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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 (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.

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Lundin’s defence makes their case
4 May 2026 by Martin Schibbye
Two and a half years after the Lundin trial opened in Stockholm District Court, Ian Lundin’s defence opened its final argument by attacking the very foundation of the prosecution’s case. Here’s a detailed account of their position.
In Syria, under Bashar al-Assad’s regime, torture was rife in Branch 251 prison (or Al-Khatib). Today, Syrians are seeking justice for these crimes. Photo: a very cramped cell, painted entirely red and covered in Arabic inscriptions. How to deal with alleged perpetrators who changed sides?
30 April 2026 by Hannah El-Hitami
The trial of Syrian former prison guard Fahd Al-Hamid opened in Germany on April 27. And as in several other universal jurisdiction trials, it poses the question whether those who defected and shared crucial information should face prosecution.
Dead Men Walking - Episode 2: International Law
28 April 2026 by Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)
In this second episode of our new podcast, "Dead Men Walking", produced by the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) in collaboration with Justice Info, we turn our attention to international law.
First transitional justice trial in Syria. Photo: Atef Najib (a former senior official in Bashar al-Assad’s regime), wearing a striped prison uniform and with a shaved head, stands in the dock behind bars. “Today marks the beginning of the first transitional justice trial in Syria”
28 April 2026 by Karam Amer
On April 27 Major General Atef Najib, the former Head of a Political Security Branch under the Assad regime, appeared for the first time before his judges in Damascus. The moment felt historical, and loaded with anger and uncertainty.
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In Iran, portraits of victims believed to have been killed in a US-Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Tehran are on display in the street in front of the destroyed building. Flowers have also been placed on the ground.
27 April 2026 by Louis Perez
AI, international law, and the Minab test The war in Iran highlights the U.S. and Israeli militaries’ reliance on military artificial intelligence. Yet the bombing of a school in Minab, which killed 170 civilians, did not set off any alarms.
In Iran, the population is both a victim of US-Israeli aggression and a victim of repression by the Iranian regime. What hope is there for justice? Photo: Two Iranians walk past a mural commemorating schoolchildren from Minab who are believed to have been killed by a missile. School desks and benches are laid out on the pavement.
24 April 2026 by Julia Crawford
Iranians between a rock and hard place Since February 28, 2026, Iranians have found themselves targeted by two opposing forces: US-Israeli airstrikes and aggression; and their own government, which has stepped up repression. What hopes for justice?
Brussels Courthouse in Belgium.
23 April 2026 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Belgian Waffling on Universal Jurisdiction In 2003, Belgium went from one of the great hopes for all accountability campaigners into a relatively minor player in the field. Why? Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts talk to lawyer and scholar Mathias Holvoet.
In The Gambia, Tamsir Jasseh served under the former (fugitive) dictator Yayya Jammeh. He is testifying in a national trial against one of Jammeh’s “junglers” (militiamen): Sanna Manjang. Photo: Jasseh, in a suit, speaks into the microphone at the The Gambia Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRRC).
23 April 2026 by Mustapha K. Darboe
The discomfort of Gambia’s transition A new witness in the trial of former hitman Sanna Manjang is working under the authority of a man who sat on the panel that had sent him to prison back in 2006. Showing the limits of the vetting procedure in Gambia’s post dictatorship.
Ben Roberts-Smith, a former member of the Australian Special Forces, is accused of war crimes in Afghanistan. Photo: Roberts-Smith approaches the entrance to a court in Australia, dressed in a suit, as cameras film him.
21 April 2026 by Maxim Shanahan
Roberts-Smith’s arrest: one more cautious step towards trial Federal Police boarded a commercial flight in Sydney, on April 7, to arrest Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s highest-profile and most-decorated former soldier. It marked a new step in a war crimes investigation that began more than five years ago.
Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, stepped down from his post at the ICC pending an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against him. Photo: Khan, wearing a casual shirt, delivers a speech in Sudan.
20 April 2026 by Janet H. Anderson
How Khan’s investigation “mess” creates factions The investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by the International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan is not over. With scarce official information, the court members and the bubble of lawyers and NGOs taking an interest in the issue is now fracturing in different camps.
Toussaint Muntazini Mukimapa has been sworn in as a prosecutor at the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic.
17 April 2026 by Franck Petit + Rodrigue le Roi Benga
CPS, the other “headless” court Following the death of its chief prosecutor, the Special Criminal Court (CPS) in Bangui is operating without a chief prosecutor and without an approved budget for 2026. While many cases are ready to trial.
Some of the crimes committed during the ongoing war in Sudan (including in Darfur) could be ‘hallmarks of genocide’. Photo: a Sudanese refugee under a makeshift shelter in a camp in Darfur.
16 April 2026 by Julia Crawford
Three years on, Sudan war has “hallmarks of genocide” April 15 marked three years since the start of the current conflict in Sudan. We look at the crimes and prospects for justice with Mona Rishmawi, from the UN’s Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan.
14 April 2026 by Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)
Dead Men Walking - Episode 1: The International Criminal Court This first episode of « Dead Men Walking », a new podcast produced by the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) in collaboration with Justice Info, scrutinizes the International Criminal Court (ICC), one of the most embattled international institutions of our time.
Lafarge trial in France over crimes committed in Syria: the two executives, Bruno Lafont and Christian Herrault, have been found guilty. Photo: Bruno Lafont in court on the day of the verdict.
14 April 2026 by Chloé Dubois
Tough verdict against cement group Lafarge In a landmark ruling on corporate liability, a French court on April 13 found cement giant Lafarge guilty of financing terrorism in Syria.
In Syria, the National Defence Forces (NDF) are a militia accused of committing crimes such as torture, sexual violence and enforced disappearances. Photo: NDF members hanging a portrait of Bashar al-Assad on the wall of a building.
13 April 2026 by Margherita Capacci
Syria: sexual violence in detention on trial in the Netherlands A new Syrian trial began on Wednesday 8 April in The Hague. Rafiq al Q. is the most senior alleged official with close ties to Bashar al-Assad’s regime to be tried in the Netherlands, on charges of sexual violence classified as a crime against humanity.
Former Lafarge CEO Bruno Lafont leaving the courtroom at the opening of the trial of the French cement group Lafarge and eight individuals, including former executives, accused of financing terrorism in Syria, at the Paris court.
10 April 2026 by Sharon Weill
Lafarge trial: A step beyond Nuremberg?  The verdict is expected on Monday 13 April in the Lafarge trial, in which the French cement manufacturer, as a legal entity, is accused of having financed terrorist organisations in Syria, along with eight of its former executives.
Aleppo courthouse, with people entering the building during the first hearing of the trial on the March 2025 violence on the Syrian coast, photographed in November 2025.
9 April 2026 by Bushra Alzoubi
Aleppo trial: a test for the future of justice in Syria In Aleppo, the trial related to violence that rocked the Syrian coast in the spring of 2025 continues, amid a mix of impatience, international pressure and procedural caution – in particular when it comes to affiliates of the new regime.
People searching a trench suspected of having been used as a mass grave, on the outskirts of Damascus, on December 16, 2024, looking for human remains.
7 April 2026 by Karam Amer
Syria: a Commission for the Missing “still at the experimental stage” Syria’s National Commission for the Forcibly Disappeared was created in May 2025. Almost a year later, it’s facing all sorts of challenges and is already struggling to maintain both public trust and clear governmental support.
Environmental protest in Belgium for the recognition of ecocide as an international crime. Photo : Brazilian indigenous and other militants hold signs readind
2 April 2026 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Ecocide: Waiting for the ICC The activists who lobbied to have ecocide included in the Rome Statute will have to rely on ICC’s provisions that categorize environmental crimes as war crimes or crimes against humanity. This is what explains, in this new podcast, Colombian lawyer Laura Baron-Mendoza who has contributed to a recent ICC’s policy paper on the matter.