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Month: July 2023

Albania arrests ex-rebel wanted by Hague Kosovo court
31 July 2023 by AFP
Albania on Monday arrested a former Kosovo rebel wanted by a Hague war crimes court for alleged intimidation and obstructing justice, the tribunal said. Dritan Goxhaj was detained in Tirana where authorities will now decide whethe [...]
Our best Justice stories - Justice Info takes a break. Publications resume on August 21. Our best justice stories (2022-2023)
31 July 2023 by Justice Info
Justice Info is taking a break and will resume publishing on August 21. This is an opportunity to offer you a selection of our best "justice stories" published since August 2022. Six articles where our journalists tell the story o [...]
Senegalese opponent vows hunger strike as lawyers lambast arrest
30 July 2023 by AFP
Firebrand Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko said Sunday he had started a hunger strike from custody after being arrested this week, as his lawyers condemned his arrest. Senegal's public prosecutor on Saturday announce [...]
Sudan fighters evict Khartoum residents, clashes in Darfur
30 July 2023 by AFP
Sudan's paramilitaries have ordered civilians to vacate homes in the capital's south, several residents said Sunday, as fighting between the forces of rival generals raged in the western Darfur region. "Members of the Rapid Suppor [...]
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Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda - A man is judged in the midst of the population in a
28 July 2023 by Justice Info
Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: causes, what happened, and justice From the colonial period to the tragedy of the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda, this small African country has witnessed a history marked by political violence and communal or ethnic tensions. Amid indelible traumas, the quest f [...]
27 July 2023 by AFP
Rockets hit Khartoum, air force base attacked Rockets pummelled the Sudanese capital on Thursday, witnesses said, as paramilitaries attacked a key air force base north of Khartoum and claimed to have killed and wounded "dozens" of soldiers. Residents reported "heavy artillery [...]
Trials of Ukrainian fighters in Russia - A bus leaves Lefortovo prison loaded with Ukrainian prisoners of war in preparation for an exchange.
27 July 2023 by Maria Koroleva
One year on, how Russia is starting to try Ukrainians Justice Info has calculated that at least 50 Ukrainians and foreigners have been or are being tried in Russia, Donetsk and Luhansk. War-related cases have started to abound more than a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Uk [...]
27 July 2023 by AFP
Iraq arrests suspect in 2014 IS massacre of cadets Iraq has arrested a suspect in one of the most notorious war crimes of the Islamic State group, the 2014 massacre of up to 1,700 captive cadets, authorities said Thursday. After overrunning the air force academy at Camp Speicher w [...]
26 July 2023 by AFP
Italy Senate names Ukraine Soviet-era famine 'genocide' Italian senators on Wednesday voted to recognise as "genocide" the 1930s starvation of millions in Ukraine under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, a move welcomed by Kyiv. The resolution, passed by 130 votes in favour, none against and [...]
25 July 2023 by AFP
Experts decry cover-up in case of Mexico's missing students Independent experts investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 Mexican students said Tuesday that the state was responsible for the concealment of vital information, making it impossible to continue their work. The commission, cre [...]
France-Cameroon commission - Can a commission of historians help the two countries on the road to reconciliation? Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Paul Biya speak at a press conference in Cameroon.
25 July 2023 by Julia Crawford
Colonial past: can a historians’ commission help reconcile Cameroon? Exactly one year ago, on 26 July 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a commission of historians to shed light on France's colonial past in Cameroon. One year on, this commission has barely got off the [...]
25 July 2023 by AFP
16 killed as homes hit in Khartoum air, artillery strikes Air strikes and artillery barrages from Sudan's warring generals killed at least 16 people in a Khartoum neighbourhood on Tuesday, a neighbourhood group reported. After more than 100 days of war, the latest bombardments added to a [...]
25 July 2023 by AFP
Three Palestinian militants killed by Israeli troops in West Bank Israeli troops killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest deaths in a surge of violence in the territory since early last year. "Three Palestinians have been kille [...]
25 July 2023 by AFP
Three Palestinians killed by Israel troops: Palestinian ministry Israeli troops killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest deaths in a surge of violence in the territory since early last year. "Three Palestinians have been kille [...]
25 July 2023 by AFP
Ukraine's war orphans turn to family to survive Karina, a seven-year-old war orphan who lives in Kyiv with her aunt, has vivid memories of life before her parents were killed fleeing invading Russian forces. "I remember mom and dad. Me and dad ate sausages," she says with a gig [...]
24 July 2023 by AFP
Ukraine claims drone attack in Moscow Ukraine on Monday claimed a drone attack in central Moscow, the latest in a series of strikes revealing Russian vulnerabilities, while Kyiv said Russian forces again hit grain facilities near Odesa. Russia last week pulled out of [...]
24 July 2023 by AFP
'Time for peace' in Sudan, Darfur: Rapid Support Forces envoy A top envoy to Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Monday said it was "time for peace" in Sudan and the Darfur region even as RSF's war with Sudan's regular army passed its 100th day. RSF representative Youssef Ezzat made [...]
Trial of alleged members of the Azov Battalion in Russia, at Rostov-on-Don.
24 July 2023 by Maria Koroleva
Ukraine: in Russia, alleged members of the “Azov” Battalion plead not guilty Most of the 22 prisoners of war – including 9 cooks – that Moscow considers members of the Ukrainian Azov battalion, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, July 19 during a trial in Rostov-on-Don (southern Russia). In this first, large [...]
24 July 2023 by AFP
Rights group says Mali army and foreign fighters executed civilians Human Rights Watch on Monday accused the Malian armed forces and "foreign" fighters believed to be from the Russian mercenary Wagner group of "executing" dozens of civilians during anti-jihadist operations. HRW said the abuses had [...]
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