A Rwandan priest living in the United Kingdom is being investigated by the Church of England, over allegations that he was a propagandist for the Rwandan government during the 1994 genocide.

Jonathan Ruhumuliza, who had been appointed by St Mary and All Saints church in Hampton Lovett, Worcestershire in 2005, is also accused of collaborating with another Anglican bishop in sending Tutsis to their deaths.

The third anniversary of the Bahraini anti-government protests has seen clashes between demonstrators and security forces.

Troops attacked protestors with birdshot and teargas, with several left wounded.

Amnesty International on Thursday condemned Bahrain's "relentless repression" of dissent and said it feared a violent crackdown.

A UN HRC Commission of Inquiry report will state that crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea and will call for the International Criminal Court to open an investigation, says the Associated Press having seen a leaked report.

A Commission of Inquiry, established by the United Nations Human Rights Council in March 2013, gives,

The acquittal of two high ranking Rwandan officials this week, who were convicted over their roles in the 1994 genocide, has angered Rwandan genocide survivors who have labelled the decision “outrageous”.

Israeli authorities have stopped the transfer of patients from the Gaza Strip to Israel and East Jerusalem, after they objected to their hospital transfer request forms bearing the letterhead which read “State of Palestine”.

A former commander with the Guatemalan Army has been stripped of his US citizenship and been handed a 10-year jail sentence after he was found to have lied about his role in massacres that took place in 1982, during the country’s brutal civil war.

54-year-old Jorge Sosa is accused of leading a counter-insurgency force of the Guatemalan military in 1982 known as the “Kabiles”. He is alleged to have overseen a massacre of over 200 civilians whilst leading a patrol in 1982, with members of the patrol also raping women and girls before killing them.

In a statement following the sentencing, Tamil American lawyer and the current acting Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice's Criminal Division Mythili Raman said,

"Jorge Sosa helped orchestrate the ruthless massacre of innocent villagers, including dozens of young children, and then lied about his past to obtain refuge in the United States."

"This prosecution demonstrates our resolve to deny safe haven to human rights violators and to ensure that these criminals are held accountable."

Sosa though, was only found guilty of failing to mention his role as a commander in the Guatemalan army on his US citizenship application papers. He was not charged over the massacre.

Responding to the sentencing Sebastian Elgueta, Guatemala researcher at Amnesty International, said,

“In addition to immigration violations, Sosa Orantes has a case to answer for war crimes. The US authorities must extradite him to Guatemala or prosecute him in the USA for crimes against international law.”

“Governments across the world have a responsibility to ensure those suspected of having committed human rights abuses face justice, wherever they are.”

9 former Serbian paramilitaries have been handed down jail sentences for their role in the massacre of over 120 ethnic Albanians in 1999.

The 9 members, part of the Serbian Jackals (Šakali) paramilitary group, were found to have murdered, raped and looted 4 villages in Western Kosovo, then a province of Serbia.

A United Nations spokesman confirmed the death of 11 people in Homs over the weekend, as hundreds more civilians were evacuated from the besieged city.

450 civilians were reported to have left Homs on Monday, as a truce between both parties was extended beyond the third day, a move welcomed by UN aid chief Valerie Amos.

The German news magazine Der Spiegel has claimed that German authorities have material suggesting that the Turkish secret service MIT was involved in the murder of three Kurdish activists in Paris last year.

The European Union has agreed to hold talks with Cuba to discuss restoring full relations with the Communist country.

Catherine Ashton, head of EU foreign policy, said that human rights remained "at the core" of relations with Cuba.

A pre-trial hearing to decide if there is enough evidence to convict Bosco Ntaganda of crimes against humanity, commenced at the International Criminal Court earlier today.
Ntaganda, a former commander with the M23 rebel organisation, faces 18 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor at the ICC told the hearing,