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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.

The Kosovo Special Chambers (KSC), a UN international tribunal based in The Hague (Netherlands), has just handed down a verdict on four Kosovar figures charged with war crimes, including former President Hashim Thaçi. Photo: the four judges are seated on a platform above their five assistants in a very bright, cold white setting.
The ambiguities of the Kosovo Chambers
17 September 2026 by Margherita Capacci
In a much-anticipated verdict, Hashim Thaçi and three other former Kosovo guerrilla leaders were found guilty of war crimes by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers on September 16. We look back at 10 years of a controversial court.
Hashim Thaçi, former president of Kosovo, seated in the dock at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague, wearing a dark suit, blue shirt and red tie, staring ahead. In the blurred foreground, a lawyer in a gown and white bands. Thaçi's reflection appears in a glass pane on the right. Convictions and heavy sentences for 4 Kosovo leaders
16 September 2026 by AFP
On September 16, the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers convicted Kosovo's former president Hashim Thaçi for war crimes and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. Three other leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army were also found guilty and sentenced. 
In Colombia, the appeal judges of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) have clarified and tightened the restrictions on freedom imposed on those on trial, as these were deemed too vague. Photo: Members of the FARC have gathered outside the JEP to offer apologies to the victims. Colombia: how the JEP appeal judges corrected its first historical ruling
15 September 2026 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Clarifying a “vague” first instance judgment on the special sanction against seven former high-ranking rebels: this was the stated aim of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace’s Appeals Section in Colombia, in a new ruling delivered last July.
In the International Criminal Court (ICC), two men accused of war crimes in Darfur (Sudan) – Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus – are seated next to Karim Khan (a former defence lawyer who has become a prosecutor at the ICC), who is standing in his judicial robes. Banda: one fewer Darfur case at the ICC
14 September 2026 by Janet H. Anderson
In a little noted decision, judges at the ICC reluctantly accepted the prosecutor’s decision not to continue with its attempts to prosecute Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain (Banda), now a general in the Sudanese armed forces, for alleged crimes in Darfur.
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Judge Tomoko Akane, president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands.
11 September 2026 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
What’s on the international justice agenda? In this latest podcast, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts explore key international justice issues, including US sanctions on the ICC President and the death of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic.
In South Africa, the circumstances surrounding the 1977 death of Steve Biko, an anti-apartheid activist, and those responsible remained unknown, but the investigation has just been reopened. Photo: a protester holds up a poster of Biko at his funeral in 1977. A crowd stands behind him at the side of the road.
11 September 2026 by Kylie Thomas
How in August, Steve Biko’s murder inquest re-opened In August 2026, almost fifty years since the original inquest found no one to blame for his death, an inquest into the murder of anti-apartheid activist Stephen Bantu Biko re-opened at the High Court in Gqeberha, South Africa.
Ratko Mladic’s funeral in Belgrade (Serbia). Photo: thousands of Serbs marching down a street in Belgrade, waving Serbian flags and holding up portraits of Mladic.
10 September 2026 by Alberto Lanzi
The Death of Mladic, Mirror of a Divided Serbia The reactions to Ratko Mladić’s death reflect the deep polarization of Serbian society. The divide, however, is not only between those who consider him innocent or guilty, but between supporters of the government and the movement born out of last year’s student protests, in the run-up to early elections.
8 September 2026 by Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)
Dead Men Walking - Episode 5: International Aid In this fifth episode of « Dead Men Walking », a podcast produced by the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) in collaboration with Justice Info, we discuss international aid, in countries in transition after a conflict or a dictatorship.
Russia’s crime of aggression in Ukraine: what does international law say, and how has Ukrainian jurisdiction evolved? Photo: a Russian tank (with the letter ‘Z’ written on it several times) in Ukraine.
7 September 2026 by Anastasia Zubova
How Ukraine prosecutes the crime of aggression Having convicted several Russian and Ukrainian nationals of the crime of aggression between 2014 and 2022, the Ukrainian courts have refined the definition and scope of this crime in order to comply with international law.
Several ships setting sail from the port of Barcelona are set to join the flotilla bound for Gaza.
4 September 2026 by Margherita Capacci
Gaza flotilla cases: “A pattern of systematic violence” For the lawyers of Global Sumud Flotilla, national investigations opened in Europe and the ICC communication following the arrests of activists sailing to Gaza “form part of broader moves for accountability concerning crimes committed by Israel”. Justice Info mapped these developments.
Protest against Shell in South Africa. A placard bears the slogan ‘To hell with Shell’.
3 September 2026 by Angela van der Berg
How South African judges sent Shell to hell, with panache Mid-August, South African judges delivered a magistral lesson in environmental justice and sent Shell oil plans in the Wild Coast packing. Their judgment is a milestone, argue the author, that puts climate change at “the centre of legal accountability”.
Damage caused by the war in Ukraine: what compensation is available for the victims? Photo: two people embracing, looking up at the sky, at the foot of a block of flats destroyed by a Russian missile.
1 September 2026 by Natalia Naiduk
War compensations for Ukrainians: a slow but ongoing process After more than four years of conflict, Ukrainians affected by the war have not received any compensation yet. But a reparations mechanism is slowly getting into place with the Register of damage, while some victims are also trying civil actions.
Four defendants are on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Central African Republic. They are appearing before the Special Criminal Court (CPS) of the Central African Republic.
31 August 2026 by Andy Avila Bissayo
Special Criminal Court: Guen trial resumes with closing arguments The fourth trial at the Special Criminal Court begins its closing arguments on Monday August 31. Before the conclusion of hearings on June 11, Edmond Beina and Dieudonné Gomitoua traded accusations over the massacre of some 40 Muslims.
Soldiers on the Lithuanian border
28 August 2026 by Aleh Baradzin
When migrants are weaponized, what can international law do According to Lithuania, Lukashenko’s regime facilitates the smuggling of migrants from Belarus. The International Court of Justice has yet to rule on these allegations, but this case highlights several other political bargaining spots along Europe’s borders, the author explains.
Ratko Mladic
27 August 2026 by AFP
Ratko Mladic has died Ratko Mladić, the former commander of the Republika Srpska army, died on Thursday in The Hague, aged 84. After 16 years on the run, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced him to life imprisonment in 2017, in particular for the Srebrenica genocide during the Bosnian War.
Protest suppressed by the police in Kenya
27 August 2026 by Martina Jebet
Kenya: “Money can only wipe away tears” In June, Kenya has started a 13 million euro programme to compensate the victims of police brutality during political unrest that took place between 2017 and 2025. But families of the victims are calling for trials.
A scandal is raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The two ‘reparations’ funds set up for victims of mass crimes, Frivao and Fonarev, are accused of corruption and embezzlement. Illustration: a large pipe dispensing banknotes into hands held aloft is torn open by a businessman who collects the notes spilling out of the hole.
26 August 2026 by Justice Info
The scandal of victims’ funds in DRC Two victim’s funds were established in 2022 in the DRC. The Frivao, funded by reparations payments from Uganda, as ordered by the International Court of Justice. The Fonarev, funded on mining royalties. Both have been accused of mismanagement – and, in the case of Frivao, of massive embezzlement.
On a street in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a large advertising hoarding displays a message about ‘Genocost’, announcing a ‘national commemoration on 2 August 2026’.
25 August 2026 by Caleb Kazadi
Kasai: FONAREV under fire The Kamuina Nsapu armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo took place ten years ago. But in Kasai FONAREV, the public body in charge of reparations for victims, is coming increasingly under fire.
Seated on a school bench, a woman is seen from behind, facing two people (seated in the teacher’s chair) who appear to be listening to her, during the victims’ hearings before the Kasai Truth Commission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (CVPJR).
24 August 2026 by Caleb Kazadi
Kasai Central: Truth and Reconciliation Commission abandoned by the state Five years on, the Kasai Central Truth Commission (CPVJR) is still only at the start of its operational phase. It lacks funding, and the Congolese state is absent.