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Will there soon be trials for Yahya Jammeh's crimes in Gambia? - Photo: Gambian President Adama Barrow adopts a wait-and-see stance at a meeting of African countries belonging to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Gambia: the end of the wait-and-see strategy?
17 May 2024 by Mariam Sankanu
On April 22, two bills expected to kickstart the prosecution process for crimes committed under the 22-year rule of former President Yahya Jammeh were passed at the Gambian Parliament. They should make it possible to establish a h [...]
Sonko trial in Switzerland: former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko found guilty of crimes against humanity, including the murder of Solo Sandeng. Photo: Fatoumata Sandeng, daughter of Ousman Solo Sandeng, holds a sign reading “I am Solo”. Ousman Sonko gets maximum punishment
16 May 2024 by Mariam Sankanu
The trial against former Interior minister of The Gambia, Ousman Sonko, came to a wrap on May 15. The Swiss Federal Court of Bellinzona handed him a 20-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity. This is the highest sentence [...]
The Hotel des Mille Collines in Rwanda Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial
14 May 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
The Brussels Assize Court, which is currently trying Belgian-Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina, former manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in K [...]
Irina Navalnaya trial in Russia. Photo: Navalnaya adopts a dreamy, feminine pose behind the glass of the dock. The young Ukrainian woman is accused of terrorism. Navalnaya’s case: how Ukrainian civilians are tried in Russia
13 May 2024 by Maria Koroleva
Irina Navalnaya, a 26-year-old Ukrainian woman, has been on trial in Russia for six months for allegedly attempting to blow up the Mariupol district administration building during the so-called referendum in the Donetsk People’s R [...]
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Counting the victims - Photo: Yemeni children in a civilian builing destoyed during the war.
10 May 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Counting the victims of a conflict: who does it, how? What sources provide reliable information on the number of civilian and military casualties in a conflict? How are these figures collected, sorted and interpreted? This is the subject explored by our partners from Asymmetrical Hai [...]
Russell Tribunal (citizen's tribunal): interview with Guillaume Mouralis - Illustration: portrait of Guillaume Mouralis.
10 May 2024 by Clémentine Méténier
Guillaume Mouralis: “law and justice can be powerful tools of emancipation” When international justice is lacking, citizens’ tribunals appear as a means of kick-starting justice when the will of States is not there. The historic model of the Russell Tribunal in 1967 established that the Americans used pro [...]
People’s Tribunal on the Murders of Journalists (Nieuwe Kerk, The Hague, Netherlands).
7 May 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
People’s tribunals: “Simply pressing a start button” It’s a court, but also not a court. It has the trappings of some of the Hague courts – judges, officials and witnesses – and deals with high-profile cases, like the next known that is due to hear, on May 16-17, the Filipino P [...]
Crime of starvation in Gaza: will the ICC act? - Photo: Palestinians crowd around a food distribution point in Rafah.
6 May 2024 by Anne Van Mourik + Lucy Gaynor
Starvation and potential ICC warrants on Gaza: what does international law say? Arrest warrants for Israeli leaders are reportedly – according to sources in The Hague and Israel – being prepared by the International Criminal Court (ICC), possibly related to allegations of starvation. Anne van Mourik [...]
Climate justice in Switzerland - Activists from the Senior Women for Climate Protection association welcome the ECHR verdict.
3 May 2024 by Benjamin Bibas
Switzerland condemned by the ECHR: a decisive step for climate justice in Europe The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of a group of Swiss women over 64, saying that their State’s inadequate steps against climate change constitute a violation of their human rights. Why is this a pioneering dec [...]
The Syrian lawyer Mazen Darwish talks to the media in Koblenz, Germany.
3 May 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Darwish: collecting evidence, to avoid revenge and another war in Syria For this hundredth episode of the podcast from our dear partners and colleagues at Asymmetrical Haircuts, our guest is Syrian lawyer Mazen Darwish, who is present and active in all the universal jurisdiction processes concerning B [...]
Thomas Kwoyelo at his trial in Uganda
2 May 2024 by Grace Matsiko
Kwoyelo: “At no time did I kill any one” Dressed in a grey suit, red-spotted tie and matching shoes, former Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Thomas Kwoyelo was able to speak in his own defence for the first time. For a week, ending April 30, a Ugandan court [...]
At the end of March 2024, officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) visited officials from Nigeria. Photo: around fifteen people pose.
30 April 2024 by Julia Crawford
The ICC on Nigeria: Years of words, but no action How did Africa’s most populous country get buried in the recesses of the ICC? Focusing on Ukraine and Gaza, Prosecutor Karim Khan seems to have forgotten a case opened by his predecessor, who herself took ten years to conclude tha [...]
Between Eritrea and the Netherlands, the nightmare of migrants who are victims of human trafficking. Photo: A migrant in a detention centre in Tripoli, Libya, stands with one hand on his cheek, almost appearing to be asleep.
29 April 2024 by Margherita Capacci
Waiting for Eritrean human traffickers’ trials in the Netherlands A year and six months after a string of arrests of human traffickers accused of holding families living in the Netherlands to ransom, Dutch courts are making slow progress towards trials. Our correspondent attended the latest hear [...]
Portrait of Assumpta Mugiraneza, co-founder and director of the IRIBA Centre for Multimedia Heritage (Kigali, Rwanda).
26 April 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier + Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Assumpta Mugiraneza: “The policy of memory in Rwanda must be reinvented, renegotiated” Assumpta Mugiraneza, 57, is the co-founder and director of the IRIBA Center for Multimedia Heritage in Kigali. With rare freedom of speech, she recounts the construction of memory after the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994 [...]
Trial of a Russian soldier for war crimes near Kyiv, Ukraine - Photo: a Ukrainian civilian walks down the street while smoke is visible in the distance following a Russian shell strike.
25 April 2024 by Iryna Salii
War crimes in the Kyiv region: a Russian soldier sentenced to 12 years This case is one of the rare trials of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, for a war crime that took place near the city of Borodyanka, 25 kilometers distant from the martyred city of Bucha. One of the thousands of crimes committed in th [...]
In Chad, General Mahamat Idriss Deby, President of the transition, relaunches the issue of reparations for the victims of Hissène Habré's dictatorship. Photo: Idriss Deby, under escort, raises his hand to greet the crowd.
23 April 2024 by Amaury Hauchard
Chad: coup de théâtre for Habré's victims On the eve of the presidential election scheduled for May 6, Chad's transitional president Mahamat Idriss Déby has relaunched the reparations process for the victims of former dictator Hissène Habré. He has announced the release o [...]
On October 26, 1992, Interahamwe militiamen and extremist MRND militants flooded into Kigali's Nyamirambo district to demonstrate their support for the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR). The placard read:
22 April 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
At Belgian trial, two former Interahamwe leaders dodge testifying Dieudonné Niyitegeka and Eugène Mbarushimana are the only two surviving former members of the National Committee of the Interahamwe, the militia that spearheaded the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. They have never been prose [...]
From left to right, Aboubacar Diakité, known as
19 April 2024 by Matthias Raynal
Guinea massacre trial enters the final stretch The “confrontation” phase began on April 15 in Guinea’s important trial on the 2009 massacre in Conakry stadium. Defendants, victims and witnesses are taking the stand once again, but only on specific points. Dozens of people are [...]
A man looks at the names of genocide victims at the Mount Rebero memorial in Kigali.
18 April 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier + Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
At Rebero, political remembrance of the genocide April 13 saw the official closing ceremony for the 30th commemoration of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. The ceremony took place on Mount Rebero, overlooking the capital Kigali -- the same place where the first commemoration took pl [...]