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All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed are excluded from this list.

Sonko trial in Switzerland: former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko found guilty of crimes against humanity, including the murder of Solo Sandeng. Photo: Fatoumata Sandeng, daughter of Ousman Solo Sandeng, holds a sign reading “I am Solo”.
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Ousman Sonko gets maximum punishment

The trial against former Interior minister of The Gambia, Ousman Sonko, came to a wrap on May 15. The Swiss Federal Court of Bellinzona handed him a 20-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity. This is the highest sentence that can be given under Swiss law. Whilst lawyers of plaintiffs and activists described this as […]
By Mariam Sankanu (in Bellinzona, Switzerland)
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The Hotel des Mille Collines in Rwanda

Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial

Irina Navalnaya trial in Russia. Photo: Navalnaya adopts a dreamy, feminine pose behind the glass of the dock. The young Ukrainian woman is accused of terrorism.

Navalnaya’s case: how Ukrainian civilians are tried in Russia

Counting the victims - Photo: Yemeni children in a civilian builing destoyed during the war.

Counting the victims of a conflict: who does it, how?

Russell Tribunal (citizen's tribunal): interview with Guillaume Mouralis - Illustration: portrait of Guillaume Mouralis.

Guillaume Mouralis: “law and justice can be powerful tools of emancipation”

People’s Tribunal on the Murders of Journalists (Nieuwe Kerk, The Hague, Netherlands).

People’s tribunals: “Simply pressing a start button”

Crime of starvation in Gaza: will the ICC act? - Photo: Palestinians crowd around a food distribution point in Rafah.

Starvation and potential ICC warrants on Gaza: what does international law say?

Climate justice in Switzerland - Activists from the Senior Women for Climate Protection association welcome the ECHR verdict.

Switzerland condemned by the ECHR: a decisive step for climate justice in Europe

The Syrian lawyer Mazen Darwish talks to the media in Koblenz, Germany.

Darwish: collecting evidence, to avoid revenge and another war in Syria

Thomas Kwoyelo at his trial in Uganda

Kwoyelo: “At no time did I kill any one”

At the end of March 2024, officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) visited officials from Nigeria. Photo: around fifteen people pose.

The ICC on Nigeria: Years of words, but no action

Between Eritrea and the Netherlands, the nightmare of migrants who are victims of human trafficking. Photo: A migrant in a detention centre in Tripoli, Libya, stands with one hand on his cheek, almost appearing to be asleep.

Waiting for Eritrean human traffickers’ trials in the Netherlands

Portrait of Assumpta Mugiraneza, co-founder and director of the IRIBA Centre for Multimedia Heritage (Kigali, Rwanda).

Assumpta Mugiraneza: “The policy of memory in Rwanda must be reinvented, renegotiated”

Trial of a Russian soldier for war crimes near Kyiv, Ukraine - Photo: a Ukrainian civilian walks down the street while smoke is visible in the distance following a Russian shell strike.

War crimes in the Kyiv region: a Russian soldier sentenced to 12 years

In Chad, General Mahamat Idriss Deby, President of the transition, relaunches the issue of reparations for the victims of Hissène Habré's dictatorship. Photo: Idriss Deby, under escort, raises his hand to greet the crowd.

Chad: coup de théâtre for Habré's victims

On October 26, 1992, Interahamwe militiamen and extremist MRND militants flooded into Kigali's Nyamirambo district to demonstrate their support for the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR). The placard read:

At Belgian trial, two former Interahamwe leaders dodge testifying

From left to right, Aboubacar Diakité, known as

Guinea massacre trial enters the final stretch

A man looks at the names of genocide victims at the Mount Rebero memorial in Kigali.

At Rebero, political remembrance of the genocide

Major Gustavo Soto Bracamonte and Colonel Gabriel de Jesús Rincón, both indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, plant a black sage sapling at the launch of the environmental restorative pilot project near Bogotá, Colombia.

Colombia’s JEP unveils alternative sanctions but remains silent on punishment