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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.
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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 the massacre at Koundjili and Lémouna in May 2019, in the north of the Central African Republic, […]
By Rodrigue le Roi Benga (our correspondent in Bangui, Central African Republic)
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Trial of a Ukrainian in Russia: Anton Cherednik, in Rostov-on-Don.

Russia: 30 times fewer Ukrainians sentenced than in the occupied territories

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.

Martin Schibbye (journalist): “Sweden believed in Lundin”

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.

Sonko trial: final words before the verdict

In-depth interview with Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) for Syria. Image: drawing of Marchi-Uhel.

Catherine Marchi-Uhel: “The results of the Syria Mechanism are becoming more visible”

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.

Sanctions in Colombia’s justice process: How to get it right

War crimes in Ukraine and ICC arrest warrants - Photo: Sergey Surovikin (former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army) and Vladimir Putin pose in front of Russian flags.

Ukraine: “We could still expect another ICC arrest warrant soon”

Gambia - Trial of Ousman Sonko in Switzerland. Photo: in front of the Swiss Federal Court in Bellinzona.

Ousman Sonko, the “mastermind”

School bombed by Russian air force in Ukraine

ICC indicts two high-ranking Russian military commanders

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has heard arguments from Aishath Shaan Shakir for the Maldives, on the subject of Israel's occupation of Palestine.

Is the ICJ the new “nuclear weapon” of small states?

Hearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of The Gambia (TRRC)

How Gambia’s truth commission findings shaped the Sonko trial

A senior jurist from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) listens to a victim in Colombia.

The original internal sin of Colombia’s JEP

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered €52 million in reparations for the victims of Dominic Ongwen in Uganda. Photo: Judge Bertram Schmitt.

The wild reparations order of the ICC

Yazidi woman in Iraq

10 years after the Yazidi genocide what justice?

Alex Schneiter and Ian Lundin are on trial in Sweden for alleged complicity in war crimes in Sudan. Their lawyers are seeking to undermine the prosecution's case (sources and investigation). Courtroom drawing.

Lundin trial: defence attacks prosecution probe

The story of how a Ukrainian drone helped a woman escape a war crime - Photo: Valeriya Bohomaz walks along a country road (aerial photo taken from the drone guiding her).

The Ukrainian drone that said “follow me”

War in Ukraine and justice - Photo: Ukrainian tanks stuck in the mud near the front line.

"Stalemate in the Ukraine war translates into a justice stalemate"

Catholic residential school (named

Indian homes in French Guiana: truth commission project not yet ripe

Eusebio Torres participating via video link in the reconstruction of the crimes for which he was sentenced, on February 20, to 30 years in prison, in Paraguay. Photo: Someone holds a smartphone showing a video of Eusebio Torres.

In Paraguay, a symbolic judgment on the dictatorship