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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.

Trial for collaboration in Ukraine. Photo: A Ukrainian woman is tried before a court in Dnipro.
Collaboration trials in Ukraine: what do court verdicts tell us?
11 July 2024 by Anastasia Zubova
From March 2022 to June 2024, more than 8,000 proceedings on collaboration crimes have been registered by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General. Last year, 790 verdicts were delivered. But the law on collaboration that was passed right aft [...]
Gacaca courts in Rwanda. Photo: Denis Bikesha, former director of training, mobilisation and sensibilisation for the gacaca courts in Rwanda after 1994. “You cannot transplant the gacaca court system”
9 July 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier + Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
July 17th, 2024 will mark the 30th anniversary of the official end of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Denis Bikesha is a former director of training, mobilisation and sensibilisation for the gacaca courts in Rwanda after 199 [...]
Universal jurisdiction in Germany and international law. Photo: Trial of Iraqi Taha Al-Jumailly in Frankfurt. Trial and error: Germany reforms its law on international crimes
8 July 2024 by Hannah El-Hitami
Through the use of universal jurisdiction, German authorities have prosecuted perpetrators of atrocity crimes in Syria, Gambia and Iraq. Now, the German parliament has passed a law to reform the Code of Crimes Against Internationa [...]
Palestine vs Israel: the legal battles. Photo: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. States vs ICC: the legal battles ahead on Palestine/Israel
5 July 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
What does complementarity between states and the International Criminal Court (ICC) actually means? What’s the test applied by the court? How did it evolve over the years? Do previous examples help understand the situation in Isra [...]
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Al-Hassan trial at the ICC - Photo: 3 judges of the International Criminal Court (Tomoko Akane, Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua and Kimberly Prost) sit in The Hague.
5 July 2024 by Lucy Gaynor
Is the ICC Al Hassan judgement a mess or the future? In their judgement against former Malian Jihadist Abdoulaziz Al-Hassan, the three judges of the International Criminal Court never fully agreed. And when two of them agreed, it wasn’t for the same reason. To many, it may look as a [...]
International law: exchange of prisoners between Sweden and Iran. Photo: Hamid Nouri speaks to the Iranian press on his return to Tehran.
4 July 2024 by Christian Catomeris
International law put to the test in prisoner exchanges On June 15th 2024, Sweden announced the exchange of two of its nationals imprisoned in Iran for Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian official sentenced in 2022 by the Swedish courts for his role in mass executions in Iranian prisons in 1 [...]
Will the Drummond case be referred to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (SJP) in Colombia? Photo: Construction machinery at work in a coal mine.
2 July 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The Drummond case, a corporate litmus test for Colombia’s transitional justice Colombian transitional justice’s range of action over civilians allegedly involved in serious crimes during the internal conflict is quite legally limited. But one case could strike out: the case against two top executives of Drum [...]
Illegal war - Photo: in Kiev (Ukraine), civilians watch the fire created by a Russian missile strike.
1 July 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
When war becomes illegal What do the International Criminal Court arrest warrants for the attacks on power plants in Ukraine tell us about the possible prosecution of war at international courts? After the ICC prosecutor issued two more warrants against R [...]
Sexual violence in Ukraine - Photo: Women stand at the door of their apartment building in the city of Lysychansk, a city without electricity and water, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.
28 June 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Prosecuting sexual violence in Ukraine’s war According to the United Nations, there’s been a pattern of sexual violence across Ukraine and the number and consistent reports of sexual violence and rape in Russian-occupied areas suggest “a widespread and systematic pattern com [...]
Acquitted twice in Finland on charges of war crimes in Liberia, Gibril Massaquoi is claiming more than 800,000 euros in financial compensation. Photo: Massaquoi, wearing a dark suit, laughs during an interview with Justice Info.
28 June 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier
Gibril Massaquoi tries for the jackpot Former Sierra Leonean rebel commander Gibril Massaquoi, twice acquitted by the Finnish courts, has filed a claim for compensation totalling around 815,000 euros for his lengthy detention. He has also taken legal action in Liberia, [...]
ICC / Mali - Photo: Abdoulaziz Al Hassan on the day of his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
27 June 2024 by Boubacar Sidiki Haidara
ICC/Mali: Al Hassan verdict leaves bitter taste On June 26, the International Criminal Court found Abdoulaziz Al Hassan, former head of the Islamic police in Timbuktu, Mali, guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes. But victims took badly his acquittal on all charges re [...]
Arrest warrant issued by the French courts against Bashar Al-Assad (Syrian President), in connection with the 2013 chemical attacks in Syria. Photo: Poster in a Syrian street showing Al-Assad with a gas mask over his face.
26 June 2024 by AFP
Setback for Bashar al-Assad before the French courts On 26 June, the Paris Court of Appeal allowed the arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accused of complicity in crimes against humanity for deadly chemical attacks in August 2013. This would be the first arrest war [...]
Trial of the massacre at Conakry stadium (known as the
25 June 2024 by Matthias Raynal
In Guinea, time for defence arguments in massacre trial In the Conakry stadium massacre trial, defendants’ lawyers have been taking the stand since May 27, 2024. Almost all the accused have already had their closing arguments. At the centre of attention in recent weeks has been former [...]
Arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against senior Russian military officers for crimes committed in Ukraine. Photo: Valery Gerasimov and Sergei Shoigu in military uniforms (Russia)
25 June 2024 by AFP
ICC: Arrest warrants for the heads of the Russian army On 25 June, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it had issued arrest warrants for Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov and former Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. They are both accused of war crimes for [...]
Enforced disappearances in Ukraine - The mother of the missing Andrii Shapoval shows a video of her son on her phone.
24 June 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova
Enforced disappearance in Ukraine: Andrii’s mother's tortured path On the morning of April 12, 2022, the day of his 28th birthday, Andrii Shapoval went to his friend’s grandmother’s house in Balakliya, eastern Ukraine, which was under occupation. He never returned home. Through this story, a Ukra [...]
In the Central African Republic, the eleven commissioners of the Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission (CVJRR) were dismissed in May 2024. Photo: The commissioners of the CVJRR pose outdoors.
21 June 2024 by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
Central African Republic: why the Truth Commission was dismissed The Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission (CVJRR) of the Central African Republic has been sacked and replaced. On May 3 2024, it saw a unit of the internal security forces close its offices. Later, the governme [...]
Gender apartheid for women in Iran and women in Afghanistan - Photo: a woman wearing a hijab walks down a street, closely followed by a Taliban patrol.
20 June 2024 by Julia Crawford
Crimes against Afghan women drive push to recognize “gender apartheid” Richard Bennett, UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan, told the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday that violations against women and girls in that country were “so severe and extensive” that “they may amount to crimes against huma [...]
International Central Securities Depositories (ICSDs): an option for financing Ukraine with Russian money. Image: photo montage of a rouble coin, a Ukrainian flag and frost.
18 June 2024 by Dominique Chabert and Frédéric Jouneau
Finding money for Ukraine: the return of a Cold War financial tool To eventually finance reparations, economic recovery, and especially the war effort in Ukraine, the European Union and G7 leaders seem agreed on using the windfall interest from Russian assets frozen by sanctions. But how? To unde [...]
Justice in Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - Photo: people displaced by the conflict between the local Kamwina Nsapu militia and government forces wait to receive food rations.
17 June 2024 by Caleb Kazadi
Kasai: how three senior officials escaped justice On June 1, a trial on the violent Kamwina Nsapu insurrection in Tshikapa (Kasai province) ended in a resounding flop. After a few days of hearings, the military court of former Kasai Occidental declared that it did not have jurisd [...]