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Arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against senior Russian military officers for crimes committed in Ukraine. Photo: Valery Gerasimov and Sergei Shoigu in military uniforms (Russia)
ICC: Arrest warrants for the heads of the Russian army
25 June 2024 by AFP
On 25 June, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it had issued arrest warrants for Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov and former Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. They are both accused of war crimes for [...]
Enforced disappearances in Ukraine - The mother of the missing Andrii Shapoval shows a video of her son on her phone. Enforced disappearance in Ukraine: Andrii’s mother's tortured path
24 June 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova
On the morning of April 12, 2022, the day of his 28th birthday, Andrii Shapoval went to his friend’s grandmother’s house in Balakliya, eastern Ukraine, which was under occupation. He never returned home. Through this story, a Ukra [...]
In the Central African Republic, the eleven commissioners of the Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission (CVJRR) were dismissed in May 2024. Photo: The commissioners of the CVJRR pose outdoors. Central African Republic: why the Truth Commission was dismissed
21 June 2024 by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
The Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission (CVJRR) of the Central African Republic has been sacked and replaced. On May 3 2024, it saw a unit of the internal security forces close its offices. Later, the governme [...]
Gender apartheid for women in Iran and women in Afghanistan - Photo: a woman wearing a hijab walks down a street, closely followed by a Taliban patrol. Crimes against Afghan women drive push to recognize “gender apartheid”
20 June 2024 by Julia Crawford
Richard Bennett, UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan, told the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday that violations against women and girls in that country were “so severe and extensive” that “they may amount to crimes against huma [...]
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International Central Securities Depositories (ICSDs): an option for financing Ukraine with Russian money. Image: photo montage of a rouble coin, a Ukrainian flag and frost.
18 June 2024 by Dominique Chabert and Frédéric Jouneau
Finding money for Ukraine: the return of a Cold War financial tool To eventually finance reparations, economic recovery, and especially the war effort in Ukraine, the European Union and G7 leaders seem agreed on using the windfall interest from Russian assets frozen by sanctions. But how? To unde [...]
Justice in Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - Photo: people displaced by the conflict between the local Kamwina Nsapu militia and government forces wait to receive food rations.
17 June 2024 by Caleb Kazadi
Kasai: how three senior officials escaped justice On June 1, a trial on the violent Kamwina Nsapu insurrection in Tshikapa (Kasai province) ended in a resounding flop. After a few days of hearings, the military court of former Kasai Occidental declared that it did not have jurisd [...]
In Ukraine, a claim for reparation (compensation) for damages and destructions is launched. Photos: several images of Ukrainians in front of civilian buildings (often homes) destroyed by Russian missiles.
14 June 2024 by Tjitske Lingsma
Register of Damages for Ukraine: “The biggest claims program in history” Since 2 April, the Register of Damages for Ukraine, created by a resolution of the Council of Europe, is open for claims for houses damaged or destroyed by Russian aggression. In the coming months, persons, the state and legal ent [...]
Sudan: in response to the crimes committed in El-Fasher, and more generally in the Darfur region, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is launching an appeal for testimony. Photo: A cattle market burns down in El-Fasher after a bombardment by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
13 June 2024 by Franck Petit
Suliman Baldo: El-Fasher, a siege “comparable to Gaza” Surrounded, starving, under artillery fire and awaiting an imminent offensive by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), El-Fasher, the capital of Darfur, is “hell on earth”. On Tuesday 11 June, the prosecutor of the International Crimina [...]
Oleksandr Kostornyi, a former KGB officer, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Ukraine for high treason. Photo: Kostornyi is pressed up against the glass of the dock, his hand resting on it, facing his reflection.
11 June 2024 by Iryna Salii
Kostornyi, the former KGB officer found guilty of high treason Over 60 dead and 160 wounded. Ukrainian and foreign combatants. The missile attack on a Ukrainian military training centre in Yavoriv, western Ukraine, on March 13, 2022, was widely reported at the start of the all-out invasion. I [...]
Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye sentenced to 25 years in prison in Belgium for his part in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Photo: Nkunduwimye during his trial.
10 June 2024 by AFP
Belgium: Nkunduwimye sentenced to 25 years in prison for genocide He helped the killers “with full knowledge of the facts”, ruled the jury in the seventh Rwandan universal jurisdiction trial to be held in Belgium. Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, brother-in-law of Interahamwe militia leader Georges Rutagan [...]
Reintegration and reconciliation of a former ‘genocidaire’ in Rwanda - Photo: Hamenyimana poses in his field in the village of Remera.
10 June 2024 by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Pascal Hamenyimana and the timid reintegration of a former “génocidaire” Back in his village after serving a 15-year prison sentence for complicity in genocide, ex-convict Pascal Hamenyimana is gradually returning to a normal life, thanks to the welcome, the moral and financial support of several survi [...]
Justice for Syria and the International court of Justice (ICJ) - Photo: a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the streets of Damascus.
7 June 2024 by Veronica Bellintani + Adrian Lakrichi + Mouhanad Sharabati
Why isn’t the ICJ bolder on Syria? One year after the June 8th 2023 complaint and six months after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered measures against the Syrian government, torture and human rights violations are still committed as reported by the UN [...]
International justice: why is South Africa defending Palestine? - Photo: in 1998, Nelson Mandela (President of South Africa) prepares to embrace Yasser Arafat (President of the Palestinian Authority).
6 June 2024 by Benjamin Bibas
Why South Africa is fighting for Palestine in The Hague “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians,” said Nelson Mandela. At a time when the party he brought to power at the end of apartheid has just lost its absolute majority, these words [...]
Lundin trial in Sweden - Photo: soldiers of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) train. A man brandishes a weapon and a fist.
4 June 2024 by Olivier Truc
Lundin trial: the prosecutor counter-attacks In Stockholm, the trial of Lundin oil company executives accused of complicity in war crimes in Sudan between 1997 and 2003 is now giving the stand to witnesses. But before that, the prosecutor, under fire from the defence for the [...]
Syrian trial in Paris (France) - Obeida Dabbagh speaks to the press following the verdict of three high-ranking Syrian security officials found guilty, in their absence, of crimes against humanity (torture) committed against his brother and nephew.
3 June 2024 by Franck Petit
Syrian trial: what to learn from this first default judgment In the four-day Syrian trial in Paris, judges on May 30 gave their reasoning for the verdict handed down on May 24. In a symbolic recognition for victims, three high-ranking Syrian security officials - Ali Mamlouk, Jamil Hassan an [...]
Trial of Oleksandr Radchenko in Ukraine. Photo: A television broadcasts live images of prosecutor Dmytro Reshetnyak and Vitaliy Bessonov, one of the defence lawyers.
31 May 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova
Oleksander Radchenko, a patriot or a collaborator? Former businessman and politician Oleksander Radchenko is currently accused of complicity with Russia during the occupation of Kupiansk, in eastern Ukraine. The founder and CEO of the Kupiansk Milk Canning Factory was detained for [...]
Ndélé 1 trial before the Special Criminal Court (CPS) - Photo: Azor Kalite, Charfadine Moussa, Antar Hamat and Oscar Wordjonodroba stand behind their lawyers in their orange prison uniforms.
30 May 2024 by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
At Ndélé’s first trial, in the Central African Republic On December 5, 2023, the Special Criminal Court (CPS), a UN-backed hybrid tribunal based in Bangui, opened its second trial, devoted to the so-called “Ndélé 1” case, a conflict between communities that claimed the lives of over 80 [...]
It's time for the closing arguments and indictments (life imprisonment) in the September 28 trial in Conakry, Guinea. Photo: ex-President Moussa Dadis Camara and his co-defendants have left their box, and are seated facing the court, close to the lawyers and magistrates.
28 May 2024 by Matthias Raynal
In Guinea, the prosecution asks for life sentences On trial for the 2009 massacre in Conakry stadium, former junta leader and ex-president of Guinea, Moussa Dadis Camara, risks life in prison, as the prosecutor requested at the end of his closing arguments. Six other accused risk [...]
A national tribunal for war crimes in Liberia - Photo: Joseph Boakai speaks before parliament.
27 May 2024 by Aaron Weah
The evidence battleground for Liberia’s war crimes court On May 2nd 2024, Liberian president Joseph Boakai signed an executive order to establish a War and Economic Crimes Court – a historic and long-awaited move in the path of redressing the wounds of the country's 1989-2003 destructiv [...]