News Round-Up Tuesday 6 August 2013

• HRW reports that the Assad regime in Syria is using ballistic missiles, incapable of being in a discriminate fashion, in populated areas. 

• ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda reportedly found reason to believe that Boko Haram in Nigeria have committed crimes against humanity.

• Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal has granted bail to 73-year-old Syed Mohammad Qaisar on account of his poor physical condition.

• US Army officer convicted of ordering the fatal shootings of 2 Afghans, who the defense argued were presumed Taliban because they were on a motorcycle.  

• UK Home Office finds "strong grounds" to believe that 112 persons in its territory are war criminals.

• In Cote D'Ivoire, authorities have provisionally released 14 supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo detained following the 2011 post-election violence that killed 3,000, in a move that is expected to ease tensions.

• Declassified papers show existence of secret detention facility in Northern Ireland in early 1970s which appears to have been withheld in previous ECHR case and 2 UK Govt inquiries.