Bangladesh's Supreme Court rejected an appeal to scrap the death sentence handed to a senior Islamist leader, who was found guilty of genocide by a domestic war crimes tribunal.

Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, assistant secretary general of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party has now lost his final appeal against the sentence, which was given last year for crimes committed during the Bangladeshi 1971 war of independence.

The decision was criticised by Brad Adams, Asia director of Human Rights Watch who said, “Bangladesh’s war crimes trials have been plagued by persistent and credible allegations of fair trial violations that require impartial judicial review.”

Kenyan air force jets have targeted two al-Shabab camps in Somalia, in response to the killing of 148 people at Garissa University in Kenya last week.

"Our aerial images show that the camps were completely destroyed," said Kenyan army spokesman David Obonyo. "The bombings are part of the continued process and engagement against al-Shabab, which will go on," he added.

A court in Bahrain has adjourned a case involving one of the country’s most prominent human rights activists, who was arrested after he posted comments on Twitter criticising airstrikes being carried out by the Bahraini government in Yemen.

The government of Myanmar officially apologised to China for a cross-border bombing attack which killed 5 Chinese nationals earlier this month.

Xinhua reported Myanmar’s Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin as saying, “on behalf of the Myanmar government and military, I officially apologise to China and express my deep sympathy to the families of the victims and the injured.”

The bombing raid in Myanmar’s northeast came as the Burmese government battled against ethnic Kokang militants. China had immediately summoned Myanmar's ambassador, Thit Linn Ohn, to complain about the bombing and warned of “decisive action” at the time.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, has criticised a law passed by Thailand’s ruling military junta, labelling it a move “even more draconian” than martial law.

Whilst Thailand’s junta lifted martial law this month, article 44 of the interim charter allows Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, “to issue any legislative, executive or judicial order”.

“Normally, I would welcome the lifting of martial law – and indeed strongly advocated for it to be lifted in Thailand,” said Mr Zeid. “But I am alarmed at the decision to replace martial law with something even more draconian, which bestows unlimited power on the current Prime Minister without any judicial oversight at all.”

A French court is reportedly set to release a man accused of involvement in the Rwandan genocide, refusing to extradite him to face charges in Rwanda.

France’s appeals court ruled in favour of Claude Muhayimana, who was arrested in northern France in 2010.

The court stated that since the crime of genocide was not on Rwanda’s statute books 1994, Mr Muhayimana cannot be sent back to the country to face charges relating to genocide.