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.
Russia: 30 times fewer Ukrainians sentenced than in the occupied territories
18 March 2024
by Maria Koroleva
In Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia, courts report on new sentences almost every week, but in Russia the Southern Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has issued nearly 30 times fewer verdicts in the past year, Justice Info has [...]
15 March 2024
by Olivier Truc
Six months have passed since the start of the longest trial in Swedish history, which will last another two years. Time for a first assessment by one of its most assiduous observers, Martin Schibbye, who spent 438 days of his life [...]
14 March 2024
by Mariam Sankanu
Closing arguments have now ended in the trial of former Gambian interior minister Ousman Sonko at the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona. “If a country as rich and developed as yours is unable to provide its prisoners with [...]
12 March 2024
by Julia Crawford
Catherine Marchi-Uhel of France is the first head of the first UN evidence-gathering mechanism, the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) for Syria, created in 2016 in Geneva. After seven years in office, she w [...]
11 March 2024
by Juanita Goebertus + Juan Pappier
Sanctions in Colombia’s justice process: How to get it right
The way Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace will impose sanctions on individuals it has held responsible for serious crimes is crucial to the whole transitional justice model. And it is yet to be clarified by the tribunal. H [...]
8 March 2024
by Janet H. Anderson
Ukraine: “We could still expect another ICC arrest warrant soon”
Law Professor Sergey Vasiliev analyses the two arrest warrants issued on March 5 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Sergey Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov, two top officers of the Russian army. He explains what we know [...]
5 March 2024
by AFP
ICC indicts two high-ranking Russian military commanders
On March 5, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Sergei Kobylach, head of Russia's strategic air force, and Viktor Sokolov, head of Russia's Black Sea fleet. They are charged with war crimes and crimes [...]
5 March 2024
by Janet H. Anderson
Is the ICJ the new “nuclear weapon” of small states?
The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) is now subject to thousands of memes and TikTok videos of its proceedings. A whole new generation have found out about this court via its involvement in the ongoing wars in Pale [...]
4 March 2024
by Mariam Sankanu
How Gambia’s truth commission findings shaped the Sonko trial
The trial of Ousman Sonko, former Interior minister of The Gambia, resumes today in Switzerland. Parties are expected to present their closing arguments. A striking fact of the evidence put before the Swiss court last January was [...]
1 March 2024
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The original internal sin of Colombia’s JEP
An opaque recruitment process at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has brought unease and criticism. It came in stark contrast to the exemplary way judges of the transitional justice criminal court were selected. It also hi [...]
29 February 2024
by Lucy Gaynor
The wild reparations order of the ICC
On February 28, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced their decision on reparations to victims in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan rebel commander convicted three years ago. They came up with a mom [...]
27 February 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
10 years after the Yazidi genocide what justice?
In the early hours of August 3rd 2014 Islamic State militants launched a coordinated attack and forcibly took over the Sinjar region in northern Iraq, home to the Yazidi people. In the days and weeks that followed, approximately 1 [...]
27 February 2024
by Olivier Truc
Lundin trial: defence attacks prosecution probe
It's the turn of lawyers for the second defendant, Swiss citizen Alexandre Schneiter, to present their arguments in the Lundin trial in Sweden. The defence of the former oil company CEO, prosecuted as an accessory to war crimes, c [...]
26 February 2024
by Vladyslava Kobko
The Ukrainian drone that said “follow me”
Klim Kerzhayev, a Russian soldier, was accused of opening fire on a civilian car in Northeastern Ukraine, back in June 2022. The woman inside the car escaped thanks to the ingenuity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Her husband was l [...]
23 February 2024
by Franck Petit
"Stalemate in the Ukraine war translates into a justice stalemate"
Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, plunging the country into the deadliest war in Europe since 1945 and turning global geopolitics on its head. At the start of this conflict, and then again a year ago, Ju [...]
22 February 2024
by Clémentine Méténier
Indian homes in French Guiana: truth commission project not yet ripe
A request to create a "Truth Commission on Indian Homes in French Guiana (1935-2023)" was submitted on February 1, 2024, to the French National Assembly, in the form of a report by the Institut francophone pour la Justice et la Dé [...]
20 February 2024
by AFP
In Paraguay, a symbolic judgment on the dictatorship
On February 20, 87-year-old former police officer Eusebio Torres was sentenced by the Paraguayan courts to 30 years in prison for torture committed in 1976 during the military dictatorship. Because of his age, he will not go to pr [...]
20 February 2024
by Janet H. Anderson
Palestine’s plea against occupation
On the first day of hearings at the International Court of Justice in the Hague on the legality of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, the judges heard from Palestine’s lawyers. They emphasised the international importance of the ca [...]