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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.

Syria / France - When French justice rethinks the impunity of heads of state. Photo: On the steps of the Elysée Palace in Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy and Bashar al-Assad smile as they shake hands.
Heads of state immunity under debate
7 July 2025 by Chloé Dubois
On Friday, the highest court of France met to examine the arrest warrant issued in 2023 against former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad – challenged by the public prosecutor on the grounds of immunity protecting heads of state in office.
Destruction at Evin prison’s after Israeli air strikes, in Tehran (Iran). The right to self-defence: a growing phenomenon?
4 July 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
“Our time, unlike during the Cold War, has seen a big broadening of the right to self-defence,” argues Samuel Moyn, professor of law and history at Yale University in this new Assymmetrical Haircuts podcast on how states grant themselves the right to break the law.
Teenagers recruited by the Russian FSB are arrested in Ukraine. Photo: 3 teenagers (faces blurred, hands behind their backs) are arrested by 2 Ukrainian police officers in front of a gate. Ukraine: when the FSB recruits teenagers
4 July 2025 by Anastasia Zubova
Russian services recruit teenagers to carry out operations on Ukrainian territory, as illustrated by the ongoing trials in central Ukraine. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the recruitment of children for acts of war is a war crime.
Crime of aggression: the States Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC) are due to meet in New York (USA). Photo: storm over Manhattan (NYC). Crime of aggression: high pressure for ICC in New York
3 July 2025 by Janet H. Anderson
The States Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC), who are meeting in New York next week for a special session on the crime of aggression, are facing exceptional diplomatic pressure.
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Seven years of Colombia’s JEP (infographic)
1 July 2025 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Seven years of Colombia’s JEP 251 people charged, and 0 sanctioned. These two figures summarise both the amount of work involved and the still uncertain outcome of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia, seven years after its inauguration.
Bombing hospitals and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) - Photo : Hospital staff walk in the corridor of a hospital destroyed by an Israeli missile shell, in the Gaza Strip (Palestine).
27 June 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Bombing hospitals: an increasing violation of IHL Never before have hospitals and healthcare workers been so targeted in conflicts. In this new podcast, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts asked Cordula Droege, Chief Legal Officer at the ICRC, to explain why and how IHL provides hospitals with the highest level of protection.
Truth tents in Syria - Photo: in Eastern Ghouta (south-east of Damascus), a tent houses portraits of the disappeared while Syrians (often mothers accompanied by their children) speak out and seek the truth about the enforced disappearance and torture suffered by their loved ones.
27 June 2025 by Hannah El-Hitami
Truth tents: “Talking about what Syrians need right now”  In post-Assad Syria, the “truth tents” offer a space for victims’ families to discuss truth and justice. Jad al-Hamada, one of the truth tents’ initiators, speaks to Justice Info about the demand for transitional justice in Syria.
Aggression by Israel and the United States in Iran - Photo: portrait of a victim of an Israeli attack in a street in Tehran (Iranian flag and veiled woman walking while looking at her smartphone).
26 June 2025 by Alannah Travers
How the aggression against Iran has been normalised To understand the justifications given for Israeli and American strikes against Iran, one must look at Iraq and Syria, where a permissive environment for the crime of aggression we are witnessing today was modeled, explains Alannah Travers.
Enforced disappearances in Syria: a commission is set up - Photo: a man and a child in front of a billboard displaying portraits of missing persons.
24 June 2025 by Mustafa Haid
Syria’s Missing Persons Commission and the Risk of Marginalization (Part 2) The new Syrian authorities have established two commissions tasked with addressing past violence. What are the challenges faced by the Missing Persons Commission?
Transitional justice in Syria - Photo: Abdul Basit Abdul Latif, Head of the Syrian National Commission for Transitional Justice
23 June 2025 by Mustafa Haid
Syria's Transitional Justice Commission and the Peril of Partiality (Part 1) The new Syrian authorities have established two commissions tasked with addressing past violence. What are the challenges facing the transitional justice commission?
Scandal in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Minister of Justice Constant Mutamba is suspected of embezzling funds intended for victims of the ‘Six-Day War’ in Kisangani (DRC).
20 June 2025 by Caleb Kazadi
DRC victims’ fund hit by scandal The Minister of Justice of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Constant Mutamba, has been accused of embezzling $19.9 million from the Reparations Fund for Victims, Frivao. On June 17 he was forced to resign.
Russian aggression in Ukraine. Photo: Russian servicemen patrol the destroyed part of the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol on May 18, 2022, amid the ongoing Russian military action in Ukraine.
19 June 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Talking about aggression This podcast discusses two topics: a special tribunal created to address Russia’s aggression war against Ukraine; and a coming session in New York to review the scope of the crime of aggression at the International Criminal Court.
Ndélé 2 trial in the Central African Republic (CAR). 3 defendants dressed as orange prisoners take the stand.
19 June 2025 by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
The ‘Ndélé 2’ trial: awaiting the verdict Since 2020, the Special Criminal Court has been trying crimes committed in Ndélé, in the north of the Central African Republic. In the first case, four members of the Goula ethnic group were convicted. On 19 June, the verdict is expected against three defendants from the Rounga ethnic group.
Justice Info is 10 years old. To mark the anniversary of the site's creation (17 June 2015), Hani Abbas has graced us with a caricature with a bittersweet flavour. Illustration: as a journalist prepares to blow out the 10 candles on a huge birthday cake in the shape of a ‘judge's gavel’, 3 characters bearing a strong resemblance to Trump, Netanyahu and Putin come along to spoil the party by blowing out the candles themselves.
17 June 2025 by Thierry Cruvellier
Justice Info is 10 years old Our website celebrates its 10th anniversary. And yes, with the wind at our backs
The International Criminal Court (ICC) and justice in Libya. Photo: A vehicle burnt during clashes between armed militias and government forces.
16 June 2025 by Margherita Capacci
The ICC in Libya’s quagmire The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court would like to close the investigation in Libya in early 2026. And the official Libyan government has accepted the Court's jurisdiction until 2027. Could this put an end to the deadlock?
A doctor walks through the dark corridor of a hospital
16 June 2025 by AFP
Life sentence for a Syrian doctor Alaa Moussa was on trial for multiple crimes against detainees in military hospitals in Damascus and Homs during the Syrian civil war. On 16 June, a German court sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Transitional justice in Tunisia: obstructions, postponements, delays, political manoeuvring. A slow agony resulting in total impunity for the criminals of the Ben Ali regime. Photo: The Tunis courthouse (Tunisia) behind the bars of a gate.
13 June 2025 by Amin Taieb
Tunisia’s transitional justice in agony After almost two years of deadlock, the specialized criminal chamber in Tunis resumed its work on March 17. But the judicial process still seems to be paralyzed, a victim of obstructions that the authorities are bothering less and less to hide.
Why Hungary quits the International Criminal Court (ICC) Photo: The Shoes by the Danube is a memorial dedicated to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Budapest on the banks of the Danube in Hungary.
12 June 2025 by Alannah Travers
Why Hungary quits the ICC On May 20, Hungary officially announced its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. But the Israel/Palestine issue is only part of the picture. The European Union is also a target, warns Alannah Travers.
Why is the International Criminal Court (ICC) struggling to deal globally with the multiple international crimes perpetrated by Israel in Palestine (Gaza and the West Bank)? Photo: Armed Israeli settlers talk to Palestinians in Hebron.
10 June 2025 by Janet H. Anderson
ICC: Shall we talk about the West Bank? One year after the request for arrest warrants against Hamas and Israeli leaders, the war in Gaza and the colonisation of the West Bank have only intensified. Why is the International Criminal Court not taking more action?