syria and Iraq.
Patrick Wilcken, Researcher on Arms Control, Security Trade and Human Rights at Amnesty International said the vast and varied weaponry being used by militants was “a textbook case of how reckless arms trading fuels atrocities on a massive scale.”
Note EU-Digest: the solution is simple: but the implementation is nearly impossible. National governments in cooperation with the UN must register all local and international arms dealers and trace their sales and whenever possible prosecute them.The least National Governments can do is to make the life of weapons dealers more difficult. It proves once again, given the actual facts, how hypocritical governments are when it comes to curbing their profitable weapons industry.
Read more: ISIS weapons sourced from Russia, China, US and EU
A damning report by human rights group Amnesty International has found Islamic State atrocities have been fuelled by decades of reckless arms trading — and it’s partly the west’s fault.
In its report released today, Taking Stock: The arming of Islamic State, Amnesty reveal lax controls and decades of a poorly regulated arms trade are to blame for the terror group acquiring a huge and deadly arsenal of weapons.
Amnesty said widespread corruption within successive Iraqi governments had also given Islamic State unprecedented access to firepower.
The terror group have used these weapons to commit gross war crimes in both Syria and Iraq and also to take control over areas across Syria and Iraq.
The report draws on expert analysis of thousands of verified videos and images and details how IS fighters are using arms, mainly looted from Iraqi military stocks, which were manufactured and designed in more than two dozen countries, including EU states.
Other weapons have been acquired during battle, through illicit trade as well as through defection of fighters across Syria and Iraq.
Patrick Wilcken, Researcher on Arms Control, Security Trade and Human Rights at Amnesty International said the vast and varied weaponry being used by militants was “a textbook case of how reckless arms trading fuels atrocities on a massive scale.”
Note EU-Digest: the solution is simple: but the implementation is nearly impossible. National governments in cooperation with the UN must register all local and international arms dealers and trace their sales and whenever possible prosecute them.The least National Governments can do is to make the life of weapons dealers more difficult. It proves once again, given the actual facts, how hypocritical governments are when it comes to curbing their profitable weapons industry.
Read more: ISIS weapons sourced from Russia, China, US and EU
3/18/15
EU-Digest Poll Shows 80 % Of Those Polled Want Returning EU Jihadists Citizenship Revoked
A recent EU-Digest poll conducted from February 1 through the 18th of March shows that 80% of those polled want returning EU Jihadists Citizenship revoked.
20 % said they wanted them incarnated and prosecuted.
A new EU-Digest poll to last through April 19th. wants your opinion on the question: "Should Greece remain in the Eurozone or not ? "
EU-Digest
20 % said they wanted them incarnated and prosecuted.
A new EU-Digest poll to last through April 19th. wants your opinion on the question: "Should Greece remain in the Eurozone or not ? "
EU-Digest
12/12/14
USA Torture Scandal: CIA torture report sparks renewed calls to prosecute senior US officials
A UN expert on human rights has repeated his call for the US to live
up to its international legal obligations and prosecute senior officials
who authorised the use of torture.
Ben Emmerson, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, said Eric Holder, the US attorney general, is under an international obligation to reopen inquiries into senior officials alleged to have breached human rights.
Asked whether George W Bush should be prosecuted, Emmerson told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that as a head of state he enjoyed special immunity, but other senior officials should face charges.
“Certainly those at higher levels involved in the commitment of an international crime, a crime of universal jurisdiction, are liable to be charged,” he said.
Read more: CIA torture report sparks renewed calls to prosecute senior US officials | US news | The Guardian
Ben Emmerson, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, said Eric Holder, the US attorney general, is under an international obligation to reopen inquiries into senior officials alleged to have breached human rights.
Asked whether George W Bush should be prosecuted, Emmerson told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that as a head of state he enjoyed special immunity, but other senior officials should face charges.
“Certainly those at higher levels involved in the commitment of an international crime, a crime of universal jurisdiction, are liable to be charged,” he said.
Read more: CIA torture report sparks renewed calls to prosecute senior US officials | US news | The Guardian
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