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Complaint in Belgium over allegations of war crimes committed by foreign soldiers of the Israeli army in Gaza - Photo: an Israeli sniper seen from behind, in firing position at the top of a building.
Crimes in Palestine: Belgian justice takes an interest in its dual nationals
25 October 2024 | Universal jurisdiction | Palestine
Belgium is investigating two cases of war crimes committed in Gaza and the West Bank, under its universal jurisdiction. The latest case is causing a…
The Hotel des Mille Collines in Rwanda
Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial
14 May 2024 | Universal jurisdiction | Rwanda
The Brussels Assize Court, which is currently trying Belgian-Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina,…
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
22 April 2024 | Universal jurisdiction | Rwanda
Dieudonné Niyitegeka and Eugène Mbarushimana are the only two surviving former members of the National Committee of the Interahamwe, the militia that spearheaded the genocide…
Rwandan trial in Belgium - Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, the accused, drops defence of Georges Rutaganda, also accused of participating in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Photo: 2 portraits side by side.
Nkunduwimye drops defence of his friend Rutaganda
11 April 2024 | Universal jurisdiction | Rwanda
Emmanuel Nkunduwimye is accused in a Belgian court of having participated in the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda alongside his friend Georges Rutaganda, who…
Trial in Belgium of Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, accused of genocide in Rwanda. Photo: Nkunduwimye stares into the camera behind his discussing lawyers.
Belgian court to start new Rwandan genocide trial
8 April 2024 | Universal jurisdiction | Rwanda
The trial of Emmanuel Nkunduwimye is to start on April 8 before the Brussels Assize Court, 30 years after the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis…
Portrait of Vincent Lurquin: lawyer specialising in international justice (practising in Belgium), with a particular focus on the crimes committed in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.
Vincent Lurquin: "having the humanity to defend someone accused of the worst crimes"
9 January 2024 | Universal jurisdiction | Rwanda
For once, we meet Vincent Lurquin outside the courtroom. Without his robe but with the same debonair air that characterises him, the lawyer shares with…
Rwandan Séraphin Twahirwa and his two lawyers, Vincent Lurquin and Juliette Lurquin, at his trial in Belgium. He is on trial for his alleged involvement in the genocide in Rwanda.
"What judicial truth without material evidence?"
11 December 2023 | Universal jurisdiction | Rwanda
During their closing arguments, Vincent and Juliette Lurquin went out of their way to defend their client Séraphin Twahirwa, a Rwandan charged before the Brussels…
Séraphin Twahirwa at his trial in Belgium for genocide in Rwanda.
"They were founders of a ruthless militia in Kigali"
7 December 2023 | Universal jurisdiction | Rwanda
Pierre Basabosé and Séraphin Twahirwa were behind a group of murderous Interahamwe in the Gikondo sector of Kigali in 1994. This was the Belgian prosecutor’s…
Séraphin Twahirwa goes on trial in Belgium for his alleged role in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.
"There was no roadblock, there wasn’t the space"
17 October 2023 | Universal jurisdiction | Rwanda
The genocide trial of Rwandans Séraphin Twahirwa and Pierre Basabosé began in Belgium on October 9. During his first interrogation, Twahirwa denied any connection with…
Pierre Basabosé - His trial for genocide (in Rwanda) is taking place in Belgium at the Brussels Assize Court.
Pierre Basabosé is "mentally absent” but will be tried
21 August 2023 | Universal jurisdiction | Rwanda
Former Rwandan soldier and businessman Pierre Basabosé is less well known than Félicien Kabuga, whose trial was definitively stopped by a UN court on August…