In the summer of 2019, the York Regional Police arrested approximately nine people with alleged links to the ‘Ndrangheta, an Italian mafia clan. In an operation called “Project Sindacato,” the police raided various locations seizing 27 homes, 23 sports cars, 11 gaming houses, gambling machines, luxury liquors, jewelry, and cash. By the time the raids came to an end, nearly $35 million in goods...
On February 24th, 2021, a German court sentenced Eyad al-Gharib, a former member of the Syrian regime’s intelligence service, to four and a half years in prison for aiding and abetting the torture of civilians. The court stated that the defendant had arrested at least 30 anti-government protestors at the beginning of the conflict in 2011, sending them to a facility where he knew torture takes...
On December 16 2020, HBO released a documentary titled The Art of Political Murder. The film is an in-depth look at the investigation that took place after the brutal assassination of Guatemalan Catholic Bishop Juan José Gerardi Conedera, who fought for justice and accountability after the end of the Guatemalan Civil War. He was murdered in 1998, shortly after presenting a report which identified...
Around 15 years after a suicide car bomb in Beirut killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others on February 14, 2005, the UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) in Ayyash et al. convicted Salim Ayyash, an operative in the Iran-backed Lebanese Shi’ite militant group Hezbollah. Ayyash was convicted of five charges including conspiracy aimed at committing a terrorist act...