{"id":12032,"date":"2026-05-03T11:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/03\/sydney-court-review-war-crimes-afghanistan-ben-roberts-smith\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:52:16","slug":"sydney-court-review-war-crimes-afghanistan-ben-roberts-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/03\/sydney-court-review-war-crimes-afghanistan-ben-roberts-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Court to Review War Crimes Case in Afghanistan Involving Former Australian Special Forces Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local court in Sydney, Australia, is scheduled to hold a hearing tomorrow (Monday, May 4) to review the case of Ben Roberts-Smith, a former special forces officer accused of committing war crimes during military missions in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to judicial authorities, the session will assess the extent of public access to information related to the case, as well as the manner in which the identities of witnesses to the events are disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The main purpose of the hearing is to make a final decision on a request for a &#8216;non-publication order&#8217; regarding the case details. This order had previously been issued on a temporary basis, and the court must now decide whether to extend or revoke it.<\/p>\n<p>The Roberts-Smith case is among the most prominent allegations of war crimes by foreign forces in Afghanistan, and the court\u2019s latest decision could affect the transparency of the proceedings and media access to the case details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney court will review the case of Ben Roberts-Smith, a former Australian officer accused of war crimes in Afghanistan, deciding on public access to information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}