The United States has said that it is troubled by the decision of an Egyptian court to freeze the assets of human rights defenders.

“This decision comes against a wider backdrop of restrictions on Egyptian civil society activity and will produce neither stability nor security,” the State Department said in a press release on Wednesday.

The full text of the press release is below.

The former leader of Chad, Hissene Habre this week sought to appeal his conviction for war crimes committed during his rule in the 1980s.

Mr Habre was sentenced in Senegal in May 2016 to life imprisonment for instructing torture and mass murder during his time in office. 

Amnesty International called on the international community to expedite efforts in setting up a hybrid with international judges will try war crimes suspect in the Central African Republic, warning that “impunity on a staggering scale” exists in the country.

Radovan Karadzic’s senior advisor Jovan Tintor went on trial in Bosnian courts for charges of unlawful detention, torture, forced labour and murder of Bosniak and Croat victims.

Mr Tintor was the former president of the Crisis Committee of the Vogosca municipality. The charges against him outline eight counts of widespread and systematic attack against the non-Serb population in the municipality from April to August in 1992. He pleaded not guilty. 

Indian policemen raped or sexually assaulted at least 16 women in a 2015 operation against communist insurgents in Chhattisgarh, the country's human rights watchdog has found.

The National Human Rights Commission issued a notice to the Chhattisgarh state government that state police had raped and sexually or physically assualted at least 16 tribal women, with the testimonies of 20 victims still to be heard.

Israel will be cutting its contribution to the UN in protest of a Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.

Approximately six million dollars will be cut, which the country's UN mission says represents the portion of Israel's contribution allocated to 'anti-Israel bodies'.

Three French judges investing claims of rape perpetrated by French peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic (CAR) have not requested to bring charges.

A Paris prosecutor is to make the final decision whether charges should be laid – otherwise the case could be closed.

Ramush Haradinaj, former Prime Minister of Kosovo and guerilla commander during the Kosovo war, has been arrested in France on Serbian warrant.

“He was stopped by French authorities based on an arrest warrant issued by Serbia in 2004, which for us is unacceptable,” stated Kosovo’s foreign ministry. The ministry further stated that action is being taken to secure Haradinaj’s release.

A commission carried out by the Myanmar government rejected allegations of genocide against the Rohingya population in its interim report, published this week. 

The report described reports of human rights violations as "external allegations". Warning readers against believing "fabricated news and rumours", it said there was “insufficient evidence of mass rape”. 

An Israeli soldier was on Wednesday convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead an injured Palestinian. 

Sergeant Elor Azaria was found guilty by a three judge panel in a military court in Tel Aviv and will be sentenced on Sunday. 

The incident, which was captured on film by a Palestinian human rights activist, took place in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank on March 24. 

A United Nations study shows that Israeli authorities demolished or seized 1809 Palestinian owned structures in the West Bank in 2016.

Data collected by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs indicates that this is the highest since the collection of such data in 2009.

The Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy on Friday rejected the notion of a referendum on independence for Catalonia, responding to the Catalan's government's proposal to hold a referendum before September 2017. 

"It is not possible to hold a referendum that will do away with national sovereignty and the equality of Spaniards," he was quoted by Reuters as saying at a news conference. 

A former Bosnian police commander and then interior minister, Dragan Vikic has been charged for war crimes committed in 1992. 

Mr Vikic, along with three former officers is accused of killing eith Yugoslav People's Army prisoners of war who were captured after their vehicle broke down in Sarajevo in April 1992. 

Germany is to hold discussions with the Namibia government regarding an official apology and possible reparations for the genocide of the Herero and Namaqua people by German troops at the beginning of the 20th century, The Guardian 

Tens of thousands of Herero and Namaqua men, women and children were shot dead by troops or starved to death in camps. The  genocide is considered the first of the century.