Turkish Protest Cases Merged Alongside Osman Kavala’s

August 9, 2021 — 08/09/2021 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – Turkey’s long-running Gezi Park protest trials, including the detainment of Osman Kavala, have been merged with another trial of the Çarşı group. The Çarşı group...

Syrian Mercenaries May Face Trial for Nagorno-Karabakh War

April 22, 2021 — 04/22/2021 Armenia (International Christian Concern) – Two Syrian men may face trial in Armenia for terrorism charges, accused of being among Turkey’s hired mercenaries to fight in the fall 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh...

Sudanese Protesters Have “No Objection” to Handing Bashir to International Criminal Court

November 5, 2019 — 11/05/2019 Nigeria (International Christian Concern) – Omar al-Bashir, the recently deposed dictator of Sudan, has been on trial for corruption charges in the country’s highest courts. The trial has been...

More Than 2000 Boko Haram Detainees’ Trials Start Soon

October 9, 2017 — ICC Note More than 2,000 Boko Haram detainees will be going before the court over the coming weeks. The people will be judged for their support of one of the...

Former Hong Kong EOC official loses gratuity fee in retrial over comments opposing same-sex marriage at church

September 30, 2017 — ICC Note: The former chief officer at the Equal Opportunities Commission in Hong Kong loses his gratuity due to his comments against same-sex marriage at his church. Mr. Josiah Chok...

Chinese activist Jiang Tianyong’s subversion trial appears to be staged

August 23, 2017 — ICC Note: Christian Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong, well known for his loud support of dissidents amid a nationwide crackdown on dissent, stood trial yesterday in Changsha, confessing that...

Chinese Christian human rights lawyer to stand trial

August 22, 2017 — ICC Note: Prominent Christian lawyer Jiang Tianyong, who took on sensitive cases such as defending practitioners of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, disappeared last November while visiting the family...

Sudanese Pastors Receive Court Date after 8 Months in Limbo

August 8, 2016 — ICC NOTE: Christian Sudanese pastors have finally been given court dates after sitting in limbo for the past eight months. Sudan has been notorious for arresting, detaining, and imprisoning Christian...

Closed Trials in China are Anything but Justice

August 4, 2016 — ICC Note: The trials of prominent human rights defenders in China this week have continued to be an absolute farce. No such thing as a "fair trial" has been granted...

Christian Trials put on Hold in Zhejiang Province

July 1, 2016 — ICC NOTE: Members of a church in coastal Zhejiang have had their trials postponed in an effort by their attorney to locate various witnesses in order to provide a strong...