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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 in Belgium of Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, accused of genocide in Rwanda. Photo: Nkunduwimye stares into the camera behind his discussing lawyers.
Belgian court to start new Rwandan genocide trial
8 April 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
The trial of Emmanuel Nkunduwimye is to start on April 8 before the Brussels Assize Court, 30 years after the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis started. The accused was a close friend of Georges Rutaganda, one of the first peopl [...]
Sexual violence in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - Women victims in DRC Breaking the silence on conflict-related sexual violence
5 April 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
In 2009 the UN Security Council established a special representative to address sexual violence in wars and violence against women in particular, then considered as “the most silenced crime”. Fifteen years later Special Representa [...]
Reconciliation after the genocide in Rwanda. Photo: Victims of the genocide discuss in the Rwandan hills. Reconciliation made in Rwanda
5 April 2024 by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Rwanda is preparing to commemorate on April 7 the genocide of the Tutsis 30 years ago. At least 800,000 people were massacred in 100 days, between April and July 1994. Since then, the national justice system has tried over a milli [...]
Nazis and perpetrators of mass crimes: how does one go about it? Photo: A group of men from the 101st reserve battalion of the German police, in uniform, drink and enjoy themselves. “The unconditional belief that you are good is dangerous”
4 April 2024 by Tjitske Lingsma
Anyone can potentially become a perpetrator of mass atrocities says Alette Smeulers, professor at the University of Groningen, in The Netherlands. After a thirty years’ research, she developed a typology in which she distinguishes [...]
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Prisoners detained in Rwanda for genocide (known as
2 April 2024 by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Rwanda: 2,200 “génocidaires” being released in 2024, who are they? Thirty years after the 1994 genocide, thousands of convicted men and women have already been released from prison. Others, like Emmanuel Ruzigana, are on the point of being released after serving their sentences. The government es [...]
Residents of an Ugandan village listen to the International Criminal Court's (ICC) sentence of Dominic Ongwen, on the radio.
29 March 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Reparations: can the ICC's millions benefit victims in Uganda? 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. A total of more than 52 million euros, [...]
At the 28 September trial in Guinea, will the Conakry stadium massacre be requalified as a crime against humanity? Photo: A participant in the political meeting climbs over a barrier at the stadium (which was crowded) on 28 September 2009.
29 March 2024 by Matthias Raynal
Guinea: was the stadium massacre a crime against humanity? The Conakry court has angered the defence by choosing to wait until the judgment to rule on whether the events should be reclassified as crimes against humanity. The defence has appealed, hoping to force the judges to rule now.
War in Yemen: justice at a standstill. Photo: Yemenis brandish weapons in support of Palestine.
28 March 2024 by Julia Crawford
Yemen: a decade of war with no sign of justice Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea, ostensibly to support Palestinians in Gaza, and retaliatory United States-United Kingdom airstrikes have reminded us in these last months of Yemen’s forgotten war. The conflict has been ongo [...]
Collaboration trial in Ukraine - Video of Oleksandr Kharchenko, one of the defendants.
26 March 2024 by Iryna Salii
Chronicle of a tandem collaboration in a village near Kyiv In this rare legal chronicle, which covers several months of trials of two men in two courts in the region of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, our correspondent tells the story of how collaboration with the Russian occupiers tak [...]
Nika Jeiranashvili tells how he went from international justice expert to wine expert in Georgia
25 March 2024 by Franck Petit
Nika, the Georgian international justice repentant There are many who have been disappointed by international justice, but few who speak so frankly and draw such clear-cut conclusions. Nika Jeiranashvili was the face of Georgian civil society, in The Hague, during the Internationa [...]
Demonstration in Vilnius (Lithuania). Two women hold signs saying
22 March 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
It is "now or never", for a special tribunal on Russia's aggression To what extent is an ad hoc court on the crime of aggression still on the table, two years and a month after the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine? Discussions are still taking place behind closed doors, explain our Asymmetri [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) judge Antoine Kesia Mbe Mindua has disappeared. What impact will this have on the al-Hassan case in Mali?
22 March 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
Missing judge at the ICC: Al Hassan trial postponed indefinitely While the London court was abuzz with speculation about a missing princess, at The Hague court the parties to the trial of the Malian Al Hassan were left in a similar state of uncertainty following the disappearance of a judge, pu [...]
Mevloud Kharazishvili, victim of the war in Georgia and beneficiary of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Trust Fund for Victims assistance programme. Photo: Kharazishvili shows the pasture where he was kidnapped by Russian soldiers.
21 March 2024 by Franck Petit
Georgia: ICC Trust Fund for Victims struggles with reality The central Georgian town of Gori is known as the birthplace of Stalin, whose statue long stood before the town hall and was only removed after the Russia-Georgia war of August 2008. For almost a year now, Gori has been the site o [...]
In the Central African Republic, the Special Criminal Court (SCC) is expected to decide reparation for victims. Photo: First trial of the Special Criminal Court in Bangui, in 2022.
19 March 2024 by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
Reparations: Special Criminal Court opts for pragmatism One year and six months after its first verdict, handed down in October 2022, the Special Criminal Court (CPS) is expected to carry out one of its most delicate tasks: compensating victims. Reparation for the harm resulting from t [...]
Trial of a Ukrainian in Russia: Anton Cherednik, in Rostov-on-Don.
18 March 2024 by Maria Koroleva
Russia: 30 times fewer Ukrainians sentenced than in the occupied territories 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 [...]
Martin Schibbye is a journalist, one of the few covering the Lundin trial in Sweden. Photo: Schibbye stands alone at the entrance to courtroom 34 in Stockholm.
15 March 2024 by Olivier Truc
Martin Schibbye (journalist): “Sweden believed in Lundin” 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 [...]
At the trial of Ousman Sonko in Switzerland (where he is on trial for crimes committed in the Gambia), the defence team, led by Philippe Currat, poses in front of the Federal Court in Bellinzona.
14 March 2024 by Mariam Sankanu
Sonko trial: final words before the verdict 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 [...]
In-depth interview with Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) for Syria. Image: drawing of Marchi-Uhel.
12 March 2024 by Julia Crawford
Catherine Marchi-Uhel: “The results of the Syria Mechanism are becoming more visible” 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 [...]
In Colombia, how will the JEP apply its commitments on sanctions? Photo: FARC officials at the signing of part of the peace agreement in December 2015 in Cuba.
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 [...]