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.
The Thaçi trial between a rock and a hard place
16 November 2023
by Margherita Capacci
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 [...]
15 November 2023
by AFP
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher and two other generals, Ghassan Abbas and Bassam al-Hassan, are the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the French judiciary, revealed on November 14. They are c [...]
14 November 2023
by Clémentine Méténier
Since its publication in September, a report has been shaking up the secrecy that has surrounded sexual abuse in the Swiss Church since the mid-20th century. The report is still preliminary, but could pave the way towards a more s [...]
13 November 2023
by Matthias Raynal
On 4 November, an armed commando got four of the main defendants out of the central prison, including former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara. While he and two others returned to prison that evening, Claude Pivi is still on the ru [...]
10 November 2023
by Julia Crawford
UK military abuses in Afghanistan: SAS in the firing line
In London, an independent inquiry into alleged British Special Forces abuses against civilians in Afghanistan has started substantive hearings. The United Kingdom government agreed to the probe at the end of last year, after inten [...]
9 November 2023
by Maxim Shanahan
Against tide, Yoorrook Commission goes on
One year after the start of a unique Australian truth-telling commission run by First Peoples in the state of Victoria, known as the Yoorrook Commission, urgent recommendations have been made to authorities after hearings which gr [...]
7 November 2023
by Iryna Salii
One year after being exchanged, a Russian pilot sentenced in Chernihiv
The images of the pilot shot down in the early days of Russia's all-out attack on Ukraine made the headlines. But despite his relative celebrity and his confession to bombing Chernihiv, the man was exchanged before he could be tri [...]
6 November 2023
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: when seeking the truth leads to forced exile
In June 2022, Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission unveiled its ten-volume final report and closed its doors two months later. For one of its investigators, Eduardo Andrés Celis, who agreed to speak to Justice Info, that [...]
6 November 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Israel and Gaza: what if the law of war had a say?
Two major questions currently arise for the general public and for legal experts concerning the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza: what does international law say about the bombing of civilians and about humanitarian blockades? [...]
2 November 2023
by Balthazar Nduwayezu
What's happening in the Kayishema case?
What has happened since the arrest five months ago in South Africa of Fulgence Kayishema, one of the last four fugitives wanted for their role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda? A new arrest warrant was made public in September, call [...]
31 October 2023
by Maria Koroleva
Russian soldiers exchanged with Ukraine: what happens after
Justice Info has endeavored to follow the cases of at least two servicemen, convicted and sentenced in Ukraine for war crimes, who have been exchanged and returned to Russia. Although they have been convicted and have admitted the [...]
30 October 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Conakry massacre trial resumes
Since February, more than 100 victims of the 28 September 2009 massacre have been heard at the Dixinn criminal court in Conakry, Guinea. These hearings have been powerful, but have become repetitive, with the risk of dragging the [...]
27 October 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Why Argentina prosecutes crimes in Venezuela
While « serious human rights violations are being committed to this day in Venezuela », according to a UN Fact-Finding Mission, and when the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the government of Venezuela are playing cat and mo [...]
27 October 2023
by Olena Zhezhera
Trials of Russian military officers continue in Ivankiv
In Ukraine, trials of Russian military officers are still ongoing, often discreetly and mostly in absentia. For example, two soldiers were at the end of September sentenced by a local court in the town of Ivankiv, north of the cap [...]
26 October 2023
by Margherita Capacci
ICC First Darfur case: “I am not Ali Kushayb”
The defence case in the first Darfur trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) started on October 19. According to his lawyers, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman was an “anonymous pharmacist” and not Ali Kushayb, a militia [...]
24 October 2023
by Anastasia Zubova
"I did not pledge allegiance to this country"
Angelina Dovbnya., a 21-year old Ukrainian woman, was sentenced to life for high treason by her country’s courts on October 13. Here is the out of the ordinary story of a young woman from Southern Ukraine who used to love travelin [...]
23 October 2023
by Janet H. Anderson
The Mokom fiasco at the ICC
It’s a new blow for the International Criminal Court. On October 16 the Prosecutor announced he was withdrawing all charges against Maxime Mokom, a former minister from Central African Republic. Other cases linked to this country’ [...]
20 October 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Bitter law in Palestine
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has been strongly criticized for his silence and lack of action on the Palestine situation. The contrast with his hyper activity and high-profile arrest warrants on Ukraine is str [...]
20 October 2023
by Lucy Gaynor
The law and the spectacle of the law
On 10 October, Canada and the Netherlands appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, applying for ‘provisional measures’ to prevent ongoing, systematic, entrenched torture practices being committed by t [...]