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Turkey to Assad: Transition out or face the ICC
Turkey: Indict Assad over Syria photos
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says alleged Syria torture, killing photos represent "a crime against humanity"
The transcript of Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu can be found here.
By Mick Krever, CNN
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should take peace talks seriously and transition out of power, or face the International Criminal Court, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
Responding to photos that allegedly prove systematic torture and killing by the Syrian regime, Davutoglu, said “those photos are clear evidences … this is a crime against humanity.”
Davutoglu spoke with Amanpour from Montreux, Switzerland, where world powers are trying to broker an improbable peace in Syria.
Amanpour was the first to report, with the Guardian on Monday, on an investigation alleging that the Syrian regime is murdering prisoners on a mass scale. The investigation was authored by a team of international legal and forensic experts and based on thousands of photographs provided by a Syrian defector.
“All of those who committed this crime must be accountable,” Davutoglu said. “We should not be doing the same mistake like what happened in Srebrenica.”
“In Srebrenica some people tried to turn their eye and some tried to ignore Srebrenica for some time. But Srebrenica has happened and it was a shame for international community.”
EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev says acts portrayed in Syria torture photos are ‘crimes’
EXCLUSIVE: Medvedev on Sochi, Syria
Part one of Christiane Amanpour's exclusive interview with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
EXCLUSIVE: Medvedev on Russia's economy
Part two of Christiane Amanpour's exclusive interview with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
EXCLUSIVE: Medvedev on gay rights
Part three of Christiane Amanpour's exclusive interview with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
The transcript of Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can be found here.
By Mick Krever, CNN
The killings portrayed in photos allegedly proving torture of prisoners by the Assad regime are “crimes,” but it is not clear who is responsible and the claims must be proven in court, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview that aired Wednesday.
“These are crimes, of course,” Medvedev told Amanpour at his office outside Moscow, but the case “should have firm proof legally.”
“I know there are a lot of victims, and that's very sad, but that does not mean that the existence of victims or victims in a particular place is the proof that those are the victims of the regime and not the bandits who were doing something or any other force.”
The investigation alleging that the Syrian regime is murdering prisoners on a mass scale, first reported by Amanpour on Monday, was authored by a team of international legal and forensic experts and based on thousands of photographs provided by a Syrian defector.
The defector claimed to have worked as a photographer at a military hospital that received dead bodies from detention centers.
Amanpour showed Medvedev gruesome pictures of emaciated corpses and torsos covered from neck to groin in bludgeon wounds.
“You know, in my university where I was studying law, I was taught that until the fact of guilt is proved in court, a person cannot be claimed guilty,” he said.
“We cannot say that Assad is a criminal without investigation,” he told Amanpour. “So probably this other trial should be held on the territory of Syria after the conflict subsides. It's the right of the Syrian people.”
Bill Gates: The world is a better place than it’s ever been
By Mick Krever, CNN
To look at news headlines, it’s easy to get an impression that there’s nothing good in the world – it’s all protests, and car bombs, and civil wars.
To Bill Gates, the world’s foremost philanthropist, the headlines are hiding the truth.
“By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been.” he writes in his annual Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation letter.
“The good things are kind of quiet,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Tuesday.
“For example, poor countries getting richer – when I was born, most of the world was poor, and the rich countries were the exception. Now most people live in countries that are middle income.”
Blair ‘sickened’ by alleged Syria torture photos
Blair 'sickened' by Syria photos
Former UK PM Blair says he is "sickened" by pictures, first reported on by Amanpour, that allegedly prove Syrian torture
Blair not bothered by citizen's arrest
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair tells CNN's Hala Gorani he is not bothered by a waiter's attempted citizen's arrest.
By Mick Krever, CNN
Former British Prime Minister is “sickened” by gruesome photos that allegedly prove the torture and killing of thousands of prisoners by the Assad regime in Syria, he told CNN’s Hala Gorani, sitting in for Christiane Amanpour.
Amanpour broke the story in an exclusive report Monday. It is based on the work of renowned war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts who say a Syrian defector has provided the “smoking gun” of the Syrian regime’s “killing machine.”
“What’s happening there, and those pictures and those scenes that we saw, are just evidence of it – what is happening there is not going to stop at the borders of Syria,” Blair said. “And that’s what we’ve got to realize, I’m afraid.”
EXCLUSIVE: Gruesome Syria photos may prove torture by Assad regime
Syria's alleged 'killing machine'
Assad regime systematically tortured to death prisoners, including by forced starvation, new report by renowned experts alleges.
Analysing Syria's alleged torture report
Experts analyse a new report by renowned experts that alleges the Assad regime systematically tortured to death prisoners.
How will Syria react to torture allegations?
How will the Syrian regime respond to the new report by renowned experts alleging torture? CNN's Fred Pleitgen reports.
By Mick Krever and Schams Elwazer, CNN
(CNN) - A team of internationally renowned war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts has found "direct evidence" of "systematic torture and killing" by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the lawyers on the team say in a new report.
Their report, based on thousands of photographs of dead bodies of alleged detainees killed in Syrian government custody, would stand up in an international criminal tribunal, the group says.
CNN's "Amanpour" was given the report in a joint exclusive with The Guardian newspaper.
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE.
Democracy is going to the dogs
By Lucky Gold, CNN
In an arena that has long been a bastion of privilege and pedigree, participants can sniff a new whiff of freedom.
Imagine a world where democracy is literally going to the dogs.
In New York next month, the legendary Westminster Kennel Club will be hosting its 138th annual dog show – part beauty contest, part cut-throat competition – to determine America's top dog.
It's the canine crown jewel, famously parodied in the classic comedy film Best in Show.
Government surveillance stifles innovation, says Randi Zuckerberg
By Mick Krever, CNN
Making people feel like they are under surveillance is “one of the worst things you can do to stifle innovation,” Randi Zuckerberg – former Facebook marketing director and sister of its founder, Mark – told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.
“These companies are all free,” Zuckerberg said. “All they have is the trust of their users…As soon as people don't trust the platforms, they're not using it, they're off to the next one and everyone loses.”
From her perspective as a mother, however, she suggested government surveillance was not all bad.
“As a mom who wants to protect children online, there could definitely be some benefits,” she said.
Meet the first gay Nigerian to come out on TV
What is Nigeria's new anti-gay law?
Christiane Amanpour speaks with CNN's Vladimir Duthiers in Lagos, Nigeria about a new anti-gay law.
By Mick Krever, CNN
In 2004, Bisi Alimi did an extraordinary thing.
He went on national television and told his fellow Nigerians that he was gay.
Alimi lived in a country not only where open discussion of sex and sexuality is considered déclassé, but where 98% of his fellow citizens now say they do not approve of homosexuality.
“There were so many things we don’t talk about,” Alimi told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday. “My career was on the line, I was going to be outed by the media.”
It was better, he decided, to come out of the closet on his own terms.
“I have a responsibility to stand up for the community, to give a face to the community, to demystify the old arguments that there are no homosexuals in Nigeria,” he said.
Photographer describes his 81 days of captivity in Syria
By Mick Krever, CNN
The first five weeks of photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie’s captivity among Syrian rebels were the most difficult.
“They would force me to wrestle with them, to show me how tough they were, and they snapped my ribs on the right so I couldn’t breathe for a while,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
It was “just amusement” to them, he said.
“I was handcuffed for about five weeks, to a bed mostly; and the first three weeks, I was blindfolded.”
At least 29 journalists were killed in Syria last year, and some 60 others abducted.
Alpeyrie was kidnapped by an armed rebel group at a checkpoint near Damascus last April. He would be held for 81 days.
Stunning new footage of defiance emerges from North Korea
North Korea: "The Impossible State"
Christiane Amanpour speaks with Victor Cha, Former Director of Asian Affairs at the U.S. National Security Council.
By Mick Krever, CNN
A groundbreaking new documentary is using smuggled footage to paint a new and dramatic picture of the Hermit Kingdom, North Korea.
Much of the world sees North Koreans as brainwashed and subservient, bowing down to Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
The Frontline documentary “Secret State of North Korea” from the American public broadcaster PBS shows that for many people in North Korea, just the opposite is true.
“We saw lots of examples of people standing up to authority in ways that we hadn’t expected,” Director James Jones told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
One of the most dramatic pieces of footage was of a woman, who has set up a private bus service using a pickup truck.
“This soldier comes and tells her to stop running this private bus service, which is illegal,” Jones said. “And rather than, as you would expect, saying, ‘I’m so sorry,’ and apologizing, she stands up for it – I mean, literally chases him off down the street, smacking him on the back, calling him every name under the sun.”
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