He was a member of the feared Ansar Dine Islamic militant group that seized control of Timbuktu for almost a year from early 2012. During that time, women were arrested then raped in detention ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced the former head of the Islamic police in Mali's historic city of Timbuktu to 10 years in prison for war crimes. Prosecutors said al-Hassan ag ...

Prost ruled that Al Hassan contributed to the Ansar Dine regime, whose actions had a "traumatic effect on the population of Timbuktu". The people "lived in an atmosphere of fear, violence ...