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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.

Entrance to the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) camp in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Two guards in uniforms bearing the letters ‘RAB’ stand guard at the entrance to the camp in front of a large black iron gate displaying the unit's coat of arms.
Crackdown on forced disappearance alleged perpetrators
17 October 2025 by David Bergman
Bangladesh seems to be tackling head-on the scourge of enforced disappearances under the former regime. On 8 October, 24 arrest warrants were issued against army officers allegedly responsible for crimes against humanity, and within a week, 13 had been detained.
In Liberia, heavily armed fighters from the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) are gathered around a wrecked car. One of them appears to be shouting angrily at another person further away. Belgium finally decides to try Martina Johnson
16 October 2025 by Tony Chalot
After 11 years of investigation, Belgian judicial authorities have closed a war crimes investigation against Martina Johnson, a former Liberian commander close to Charles Taylor. She is accused of torture and mutilation in the 1990s.
Joseph Kabila, former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was sentenced to death on 30 September. Photo: Kabila is seated in an armchair on a raised terrace. He faces several people with his hands folded. In the background: trees. Kabila: a trial to intimidate
14 October 2025 by Caleb Kazadi
Ithiel Batumike, a jurist at Congolese political research institute Ebuteli, answers Justice Info’s questions after the High Military Court in Kinshasa on September 30 handed down a death sentence on Joseph Kabila.
Trial in absentia in Ukraine. Photo: Two women stand in front of a destroyed house in the village of Lukashivka in Ukraine. Justice in absentia in a Ukrainian village
13 October 2025 by Natalia Naidiuk
What has justice been able to achieve for Lukashivka, a village of less than 400 residents in the Chernihiv region (North of Ukraine), three years and a half after its liberation?
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Ali Kushayb sentenced at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: Kosheib sinks into his chair as he hears the sentences handed down by the judges.
10 October 2025 by Margherita Capacci
Ali Kushayb, the convicted symbol of crimes in Darfur Followed by Sudanese in The Hague and in refugees’ camps near Darfur, offering finally “some relief” to the victims, the judgement handed down on Monday 6 October 2025 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, alias Ali Kushayb, remains an isolated act of justice.
International Court of Justice (ICJ). Photo: view of the court during the reading of the ruling rejecting Sudan’s complaint accusing the United Arab Emirates of complicity in genocide.
10 October 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
ICJ: instructions for a much-used tool Opening with Mali’s recent application against Algeria before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), this new podcast from our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts updates the practices and techniques used by the many states that resort to this busy court.
End of a hearing before the IRMCT, in The Hague, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia (ICTR and ICTY). In the background, Judge Iain Bonomy.
7 October 2025 by Lucy Gaynor
The many endings of the Kabuga trial When is a trial no longer a trial? When is a defendant no longer a defendant? When is a court no longer a court?
Ali Kushayb (former senior commander of the Janjaweed militia in Sudan) at the ICC
6 October 2025 by AFP
ICC: Kushayb guilty of crimes against humanity in Darfur In the first trial for the gravest crimes committed in Darfur, Sudan, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted a Sudanese militia chief for war crimes and crimes against humanity, on October 6, 2025.
According to a Dutch division of the OECD, in Peru, the Pluspetrol company (based in the Netherlands) allegedly exploited oil resources in violation of indigenous peoples' rights, without regard for the environmental impact. Photo: Protest march by the Quechua indigenous people in Peru. The protesters wear traditional accessories and face paint and carry spears in their hands.
6 October 2025 by Margherita Capacci
An alternative way to hold companies responsible How a Dutch panel established that an Argentinian oil company with headquarters in Amsterdam, Pluspetrol, violated the rights of Indigenous peoples in Peru.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, an investigation by the Center for Research on Public Finance and Local Development (CREFDL) has uncovered embezzlement from a fund set up to help victims in Kisangani: Frivao. Image: a graphic design shows the word ‘Frivao’ dissolving in liquid.
3 October 2025 by Caleb Kazadi
DRC: Should the Victims' Fund be dissolved? An investigation by the Center for Research on Public Finance and Local Development in Kinshasa has exposed the embezzlement of millions of dollars from Frivao.
Trial of former Vice President Riek Machar in South Sudan. Photo: Machar, seated in a comfortable chair, smiles at the photographer from behind bars.
2 October 2025 by Jehanne Henry
The risky trial of Riek Machar Until last March Riek Machar was the vice-president of South Sudan. He is now on trial for war crimes. And it’s not the first time justice is being instrumentalized for politics in the world’s younger state.
Mô Bleeker works for the UN on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) that falls to Member States where mass crimes are perpetrated (genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity). Photo: Mô Bleeker speaks (her hands are raised) during an interview with our journalist at a restaurant.
30 September 2025 by Julia Crawford
Mô Bleeker: “You don’t have to wait until it’s a genocide to react” What does the 2005 international commitment to Responsibility to Protect mean when atrocity crimes are committed in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere? An interview with the UN Secretary General’s Special Advisor.
In Myanmar, the Rohingya population was the victim in 2017 of crimes that could be linked to an intent to commit genocide, including the destruction of land and villages. Photo: a village burns while men armed with knives and slingshots pass in the foreground.
29 September 2025 by Janet H. Anderson
Myanmar: Making sure there is no return On September 29, the UN Fact-Finding Mechanism on Myanmar publishes a report on “the destruction and seizure of Rohingya homes, farms, mosques, and other property in 2017.” An integral part of the genocide, it says.
Rodrigo Duterte, former president of the Philippines, is on trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Photo : Duterte delivers a speech while he's displayed on a large screen behind him.
26 September 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Duterte, the ICC and the art of disinformation In this podcast, Benjie Aquino tells how the postponement of the Duterte trial at the ICC and the uncertainty on the whole process have increased the space for disinformation, rumors and wild speculations.
A UN investigation has established that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Photo: Navanethem Pillay (Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestine) speaks at the publication of the report. In the background, the logo of the United Nations.
25 September 2025 by Sharon Weill + Olivier de Frouville
Genocide in Gaza: What the UN Commission Says about Facts and Law and Why it Matters Israel’s Prime Minister is expected to address the UN General Assembly on September 26. A week after a UN independent inquiry established that his government was committing genocide in Gaza.
In Greenland, Denmark has implemented a forced contraception campaign (using IUDs). Photo: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen stand side by side in front of the press. They are preparing to issue a formal public apology to Greenlandic women.
23 September 2025 by Martine Lind Krebs + Astrid Nonbo Andersen
Denmark’s apology to Greenlandic women On September 24, Denmark will officially apologize to Greenland for the so-called “IUD campaign,” which claimed thousands of victims among Greenlandic women. Against the backdrop of the threat of American annexation.
The Sahel (Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso) leaves the ICC, under Russia's influence. Photo: Three Sahelian foreign ministers attend a press conference organised by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on 3 April 2025.
22 September 2025 by AFP
The Sahel leaves the ICC On September 22, Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. All three countries are ruled by military juntas supported by Russia.
In Colombia, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has handed down its judgement on 19 individuals (former FARC members and former military personnel). Photo: two JEP magistrates face each other.
22 September 2025 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: Two historical judgements and the questions they leave After seven years of work and four years since its pioneering indictments, Colombia's transitional justice tribunal – known as the JEP – finally handed down its first convictions
Rodrigo Duterte's trial at the ICC - Photo: In The Hague, in front of the offices of the International Criminal Court, a man holds up a poster of Duterte.
19 September 2025 by Tom Smith
How the ICC can make Duterte’s trial useful to Filipinos – or miss it Hearings in the case against former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court were postponed. Professor Tom Smith explains how the ICC trial could avoid being just a show trial.