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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.

In Syria, the National Commission for Missing Persons offers support to the relatives of victims of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Photo: the father of a victim speaks (into a microphone) in a lecture theatre provided by the University of Aleppo.
Meeting with the families of the missing in Aleppo
6 October 2026 by Karam Amer
On September 30, Syria’s National Commission for Missing People met with families of the disappeared in Aleppo. It was part of an outreach campaign after the commission created a new programme for families to register.
Yoav Kisch (Israel’s Minister of Education) poses for selfies with students carrying Israeli flags at the former Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Immunities of State officials: Poland steps up
5 October 2026 by Katya Ravinska + Fiona McKay + Julie Bardèche
In June a Polish court ruled that immunities should not hinder investigation of alleged international crimes by Israeli officials. A move that may pave the way to accountability for Gaza victims in Poland, explain three international lawyers.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio used a diplomatic tour of South America to try to persuade countries to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: Rubio shakes hands with Roberto Kury (Minister for Foreign Affairs) in Ecuador. The mixed results of the anti-ICC US campaign in Latin America
2 October 2026 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Latin America has not (so far) yielded to US pressure to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. Venezuela obliged, Ecuador and Colombia are showing signs to please Washington, but Chile and Costa said no, and others keep silent.
In Bangladesh, a local court is handling cases relating to crimes committed by the police during the crackdown on Islamist protests in 2013. Photo: protesters run to escape police armed with batons, whilst smoke bombs are being used. Bangladesh: Law or Disorder?
1 October 2026 by Julia Wesemann + Shahnewaj Patwari
A high-profile case before Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal has raised serious concerns. The risk? That these proceedings appear less as impartial justice than as political retaliation, warn two human rights advocates.
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) is facing sanctions from the United States, and the consequences are also technological, forcing it to rethink its digital tools (Microsoft Office, artificial intelligence, etc.).
30 September 2026 by Janet H. Anderson
US sanctions: “The US administration may see the ICC as an institutional pilot” Against the backdrop of US sanctions and increasing pressure on the International Criminal Court, how is the ICC dealing with the need to depart from its reliance on US technology? Some key explanations from scholar Benjamin Thorne.
Civilian victims in Ukraine: is there any hope of compensation? Photo: an elderly woman is evacuated following a bombing in Kramatorsk (Ukraine).
28 September 2026 by Oksana Rekun
Ukraine's civilian war victims: is there any hope for compensation? Ukrainian civilian victims of the war with Russia receive no compensation nor benefits from the state. So far, the Ukrainian government has only a draft proposal regarding the payment of a one-time cash benefit to the families of civilians killed.
Ex-Syrian general (under Assad regime) defendant Khaled al-Halabi is escorted in handcuffs to the courtroom by justice officers for the trial at the Regional Vienna’s Court of Austria in Vienna, Austria.
25 September 2026 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Universal Jurisdiction: the case of puzzling Austria In this new podcast produced by Asymmetrical Haircuts, espionage, torture, trial and escape unfold in the extraordinary case of two former Syrian officers convicted in Austria for crimes committed under Assad.
Donald Trump is delivering a speech at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York City, United States.
24 September 2026 by Janet H. Anderson
The US campaign against the ICC is heating up On September 22, Donald Trump called all members of the International Criminal Court to withdraw from the treaty. This summer, the US has renewed its vow to dismantle the ICC. Some states have recently quit. And more sanctions may come.
Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, a former member of the Central African rebel group Seleka, during his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
23 September 2026 by AFP
ICC: Said convicted Former Central African rebel Mahamat Said was found guilty of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court on September 23. And not guilty of war crimes. The trial, the last Central African Republic case before the ICC, lasted 4 years.
Staff wellbeing in international tribunals. Photo: a hearing attended by the defendant ‘Douch’ at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cambodia).
22 September 2026 by Krystal K. Thompson
The question that was never asked Early November, judicial leaders from around the world will meet in Grand Cayman to talk about the wellbeing of those delivering justice. Every instrument so far counts judges only. In atrocity crimes, it must concern everyone, says Krystal Thompson.
In Syria, people are on trial for their involvement in crimes committed under Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Photo: The trial of Wasim al-Assad, standing in a cage at the side of a relatively empty courtroom.
21 September 2026 by Sana Kikhia
The Bitter Scales of Justice in Syria Following the first convictions of high-level figures of the Assad regime in August, human rights activist Sana Kikhia says civil society must step out of the ‘all or nothing’ trap and navigate speed, rigor, and legitimacy strategically.
Eritrea has been under the rule of a dictatorship for decades, with compulsory military service of indefinite duration. Photo: Eritrean soldiers lined up on the border with Ethiopia.
18 September 2026 by Julia Crawford
Eritrea: what hope of justice for “Africa’s North Korea”? September 18 marks 25 years since Eritrea’s iron-fisted regime arbitrarily arrested critical politicians and journalists, never to be heard of again. A new UN report points to three decades of crimes against humanity, never punished.
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.
17 September 2026 by Margherita Capacci
The ambiguities of the Kosovo Chambers 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.
16 September 2026 by AFP
Convictions and heavy sentences for 4 Kosovo leaders 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.
15 September 2026 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: how the JEP appeal judges corrected its first historical ruling 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.
14 September 2026 by Janet H. Anderson
Banda: one fewer Darfur case at the ICC 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.
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.