The Seoul central district court on Friday said Japan was liable to compensate 12 women who were forced to work as so-called “comfort women”, in a ruling that is expected to inflict further damage on the countries’ already fraught ties.
Some historians say that as many as 200,000 women – mostly Koreans, but also Chinese, south-east Asians and a small number of Japanese and Europeans – were coerced or tricked into working in military brothels between 1932 and Japan’s defeat in 1945.

The activist was killed by CSF Police Captain Yassin Muhammad Hatem Salah Eddin.

This army major was identified as Sherif Abdel Fattah, and was accused by journalist Rasha Azab to be one of those involved in the virginity tests and torture conducted against Tahrir women detainees, at the Egyptian Museum in March.