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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.

Commission of Inquiry into Torture and Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh. Photo: Muhammad Yunus, head of the interim government, visits a detention centre where torture is alleged to have taken place.
Bangladesh : “a widespread and systemic culture of torture”
21 July 2025 by David Bergman
Electric shocks, “rotating chairs”, waterboarding: the latest report by Bangladesh’s Commission of inquiry on enforced disappearances uncovers the former regime's chambers of horror.
Gender apartheid in Afghanistan - Photo: an Afghan woman shows off her party make-up (sequins) in close-up, after lifting her veil. Keeping Afghanistan’s gender apartheid on the map
18 July 2025 by Shaharzad Akbar
On July 8, judges at the International Criminal Court authorized arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan. Human rights activist Shaharzad Akbar explains their symbolic value.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has arrested a Libyan suspect who was the subject of a secret arrest warrant. Photo: Close-up of a ‘Polizei’ badge on the arm of a German policeman in uniform. ICC: a new chance for the Libyan case
18 July 2025 by AFP
On July 18, the International Criminal Court announced the arrest of a Libyan suspect in Germany. In hope that it doesn't go through the same humiliation as in Italy last January.
Protest for climate justice in front of the International Court of Justice (ICJ / The Hague, Netherlands) Waiting for Climate Justice
17 July 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
On July 23, the International Court of Justice will deliver an advisory opinion on the legal obligations of polluting states to combat climate change and protect the countries most affected. What were the arguments made before the Court?
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Justice in Guinea: reparations for victims of the 28 September 2009 massacre. Photo: A man in a suit hands a document to a woman in a courtroom.
17 July 2025 by Abdourahmane Bah
In Guinea, the disputed blessings of reparations It had been promised on March 26 by the military junta in power in Conakry. The payment of substantial reparations to the victims has begun.
In Colombia, kidnap victims come face to face with the FARC commanders responsible for these crimes. Photo: 7 former guerrilla commanders are seated, lined up in front of a desk and microphones, wearing white shirts and staring ahead. Behind them, a mural depicting people and animals.
15 July 2025 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Getting close to victims of kidnappings in Colombia During a public hearing in the mountainous village of Caicedo and then in Medellín, seven former regional commanders of the FARC started providing fragments of long-sought truths to their victims on a local level.
In Serbia, denial of the Srebrenica genocide could lead to a new conflict. Photo: A person walks past a mural depicting the former military leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Ratko Mladic, in a street in Belgrade, Serbia.
11 July 2025 by Refik Hodžić
30 years after: How denial can fuel a new conflict While the denial of the Srebrenica genocide has become official policy in Serbia and Republika Srpska it is now amplified by geopolitical alliances with countries that actively undermine international law, as Refik Hodžić explains.
30 years after Srebrenica: Serbia in genocide denial. Photo: In a Belgrade street, the following graffiti can be seen above a shop:
10 July 2025 by Massimo Moratti
30 years after: Serbia in denial about genocide The general mood in Serbia is far from commemorative. For the Serbian authorities, all parties committed crimes during the war, so no one is guilty.
Srebrenica 30 years on: who was convicted of the genocide? Photo: in the foreground, the inscription ‘Srebrenica - Juli 1995’ and in the background, a veiled woman meditates in front of the memorial displaying the names of the victims.
8 July 2025 by Nermina Kuloglija
30 years after: Who has been convicted of crimes in Srebrenica? A total of 54 people have been convicted for genocide and other crimes committed in Srebrenica. On the 30th anniversary of the genocide, Detektor, in collaboration with Justice Info, looks back at the main trials and judgments.
Syria / France - When French justice rethinks the impunity of heads of state. Photo: On the steps of the Elysée Palace in Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy and Bashar al-Assad smile as they shake hands.
7 July 2025 by Chloé Dubois
Heads of state immunity under debate On Friday, the highest court of France met to examine the arrest warrant issued in 2023 against former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad – challenged by the public prosecutor on the grounds of immunity protecting heads of state in office.
Destruction at Evin prison’s after Israeli air strikes, in Tehran (Iran).
4 July 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The right to self-defence: a growing phenomenon? “Our time, unlike during the Cold War, has seen a big broadening of the right to self-defence,” argues Samuel Moyn, professor of law and history at Yale University in this new Assymmetrical Haircuts podcast on how states grant themselves the right to break the law.
Teenagers recruited by the Russian FSB are arrested in Ukraine. Photo: 3 teenagers (faces blurred, hands behind their backs) are arrested by 2 Ukrainian police officers in front of a gate.
4 July 2025 by Anastasia Zubova
Ukraine: when the FSB recruits teenagers Russian services recruit teenagers to carry out operations on Ukrainian territory, as illustrated by the ongoing trials in central Ukraine. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the recruitment of children for acts of war is a war crime.
Crime of aggression: the States Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC) are due to meet in New York (USA). Photo: storm over Manhattan (NYC).
3 July 2025 by Janet H. Anderson
Crime of aggression: high pressure for ICC in New York The States Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC), who are meeting in New York next week for a special session on the crime of aggression, are facing exceptional diplomatic pressure.
Seven years of Colombia’s JEP (infographic)
1 July 2025 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Seven years of Colombia’s JEP 251 people charged, and 0 sanctioned. These two figures summarise both the amount of work involved and the still uncertain outcome of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia, seven years after its inauguration.
Bombing hospitals and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) - Photo : Hospital staff walk in the corridor of a hospital destroyed by an Israeli missile shell, in the Gaza Strip (Palestine).
27 June 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Bombing hospitals: an increasing violation of IHL Never before have hospitals and healthcare workers been so targeted in conflicts. In this new podcast, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts asked Cordula Droege, Chief Legal Officer at the ICRC, to explain why and how IHL provides hospitals with the highest level of protection.
Truth tents in Syria - Photo: in Eastern Ghouta (south-east of Damascus), a tent houses portraits of the disappeared while Syrians (often mothers accompanied by their children) speak out and seek the truth about the enforced disappearance and torture suffered by their loved ones.
27 June 2025 by Hannah El-Hitami
Truth tents: “Talking about what Syrians need right now”  In post-Assad Syria, the “truth tents” offer a space for victims’ families to discuss truth and justice. Jad al-Hamada, one of the truth tents’ initiators, speaks to Justice Info about the demand for transitional justice in Syria.
Aggression by Israel and the United States in Iran - Photo: portrait of a victim of an Israeli attack in a street in Tehran (Iranian flag and veiled woman walking while looking at her smartphone).
26 June 2025 by Alannah Travers
How the aggression against Iran has been normalised To understand the justifications given for Israeli and American strikes against Iran, one must look at Iraq and Syria, where a permissive environment for the crime of aggression we are witnessing today was modeled, explains Alannah Travers.
Enforced disappearances in Syria: a commission is set up - Photo: a man and a child in front of a billboard displaying portraits of missing persons.
24 June 2025 by Mustafa Haid
Syria’s Missing Persons Commission and the Risk of Marginalization (Part 2) The new Syrian authorities have established two commissions tasked with addressing past violence. What are the challenges faced by the Missing Persons Commission?
Transitional justice in Syria - Photo: Abdul Basit Abdul Latif, Head of the Syrian National Commission for Transitional Justice
23 June 2025 by Mustafa Haid
Syria's Transitional Justice Commission and the Peril of Partiality (Part 1) The new Syrian authorities have established two commissions tasked with addressing past violence. What are the challenges facing the transitional justice commission?