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UK police asked to probe Indian officials’ role in Kashmir

By SYLVIA HUIJanuary 19, 2022 GMT

LONDON (AP) — A London-based law firm filed an application with British police Tuesday seeking the arrest of India's army chief and a senior Indian government official over their alleged roles in war crimes in disputed Kashmir.

Syrian ex-rebel sentenced for war crimes

February 26, 2015 GMT

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish court has handed a five-year prison sentence to a Syrian refugee who was found guilty of abusing a captured member of President Bashar Assad's forces.

Mouhannad Droub admitted being part of a group under the Free Syrian Army that kicked and beat a prisoner, whose hands and feet were tied, in late May or June 2012.