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Several hundred protesters gather outside a Stockholm court carrying photos of the dead as the trial of a former Iranian prison official accused of involvement in the 1988 execution of thousands of political dissidents starts in Stockholm. Protesters are calling for justice for the estimated 5,000 prisoners killed across Iran, allegedly under the orders of supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini in reprisal for attacks carried out by the MEK at the end of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. IMAGES
The trial of a 100-year-old former concentration camp guard, the oldest accused of Nazi crimes ever tried in the country, opens in Germany. Josef Schütz, a former master corporal in the Waffen-SS's "Totenkopf" (Death's Head) division, is on trial for "knowingly and willingly" assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners when he operated in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, not far from Berlin, between 1942 and 1945. IMAGES
Ramush Haradinaj, who resigned as Kosovo's Prime Minister, arrives at the Kosovo special court in The Hague to be questioned on suspicions of war crimes. Jakup Krasniqi, former president of Parliament and former spokesman for the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK), is also appearing at the tribunal. The EU-backed special war crimes court for Kosovo was established in 2015 to try war crimes allegedly committed by ethnic Albanian guerrillas against minority Serbs and Roma and local Albanian political opponents during and immediately after the 1998-1999 independence war against Serbia. IMAGES
Former Bosnian military commander Naser Oric, hailed by supporters as the heroic "defender of Srebrenica", is acquitted of war crimes during the country's 1990s conflict. The ruling sparked mixed reactions in the country deeply divided along ethnic lines -- slammed by ethnic Serbs as an "amnesty for war crimes" and welcomed by Muslims as the "final victory of justice". IMAGES
Emergency services arrive at the UN war crimes court after a stunning drama saw a former Bosnian Croat military leader appear to drink poison seconds after judges upheld his 20-year sentence. IMAGES