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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 Iran, the population is both a victim of US-Israeli aggression and a victim of repression by the Iranian regime. What hope is there for justice? Photo: Two Iranians walk past a mural commemorating schoolchildren from Minab who are believed to have been killed by a missile. School desks and benches are laid out on the pavement.
Iranians between a rock and hard place
24 April 2026 by Julia Crawford
Since February 28, 2026, Iranians have found themselves targeted by two opposing forces: US-Israeli airstrikes and aggression; and their own government, which has stepped up repression. What hopes for justice?
Brussels Courthouse in Belgium. Belgian Waffling on Universal Jurisdiction
23 April 2026 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
In 2003, Belgium went from one of the great hopes for all accountability campaigners into a relatively minor player in the field. Why? Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts talk to lawyer and scholar Mathias Holvoet.
In The Gambia, Tamsir Jasseh served under the former (fugitive) dictator Yayya Jammeh. He is testifying in a national trial against one of Jammeh’s “junglers” (militiamen): Sanna Manjang. Photo: Jasseh, in a suit, speaks into the microphone at the The Gambia Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRRC). The discomfort of Gambia’s transition
23 April 2026 by Mustapha K. Darboe
A new witness in the trial of former hitman Sanna Manjang is working under the authority of a man who sat on the panel that had sent him to prison back in 2006. Showing the limits of the vetting procedure in Gambia’s post dictatorship.
Ben Roberts-Smith, a former member of the Australian Special Forces, is accused of war crimes in Afghanistan. Photo: Roberts-Smith approaches the entrance to a court in Australia, dressed in a suit, as cameras film him. Roberts-Smith’s arrest: one more cautious step towards trial
21 April 2026 by Maxim Shanahan
Federal Police boarded a commercial flight in Sydney, on April 7, to arrest Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s highest-profile and most-decorated former soldier. It marked a new step in a war crimes investigation that began more than five years ago.
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Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, stepped down from his post at the ICC pending an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment against him. Photo: Khan, wearing a casual shirt, delivers a speech in Sudan.
20 April 2026 by Janet H. Anderson
How Khan’s investigation “mess” creates factions The investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by the International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan is not over. With scarce official information, the court members and the bubble of lawyers and NGOs taking an interest in the issue is now fracturing in different camps.
Toussaint Muntazini Mukimapa has been sworn in as a prosecutor at the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic.
17 April 2026 by Franck Petit + Rodrigue le Roi Benga
CPS, the other “headless” court Following the death of its chief prosecutor, the Special Criminal Court (CPS) in Bangui is operating without a chief prosecutor and without an approved budget for 2026. While many cases are ready to trial.
Some of the crimes committed during the ongoing war in Sudan (including in Darfur) could be ‘hallmarks of genocide’. Photo: a Sudanese refugee under a makeshift shelter in a camp in Darfur.
16 April 2026 by Julia Crawford
Three years on, Sudan war has “hallmarks of genocide” April 15 marked three years since the start of the current conflict in Sudan. We look at the crimes and prospects for justice with Mona Rishmawi, from the UN’s Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan.
14 April 2026 by Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT)
Dead Men Walking - Episode 1: The International Criminal Court This first episode of « Dead Men Walking », a new podcast produced by the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) in collaboration with Justice Info, scrutinizes the International Criminal Court (ICC), one of the most embattled international institutions of our time.
Lafarge trial in France over crimes committed in Syria: the two executives, Bruno Lafont and Christian Herrault, have been found guilty. Photo: Bruno Lafont in court on the day of the verdict.
14 April 2026 by Chloé Dubois
Tough verdict against cement group Lafarge In a landmark ruling on corporate liability, a French court on April 13 found cement giant Lafarge guilty of financing terrorism in Syria.
In Syria, the National Defence Forces (NDF) are a militia accused of committing crimes such as torture, sexual violence and enforced disappearances. Photo: NDF members hanging a portrait of Bashar al-Assad on the wall of a building.
13 April 2026 by Margherita Capacci
Syria: sexual violence in detention on trial in the Netherlands A new Syrian trial began on Wednesday 8 April in The Hague. Rafiq al Q. is the most senior alleged official with close ties to Bashar al-Assad’s regime to be tried in the Netherlands, on charges of sexual violence classified as a crime against humanity.
Former Lafarge CEO Bruno Lafont leaving the courtroom at the opening of the trial of the French cement group Lafarge and eight individuals, including former executives, accused of financing terrorism in Syria, at the Paris court.
10 April 2026 by Sharon Weill
Lafarge trial: A step beyond Nuremberg?  The verdict is expected on Monday 13 April in the Lafarge trial, in which the French cement manufacturer, as a legal entity, is accused of having financed terrorist organisations in Syria, along with eight of its former executives.
Aleppo courthouse, with people entering the building during the first hearing of the trial on the March 2025 violence on the Syrian coast, photographed in November 2025.
9 April 2026 by Bushra Alzoubi
Aleppo trial: a test for the future of justice in Syria In Aleppo, the trial related to violence that rocked the Syrian coast in the spring of 2025 continues, amid a mix of impatience, international pressure and procedural caution – in particular when it comes to affiliates of the new regime.
People searching a trench suspected of having been used as a mass grave, on the outskirts of Damascus, on December 16, 2024, looking for human remains.
7 April 2026 by Karam Amer
Syria: a Commission for the Missing “still at the experimental stage” Syria’s National Commission for the Forcibly Disappeared was created in May 2025. Almost a year later, it’s facing all sorts of challenges and is already struggling to maintain both public trust and clear governmental support.
Environmental protest in Belgium for the recognition of ecocide as an international crime. Photo : Brazilian indigenous and other militants hold signs readind
2 April 2026 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Ecocide: Waiting for the ICC The activists who lobbied to have ecocide included in the Rome Statute will have to rely on ICC’s provisions that categorize environmental crimes as war crimes or crimes against humanity. This is what explains, in this new podcast, Colombian lawyer Laura Baron-Mendoza who has contributed to a recent ICC’s policy paper on the matter.
Lundin trial in Sweden over war crimes committed in South Sudan. Photo: Ian Lundin and Alexandre Schneiter, the two co-defendants, are seen from behind as they climb the steps of the courthouse.
2 April 2026 by Martin Schibbye
Prison sentences sought for the two Lundin executives According to the prosecution’s conclusions, Lundin Oil’s operations in Sudan were not merely conducted in a conflict. They were intertwined with it. And Ian Lundin and Alexandre Schneiter should be sentenced to prison for complicity in war crimes.
Reparations in Syria: following Bashar al-Assad’s departure, victims of the regime are returning home and, faced with its crimes, are considering seeking reparations. Photo: a woman stands on the balcony of her destroyed flat.
31 March 2026 by Sherizaan Minwalla + Zoe Paris + Mustafa Haid
Syria: learning from Iraq’s reparations experience More than a year after Bashar al-Assad’s fall, a central question remains: what will convince Syrians that the new state is not just the same old machinery in a different form?
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is launching a thorough investigation in Belarus into alleged crimes against humanity committed against political opponents (deportations). Photo: two protesters are handcuffed, with their hands behind their backs and their backs bent, and are being led away by Belarusian police.
30 March 2026 by Janet H. Anderson
ICC: What’s in the Belarus investigation Those who have lobbied for accountability for the regime of Alexander Lukashenko and his political crackdown in 2020 are cheered: the International Criminal Court has opened a full investigation. But the court’s legal and political space is tight.
In South Africa, following the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report on crimes committed during apartheid, investigations by the national police were stalled and hampered for years. A commission is attempting to get to the bottom of the matter, though not without difficulty. Photo: Sisi Khampepe during a hearing of the commission, of which she is the chair.
27 March 2026 by Kylie Thomas
Justice Suspended in South Africa A commission of inquiry into an alleged political scandal about post-apartheid accountability began its hearings on February 11. So far, the process has been marred by the failure of political leaders and the police to comply, scholar Kylie Thomas warns.
In South Sudan, a civil war is on the verge of engulfing the country as transitional justice processes stall. Photo: a group of soldiers in mismatched uniforms (only a few of whom are armed) from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army marching in unsuitable footwear.
26 March 2026 by Julia Crawford
South Sudan: war without justice South Sudan’s political and military leaders are driving the country towards a full-scale civil war and mass atrocity crimes, warn UN experts. And long-awaited transitional justice mechanisms are stalled.