Congo's "Terminator" Jailed for 30 Years: Daily Brief
Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda jailed for 30 years for war crimes and crimes against humanity; six human rights activists unfairly jailed in Myanmar; Saudi hired Twitter spies to monitor critics; US cuts trading privileges with Cameroon over rights concerns; surprise as UAE helps host peace conference; Malaysia detains Cambodian activist; mourners shot dead at protestors' funeral procession in Guinea; and Hungary's hypocrisy over the EU...
The former Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda has been jailed for 30 years for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Fighters loyal to him carried out gruesome massacres, mass rape, sexual slavery, and used child soldiers. The sentence is the longest that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has ever handed down.
Six human rights defenders in Myanmar have been jailed for publishing a statement which criticized two Myanmar officials.
A District Court in the US city of San Francisco is hearing a case that concerns allegations of a coordinated effort by Saudi government officials to recruit employees at Twitter to spy on private Twitter accounts.
Cameroon has lost privileged trade access to the US market, with the Trump administration citing human rights concerns as the reason.
Collective eyebrows have been raised by news that the United Arab Emirates - currently waging war in Yemen - is sponsoring a peace conference.
Malaysia has detained a prominent Cambodian opposition leader, Mu Sochua, as she and other exiles planned a return to their homeland to challenge autocratic leader Hun Sen.
Three people have allegedly been shot dead in Guinea this week during clashes with security forces. The alleged killings occurred during a funeral procession to mourn those killed during an earlier round of anti-government protests.
And finally, demagogues like Hungary's Viktor Orban regularly denounce the European Union, but are more than happy to hoover up EU subsidies to line their own pockets.