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Universal jurisdiction

A legal principle that allows countries to prosecute individuals for crimes committed abroad.

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Feb 6, 2026

Can suspected pedophiles be prosecuted in Israel for crimes committed abroad under universal jurisdiction?

has tools to hold suspected child sex offenders accountable for crimes committed abroad—most obviously to foreign states and domestic measures restricting offenders’ movements and residency—but the pu...

Feb 2, 2026

What criteria do investigators use to distinguish disinformation from authentic survivor testimony?

Investigators use a layered, evidence-driven rubric to separate deliberate from genuine survivor testimony by combining , source and network forensics, documentary corroboration, and legal-context ana...