All Justice Info articles since 2015
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.
Register of Damages for Ukraine: “The biggest claims program in history”
14 June 2024
by Tjitske Lingsma
Since 2 April, the Register of Damages for Ukraine, created by a resolution of the Council of Europe, is open for claims for houses damaged or destroyed by Russian aggression. In the coming months, persons, the state and legal ent [...]
13 June 2024
by Franck Petit
Surrounded, starving, under artillery fire and awaiting an imminent offensive by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), El-Fasher, the capital of Darfur, is “hell on earth”. On Tuesday 11 June, the prosecutor of the International Crimina [...]
11 June 2024
by Iryna Salii
Over 60 dead and 160 wounded. Ukrainian and foreign combatants. The missile attack on a Ukrainian military training centre in Yavoriv, western Ukraine, on March 13, 2022, was widely reported at the start of the all-out invasion. I [...]
10 June 2024
by AFP
He helped the killers “with full knowledge of the facts”, ruled the jury in the seventh Rwandan universal jurisdiction trial to be held in Belgium. Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, brother-in-law of Interahamwe militia leader Georges Rutagan [...]
10 June 2024
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Pascal Hamenyimana and the timid reintegration of a former “génocidaire”
Back in his village after serving a 15-year prison sentence for complicity in genocide, ex-convict Pascal Hamenyimana is gradually returning to a normal life, thanks to the welcome, the moral and financial support of several survi [...]
7 June 2024
by Veronica Bellintani + Adrian Lakrichi + Mouhanad Sharabati
Why isn’t the ICJ bolder on Syria?
One year after the June 8th 2023 complaint and six months after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered measures against the Syrian government, torture and human rights violations are still committed as reported by the UN [...]
6 June 2024
by Benjamin Bibas
Why South Africa is fighting for Palestine in The Hague
“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians,” said Nelson Mandela. At a time when the party he brought to power at the end of apartheid has just lost its absolute majority, these words [...]
4 June 2024
by Olivier Truc
Lundin trial: the prosecutor counter-attacks
In Stockholm, the trial of Lundin oil company executives accused of complicity in war crimes in Sudan between 1997 and 2003 is now giving the stand to witnesses. But before that, the prosecutor, under fire from the defence for the [...]
3 June 2024
by Franck Petit
Syrian trial: what to learn from this first default judgment
In the four-day Syrian trial in Paris, judges on May 30 gave their reasoning for the verdict handed down on May 24. In a symbolic recognition for victims, three high-ranking Syrian security officials - Ali Mamlouk, Jamil Hassan an [...]
31 May 2024
by Tetiana Fedorkova
Oleksander Radchenko, a patriot or a collaborator?
Former businessman and politician Oleksander Radchenko is currently accused of complicity with Russia during the occupation of Kupiansk, in eastern Ukraine. The founder and CEO of the Kupiansk Milk Canning Factory was detained for [...]
30 May 2024
by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
At Ndélé’s first trial, in the Central African Republic
On December 5, 2023, the Special Criminal Court (CPS), a UN-backed hybrid tribunal based in Bangui, opened its second trial, devoted to the so-called “Ndélé 1” case, a conflict between communities that claimed the lives of over 80 [...]
28 May 2024
by Matthias Raynal
In Guinea, the prosecution asks for life sentences
On trial for the 2009 massacre in Conakry stadium, former junta leader and ex-president of Guinea, Moussa Dadis Camara, risks life in prison, as the prosecutor requested at the end of his closing arguments. Six other accused risk [...]
27 May 2024
by Aaron Weah
The evidence battleground for Liberia’s war crimes court
On May 2nd 2024, Liberian president Joseph Boakai signed an executive order to establish a War and Economic Crimes Court – a historic and long-awaited move in the path of redressing the wounds of the country's 1989-2003 destructiv [...]
24 May 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
ICC’s Khan goes after Israel and Hamas
This is the biggest event they have covered in international justice, acknowledge Stephanie van den Berg and Janet Anderson, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts. On May 20 the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [...]
24 May 2024
by Franck Petit
In France, a first Syrian trial “by default”
The trial of three high-ranking Syrian officials opened on 21 May before the Paris Assize Court. Tried in their absence, they are charged with complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes. A symbolic trial for France. And [...]
23 May 2024
by Tjitske Lingsma
Is Booking.com profiting from war crimes in Palestine?
On May 23, a collective of European and Palestinian NGOs made public a criminal complaint against Booking.com in The Netherlands. They accuse the company of money laundering in connection to war crimes, as the enterprise profits f [...]
21 May 2024
by Janet H. Anderson
Behind the scenes of the ICC Prosecutor’s coup d’éclat
This is the first time a prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has requested arrest warrants against a sitting Western-backed head of state. Pressure is now on judges at the ICC to confirm (or not) the prosecutor’s applic [...]
21 May 2024
by Thierry Cruvellier
Israel/Palestine: the moment of truth
On 20 May, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court asked the judges to issue arrest warrants for crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Israeli Prime Minister and Defence Minister alongside three major leade [...]