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Switzerland fire latest: Bar managers under criminal investigation as police provide first details on victims

CloseWitness to Swiss blaze 'shocked for life' after seeing victims burningSwiss authorities have opened an investigation into two managers of the bar where a fire at a New Year's party left 40 people dead.
The two are suspected of negligent homicide, negligent bodily harm and causing fire by negligence, police said in a statement, days after the deadly blaze at Le Constellation in the popular ski resort of Crans-Montana.
Swiss authorities have identified the first eight victims from the devastating Le Constellation bar fire as Swiss nationals aged between 16 to 24 years.
Sparkler candles on champagne bottles have been identified as the likely cause of the incident that also injured 119.
The families of the 40 killed in the New Year's Eve fire have faced an agonising wait for information, with several saying they have been given no details at all in the days since.
“I'm living a nightmare, a nightmare. Either I find my son in the morgue, or I find him in critic..

New Israeli death penalty law is ‘cruel’ and discriminates against Palestinians, say human rights groups

Israel’s new death penalty law is “cruel” and will unfairly target Palestinians, human rights organisations have warned.
The Knesset, Israel’s legislature, passed a law on Monday which would make death by hanging a default sentence for terrorism-related offences, particularly impacting West Bank Palestinians. The death penalty for ordinary crimes has been abolished in Israel since 1954 and the country has not carried out executions since 1962.
The passage of the bill marks the culmination of a years long drive by the Israeli far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offences against Israelis.
It will also give Israeli courts the option to impose the death penalty on Israeli citizens convicted of similar charges, although legal experts have warned the language of the bill effectively confines those who can be sentenced to death to Palestinian citizens of Israel and excludes Jewish citizens.
The law will not apply retroactively to any prisoners Israel..

Judge orders ICE to improve Chicago ‘prison’ after immigrants break down in court describing ‘black hole’ inside

A federal judge has ordered Homeland Security officials to improve conditions inside a Chicago-area immigrant detention facility where detainees say they are treated “worse than animals” and packed into unsanitary holding cells “like a pile of fish.”
Wednesday’s temporary restraining order from District Judge Robert W. Gettleman follows several hours of courtroom testimony from five people who have been crammed inside the Broadview Processing Center, a focal point for protests against Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
“It has really become a prison,” Gettleman said during a hearing Tuesday.
In court filings and in haunting courtroom testimony, detainees described being forced to sleep sitting upright or on urine-soaked floors next to clogged toilets under bright lights. “It was too much,” one person said while crying on the stand.
“Broadview is a black hole, and federal officials are acting with impunity inside its walls,” according to a lawsuit brought by civil rights groups on ..