Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Louis Moreno Ocampo, told the UN Security Council that charges against 3 members of the Libyan Government may include murder and unlawful detention, use of cluster bombs and rape as a weapon. The report concludes that alleged criminal incidents include security forces opening live fire at unarmed peaceful protesters, using rape as well as "systemic arrests, torture, killings, deportations, enforced disappearances and destruction of mosques" ...

On Wednesday,  U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz held a special briefing on the political situation in Libya and noted the fact that it is unlikely that Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi will end the violence as regime forces have "continued to commit atrocities in Misrata and the western mountains" in violation of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973.  He stated that the international community has met several times over the past several ...

About 200 officials from Syria's ruling Arab Socialist Baath Party have resigned in protest of the regime's violent repression of the country's protests. The defections were primarily from low-ranking officials from the Deraa area, and follows the resignation of some 30 officials in the city of Baniyas. At the United Nations, a Security Council draft resolution was condemning the crackdown was voted down by several members. Russia argued that ...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) released a statement saying that the Syrian government has committed "international crimes - that fall under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court."  FIDH said the international community, "must strongly condemn the gross and systematic violation of human rights by the Syrian authorities and urge them to put an immediate end to the violence."  They also called on the U.N. Security Council to ...