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.
A Silence Epidemic: when real trials are held behind closed doors…
14 December 2023
by Lucy Gaynor
The public feeling that the international justice trials take place behind the scenes is nothing new, but the trend has worsened still further at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in particular. Backed up by figures, the auth [...]
12 December 2023
by Benjamin Bibas
COP28 ended in Dubai on Tuesday December 12 without any credible promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, there are more and more scientific reports describing the humanitarian consequences of climate change. NGOs are [...]
11 December 2023
by Gaëlle Ponselet
During their closing arguments, Vincent and Juliette Lurquin went out of their way to defend their client Séraphin Twahirwa, a Rwandan charged before the Brussels Assize Court with having participated in the 1994 genocide. To try [...]
11 December 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
On November 16, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Syria to take all measures within its power to prevent acts of torture. The order from this UN court, which is being increasingly called on to deal with mass violenc [...]
8 December 2023
by Olivier Truc
Lundin, the trial that “should never have taken place”
The Lundin trial has now reached the end of its thirteenth week, with 90 weeks still to go. Torgny Wetterberg, defending Ian Lundin, on November 29 began his presentation of the facts. His client is one of the two directors of Swe [...]
7 December 2023
by Gaëlle Ponselet
"They were founders of a ruthless militia in Kigali"
Pierre Basabosé and Séraphin Twahirwa were behind a group of murderous Interahamwe in the Gikondo sector of Kigali in 1994. This was the Belgian prosecutor’s conclusion presented on Monday December 4 at the end of their trial befo [...]
5 December 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Guinea: Baffoé, one witness with two versions
General Ansoumane Camara, known as Baffoé, was in charge of the police unit responsible for maintaining order during the Conakry stadium massacre. In court, he gave a detailed account of what he had seen and heard that day, but in [...]
4 December 2023
by Olga Zhuravel
Klaus Hoffmann: “The problem of collaborators is not only legal, but also political”
Klaus Hoffmann is a German senior prosecutor of the Advisory Group for the Investigation of the Most Serious International Crimes, a joint project of the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom that supports Ukra [...]
30 November 2023
by AFP
German court sentences Gambian death squad member to life in prison
A German court on Thursday sentenced a Gambian man to life in prison over his participation in a death squad that assassinated opponents of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, including an AFP journalist. Bai Lowe was convicted of crime [...]
30 November 2023
by Margherita Capacci
Kosovo: tension in the prison over witness protection
Prosecutors in the war crimes trial against former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi accused him and two of his co-defendants of attempting to “obstruct the proceedings” by revealing the identities of protected witnesses and trying to [...]
28 November 2023
by Hannah El-Hitami
“Someone had to sacrifice themselves”
Last Friday, a week before the verdict, the court in Celle heard the closing arguments of the defense and a final statement by Gambian defendant Bai Lowe. Both insisted on Lowe’s innocence and reiterated his claim that the self-in [...]
27 November 2023
by Aaron Weah
Liberia has a new president: is there renewed hope for justice?
On November 20, Joseph Boakai was officially elected president of Liberia, succeeding George Weah. Some hope that Boakai can finally deliver on the failed promises of wartime accountability. Others think that such prospect is doom [...]
24 November 2023
by Maria Koroleva
In Donetsk, over 100 Ukrainian soldiers sentenced in four months
Since August, the Supreme Court of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, in Russia-occupied Eastern Ukraine, has handed down harsh sentences on at least 118 Ukrainian soldiers and military personnel, as Justice Info established [...]
23 November 2023
by Hannah El-Hitami
“Bai Lowe tried to make amends for something beyond repair”
The trial for crimes against humanity of Gambian Bai Lowe in Celle, Germany, is about to end. On the 16th and 17th of November, the prosecution and joint plaintiffs gave their closing statements. As a driver for former President Y [...]
21 November 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
On the sea frontline of climate change
It is the first time an international judicial body has been called upon to consider the responsibilities of countries when it comes to protecting the world’s waters from climate change. Back in December 2022 the International Tri [...]
21 November 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Guinea massacre trial: it’s time for the witnesses
The absence of the accused Claude Pivi, on the run since his escape from prison on November 4, marked the resumption of hearings in the major trial on the Conakry stadium massacre in Guinea. Security of the trial and its participa [...]
20 November 2023
by Janet H. Anderson
Palestine: the ICC Prosecutor under pressure
On November 17, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced that 5 states sent him a referral of the situation of Palestine. As the numbers of Palestinians killed in the Israeli response to Hamas attacks ratchets [...]
17 November 2023
by Clémentine Méténier
Sexual crimes in the Church: pressure grows as revelations spread
Three years ago, Justice Info published a map of investigations undertaken around the world into sexual crimes in the Catholic Church. This year has been marked by important new revelations, particularly in Latin America and Europ [...]
16 November 2023
by Margherita Capacci
The Thaçi trial between a rock and a hard place
A former Kosovo ambassador testified publicly last week before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in the Hague. The witness mainly retracted his previous statements against former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi. But beyond the reasons [...]