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Palestine / Israel - Karim Khan: International Criminal Court's prosecutor (ICC)
ICC’s Khan goes after Israel and Hamas
24 May 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
This is the biggest event they have covered in international justice, acknowledge Stephanie van den Berg and Janet Anderson, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts. On May 20 the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [...]
Yaron Wax, deputy head of mission for the Israeli embassy in the Netherlands, British lawyer and member of Israel's legal team, Malcom Shaw KC and Member of Israel's legal team Avigail Frisch Ben Avraham attend a hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as part of South Africa's request on a Gaza ceasefire in The Hague, on May 24, 2024. The ICJ’s warning to Israel
24 May 2024 by AFP
The International Court of Justice's (ICJ) warning to Israel on May 24 is barely veiled. The court orders Israel to immediately cease its offensive on Rafah, Gaza, and makes it clear that, if it doesn't, the risk of being accused [...]
Syrian trial in France. Photo: Bashar al-Assad poster on a street in Damascus, Syria. In France, a first Syrian trial “by default”
24 May 2024 by Franck Petit
The trial of three high-ranking Syrian officials opened on 21 May before the Paris Assize Court. Tried in their absence, they are charged with complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes. A symbolic trial for France. And [...]
A criminal complaint has been filed against Booking.com for money laundering in connection with war crimes. Photo: an accommodation offered by Booking.com on which is written “Booking.occupiedterritories”. Is Booking.com profiting from war crimes in Palestine?
23 May 2024 by Tjitske Lingsma
On May 23, a collective of European and Palestinian NGOs made public a criminal complaint against Booking.com in The Netherlands. They accuse the company of money laundering in connection to war crimes, as the enterprise profits f [...]
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) team behind the arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel and Hamas. Photo: Karim Khan, Brenda Hollis and Andrew Cayley.
21 May 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
Behind the scenes of the ICC Prosecutor’s coup d’éclat This is the first time a prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has requested arrest warrants against a sitting Western-backed head of state. Pressure is now on judges at the ICC to confirm (or not) the prosecutor’s applic [...]
ICC arrest warrants against Israel and Hamas. Photo montage of 3 flags: Hamas, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Israel.
21 May 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier
Israel/Palestine: the moment of truth On 20 May, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court asked the judges to issue arrest warrants for crimes against humanity and war crimes against the Israeli Prime Minister and Defence Minister alongside three major leade [...]
Will there soon be trials for Yahya Jammeh's crimes in Gambia? - Photo: Gambian President Adama Barrow adopts a wait-and-see stance at a meeting of African countries belonging to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
17 May 2024 by Mariam Sankanu
Gambia: the end of the wait-and-see strategy? On April 22, two bills expected to kickstart the prosecution process for crimes committed under the 22-year rule of former President Yahya Jammeh were passed at the Gambian Parliament. They should make it possible to establish a h [...]
Sonko trial in Switzerland: former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko found guilty of crimes against humanity, including the murder of Solo Sandeng. Photo: Fatoumata Sandeng, daughter of Ousman Solo Sandeng, holds a sign reading “I am Solo”.
16 May 2024 by Mariam Sankanu
Ousman Sonko gets maximum punishment The trial against former Interior minister of The Gambia, Ousman Sonko, came to a wrap on May 15. The Swiss Federal Court of Bellinzona handed him a 20-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity. This is the highest sentence [...]
The Hotel des Mille Collines in Rwanda
14 May 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial The Brussels Assize Court, which is currently trying Belgian-Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina, former manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in K [...]
Irina Navalnaya trial in Russia. Photo: Navalnaya adopts a dreamy, feminine pose behind the glass of the dock. The young Ukrainian woman is accused of terrorism.
13 May 2024 by Maria Koroleva
Navalnaya’s case: how Ukrainian civilians are tried in Russia Irina Navalnaya, a 26-year-old Ukrainian woman, has been on trial in Russia for six months for allegedly attempting to blow up the Mariupol district administration building during the so-called referendum in the Donetsk People’s R [...]
Counting the victims - Photo: Yemeni children in a civilian builing destoyed during the war.
10 May 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Counting the victims of a conflict: who does it, how? What sources provide reliable information on the number of civilian and military casualties in a conflict? How are these figures collected, sorted and interpreted? This is the subject explored by our partners from Asymmetrical Hai [...]
Russell Tribunal (citizen's tribunal): interview with Guillaume Mouralis - Illustration: portrait of Guillaume Mouralis.
10 May 2024 by Clémentine Méténier
Guillaume Mouralis: “law and justice can be powerful tools of emancipation” When international justice is lacking, citizens’ tribunals appear as a means of kick-starting justice when the will of States is not there. The historic model of the Russell Tribunal in 1967 established that the Americans used pro [...]
People’s Tribunal on the Murders of Journalists (Nieuwe Kerk, The Hague, Netherlands).
7 May 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
People’s tribunals: “Simply pressing a start button” It’s a court, but also not a court. It has the trappings of some of the Hague courts – judges, officials and witnesses – and deals with high-profile cases, like the next known that is due to hear, on May 16-17, the Filipino P [...]
Crime of starvation in Gaza: will the ICC act? - Photo: Palestinians crowd around a food distribution point in Rafah.
6 May 2024 by Anne Van Mourik + Lucy Gaynor
Starvation and potential ICC warrants on Gaza: what does international law say? Arrest warrants for Israeli leaders are reportedly – according to sources in The Hague and Israel – being prepared by the International Criminal Court (ICC), possibly related to allegations of starvation. Anne van Mourik [...]
Climate justice in Switzerland - Activists from the Senior Women for Climate Protection association welcome the ECHR verdict.
3 May 2024 by Benjamin Bibas
Switzerland condemned by the ECHR: a decisive step for climate justice in Europe The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of a group of Swiss women over 64, saying that their State’s inadequate steps against climate change constitute a violation of their human rights. Why is this a pioneering dec [...]
The Syrian lawyer Mazen Darwish talks to the media in Koblenz, Germany.
3 May 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Darwish: collecting evidence, to avoid revenge and another war in Syria For this hundredth episode of the podcast from our dear partners and colleagues at Asymmetrical Haircuts, our guest is Syrian lawyer Mazen Darwish, who is present and active in all the universal jurisdiction processes concerning B [...]
Thomas Kwoyelo at his trial in Uganda
2 May 2024 by Grace Matsiko
Kwoyelo: “At no time did I kill any one” Dressed in a grey suit, red-spotted tie and matching shoes, former Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander Thomas Kwoyelo was able to speak in his own defence for the first time. For a week, ending April 30, a Ugandan court [...]
At the end of March 2024, officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) visited officials from Nigeria. Photo: around fifteen people pose.
30 April 2024 by Julia Crawford
The ICC on Nigeria: Years of words, but no action How did Africa’s most populous country get buried in the recesses of the ICC? Focusing on Ukraine and Gaza, Prosecutor Karim Khan seems to have forgotten a case opened by his predecessor, who herself took ten years to conclude tha [...]
Between Eritrea and the Netherlands, the nightmare of migrants who are victims of human trafficking. Photo: A migrant in a detention centre in Tripoli, Libya, stands with one hand on his cheek, almost appearing to be asleep.
29 April 2024 by Margherita Capacci
Waiting for Eritrean human traffickers’ trials in the Netherlands A year and six months after a string of arrests of human traffickers accused of holding families living in the Netherlands to ransom, Dutch courts are making slow progress towards trials. Our correspondent attended the latest hear [...]