All Justice Info articles since 2015
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.
Vincent Lurquin: "having the humanity to defend someone accused of the worst crimes"
9 January 2024
by Gaëlle Ponselet
For once, we meet Vincent Lurquin outside the courtroom. Without his robe but with the same debonair air that characterises him, the lawyer shares with us his thoughts on the way justice is dispensed in cases relating to the genoc [...]
8 January 2024
by Julia Crawford
Ousman Sonko, former interior minister of the Gambia, goes on trial in Switzerland this Monday January 8 for alleged crimes against humanity committed between 2000 and 2016 in his country. This long-awaited trial before Switzerlan [...]
22 December 2023
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Why has Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva insisted before the United Nations that Colombia's transitional justice model is headed for failure - while, at the same time, he promotes the special tribunal's acceptance of former paramilit [...]
22 December 2023
by AFP
Rwandan Séraphin Twahirwa was given a life sentence by the Brussels Assize Court on Thursday night. The 66-year-old former militiaman, tried under universal jurisdiction, was found guilty of dozens of murders and rapes committed i [...]
21 December 2023
by Olfa Belhassine
Gaza: why Tunisia has not referred the situation to the ICC
Tunisia is among the few Arab countries to be a member of the International Criminal Court and so holds a valuable card: as a member state it can refer cases to the court. But when five other states referred "the situation in Pale [...]
21 December 2023
by AFP
Ex-president Bouterse definitively sentenced in Suriname
The former army strongman, author of two coups d'état and President of Suriname from 2010 to 2020, was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment at final instance on Wednesday 20 December for the 1982 "December murders" of 15 political [...]
20 December 2023
by AFP
Munyemana: a Rwandan doctor sentenced to 24 years in prison in France
Sosthène Munyemana is the seventh Rwandan convicted in France under universal jurisdiction for their participation in the 1994 genocide. The exiled doctor was part of a group that "prepared, organised and managed the daily genocid [...]
19 December 2023
by Chantal Meloni
ICC: why NGOs are concerned, not States
The 22nd Assembly of the States Parties (ASP) to the International Criminal Court (ICC) just concluded in New York. Two intense weeks of diplomatic work for the States delegates, civil society organizations and other stakeholders. [...]
19 December 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Sonko trial: what can we expect from Swiss justice?
In this podcast produced with Asymmetrical Haircuts, two Justice Info correspondents take the floor. Mariam Sankanu, who is covering the post-Truth Commission period in Gambia. And Hannah el Hitami, who in Germany has covered seve [...]
18 December 2023
by Thierry Cruvellier
International Criminal Court at the heart of world disorder
Member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) met in plenary session from December 4 to 14, as they do annually. Palestine featured in many of the debates on the sidelines of this assembly in New York. It came as the Cou [...]
15 December 2023
by Grace Matsiko
Total Uganda: 42 families expropriated in a summary trial
While the Cop28 negotiations were taking place in the sumptuous halls of Dubai, no less than 42 families from Uganda's oil-rich regions were expropriated from their homes on a Friday afternoon, in an expeditious court hearing. To [...]
14 December 2023
by Lucy Gaynor
A Silence Epidemic: when real trials are held behind closed doors…
The public feeling that the international justice trials take place behind the scenes is nothing new, but the trend has worsened still further at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in particular. Backed up by figures, the auth [...]
12 December 2023
by Benjamin Bibas
Banks, the new targets of climate action
COP28 ended in Dubai on Tuesday December 12 without any credible promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, there are more and more scientific reports describing the humanitarian consequences of climate change. NGOs are [...]
11 December 2023
by Gaëlle Ponselet
"What judicial truth without material evidence?"
During their closing arguments, Vincent and Juliette Lurquin went out of their way to defend their client Séraphin Twahirwa, a Rwandan charged before the Brussels Assize Court with having participated in the 1994 genocide. To try [...]
11 December 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Syria: a further step against mass crimes?
On November 16, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Syria to take all measures within its power to prevent acts of torture. The order from this UN court, which is being increasingly called on to deal with mass violenc [...]
8 December 2023
by Olivier Truc
Lundin, the trial that “should never have taken place”
The Lundin trial has now reached the end of its thirteenth week, with 90 weeks still to go. Torgny Wetterberg, defending Ian Lundin, on November 29 began his presentation of the facts. His client is one of the two directors of Swe [...]
7 December 2023
by Gaëlle Ponselet
"They were founders of a ruthless militia in Kigali"
Pierre Basabosé and Séraphin Twahirwa were behind a group of murderous Interahamwe in the Gikondo sector of Kigali in 1994. This was the Belgian prosecutor’s conclusion presented on Monday December 4 at the end of their trial befo [...]
5 December 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Guinea: Baffoé, one witness with two versions
General Ansoumane Camara, known as Baffoé, was in charge of the police unit responsible for maintaining order during the Conakry stadium massacre. In court, he gave a detailed account of what he had seen and heard that day, but in [...]
4 December 2023
by Olga Zhuravel
Klaus Hoffmann: “The problem of collaborators is not only legal, but also political”
Klaus Hoffmann is a German senior prosecutor of the Advisory Group for the Investigation of the Most Serious International Crimes, a joint project of the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom that supports Ukra [...]