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Botany

(76,896 posts) Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:56 AM 12 hrs ago

Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say

Feb 17 (Reuters) - Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a "global criminal enterprise" that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, according to a panel of independent experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the U.S. Justice Department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption and extreme misogyny

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The crimes, they said, showed a commodification and dehumanization of women and girls.

"So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity," the experts said in a statement.

The experts said the allegations contained in the files require an independent, thorough and impartial investigation, and said inquiries should also be launched into how it was possible for such crimes to be committed for so long.

https://www.reuters.com/world/allegations-epstein-files-may-amount-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts-say-2026-02-17/

ATTN Ohio State University it might be the right time to take down all those Wexner signs.

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Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say (Original Post) Botany 12 hrs ago OP

And, for some, treason. Joinfortmill 12 hrs ago #1

Epstein Files Suggest 'Torture, Murder and Other Crimes Against Humanity' Kid Berwyn 12 hrs ago #2

I wonder how Fox and the Republicans are going to find a way to blame the democrats for the U.N.'s .... Botany 12 hrs ago #3

The Epstein Class includes Larry Summers and more profits-over-the-people types. Kid Berwyn 11 hrs ago #4

Joinfortmill

(20,728 posts)

1. And, for some, treason.

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Mon Feb 23, 2026, 12:07 PM

12 hrs ago

Kid Berwyn

(23,906 posts)

2. Epstein Files Suggest 'Torture, Murder and Other Crimes Against Humanity'

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Mon Feb 23, 2026, 12:27 PM

12 hrs ago

UN experts call for powerful figures to be prosecuted.

by Joshua Carroll
novaramedia.com, 20 February 2026

The abuses detailed in millions of recently released files relating to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein could amount to crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN human rights council has warned.

The files contain evidence of some of the “gravest crimes under international law” including sexual slavery, reproductive violence, enforced disappearances, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment and femicide, the experts said in a statement earlier this week.

There is “disturbing and credible evidence” of a possible “global criminal enterprise involving systematic sexual abuse,” they added.

“So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,” they said.

“These crimes were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption, extreme misogyny, and the commodification and dehumanisation of women and girls from different parts of the world,” they added.

The UN panel called for independent and impartial investigations into the allegations contained in the files, adding that it was not enough for powerful people to resign.

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https://novaramedia.com/2026/02/20/epstein-files-suggest-torture-murder-and-other-crimes-against-humanity/

PS: Thank you for the OP and thread, Botany! While about half the country still hasn't gotten the full picture, we've got time to fill them in before November.

Botany

(76,896 posts)

3. I wonder how Fox and the Republicans are going to find a way to blame the democrats for the U.N.'s ....

Reply to Kid Berwyn (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 23, 2026, 12:39 PM

12 hrs ago

work on the Epstein files? And how did those U.N. workers go back in time to plant evidence
in the Epstein files?

My 2 cents:

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=21041349

Kid Berwyn

(23,906 posts)

4. The Epstein Class includes Larry Summers and more profits-over-the-people types.

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Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:10 PM

11 hrs ago

Frontline on Brooksley Born:

As head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC], Brooksley Born became alarmed by the lack of oversight of the secretive, multitrillion-dollar over-the-counter derivatives market. Her attempts to regulate derivatives ran into fierce resistance from then-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and then-Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who prevailed upon Congress to stop Born and limit future regulation.

This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on Aug. 28, 2009:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/interviews/born.html

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