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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.

War in Yemen: justice at a standstill. Photo: Yemenis brandish weapons in support of Palestine.
Yemen: a decade of war with no sign of justice
28 March 2024 by Julia Crawford
Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea, ostensibly to support Palestinians in Gaza, and retaliatory United States-United Kingdom airstrikes have reminded us in these last months of Yemen’s forgotten war. The conflict has been ongo [...]
Collaboration trial in Ukraine - Video of Oleksandr Kharchenko, one of the defendants. Chronicle of a tandem collaboration in a village near Kyiv
26 March 2024 by Iryna Salii
In this rare legal chronicle, which covers several months of trials of two men in two courts in the region of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, our correspondent tells the story of how collaboration with the Russian occupiers tak [...]
Nika Jeiranashvili tells how he went from international justice expert to wine expert in Georgia Nika, the Georgian international justice repentant
25 March 2024 by Franck Petit
There are many who have been disappointed by international justice, but few who speak so frankly and draw such clear-cut conclusions. Nika Jeiranashvili was the face of Georgian civil society, in The Hague, during the Internationa [...]
Demonstration in Vilnius (Lithuania). Two women hold signs saying It is "now or never", for a special tribunal on Russia's aggression
22 March 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
To what extent is an ad hoc court on the crime of aggression still on the table, two years and a month after the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine? Discussions are still taking place behind closed doors, explain our Asymmetri [...]
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International Criminal Court (ICC) judge Antoine Kesia Mbe Mindua has disappeared. What impact will this have on the al-Hassan case in Mali?
22 March 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
Missing judge at the ICC: Al Hassan trial postponed indefinitely While the London court was abuzz with speculation about a missing princess, at The Hague court the parties to the trial of the Malian Al Hassan were left in a similar state of uncertainty following the disappearance of a judge, pu [...]
Mevloud Kharazishvili, victim of the war in Georgia and beneficiary of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Trust Fund for Victims assistance programme. Photo: Kharazishvili shows the pasture where he was kidnapped by Russian soldiers.
21 March 2024 by Franck Petit
Georgia: ICC Trust Fund for Victims struggles with reality The central Georgian town of Gori is known as the birthplace of Stalin, whose statue long stood before the town hall and was only removed after the Russia-Georgia war of August 2008. For almost a year now, Gori has been the site o [...]
In the Central African Republic, the Special Criminal Court (SCC) is expected to decide reparation for victims. Photo: First trial of the Special Criminal Court in Bangui, in 2022.
19 March 2024 by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
Reparations: Special Criminal Court opts for pragmatism One year and six months after its first verdict, handed down in October 2022, the Special Criminal Court (CPS) is expected to carry out one of its most delicate tasks: compensating victims. Reparation for the harm resulting from t [...]
Trial of a Ukrainian in Russia: Anton Cherednik, in Rostov-on-Don.
18 March 2024 by Maria Koroleva
Russia: 30 times fewer Ukrainians sentenced than in the occupied territories In Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia, courts report on new sentences almost every week, but in Russia the Southern Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has issued nearly 30 times fewer verdicts in the past year, Justice Info has [...]
Martin Schibbye is a journalist, one of the few covering the Lundin trial in Sweden. Photo: Schibbye stands alone at the entrance to courtroom 34 in Stockholm.
15 March 2024 by Olivier Truc
Martin Schibbye (journalist): “Sweden believed in Lundin” Six months have passed since the start of the longest trial in Swedish history, which will last another two years. Time for a first assessment by one of its most assiduous observers, Martin Schibbye, who spent 438 days of his life [...]
At the trial of Ousman Sonko in Switzerland (where he is on trial for crimes committed in the Gambia), the defence team, led by Philippe Currat, poses in front of the Federal Court in Bellinzona.
14 March 2024 by Mariam Sankanu
Sonko trial: final words before the verdict Closing arguments have now ended in the trial of former Gambian interior minister Ousman Sonko at the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona. “If a country as rich and developed as yours is unable to provide its prisoners with [...]
In-depth interview with Catherine Marchi-Uhel, Head of the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) for Syria. Image: drawing of Marchi-Uhel.
12 March 2024 by Julia Crawford
Catherine Marchi-Uhel: “The results of the Syria Mechanism are becoming more visible” Catherine Marchi-Uhel of France is the first head of the first UN evidence-gathering mechanism, the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) for Syria, created in 2016 in Geneva. After seven years in office, she w [...]
In Colombia, how will the JEP apply its commitments on sanctions? Photo: FARC officials at the signing of part of the peace agreement in December 2015 in Cuba.
11 March 2024 by Juanita Goebertus + Juan Pappier
Sanctions in Colombia’s justice process: How to get it right The way Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace will impose sanctions on individuals it has held responsible for serious crimes is crucial to the whole transitional justice model. And it is yet to be clarified by the tribunal. H [...]
War crimes in Ukraine and ICC arrest warrants - Photo: Sergey Surovikin (former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army) and Vladimir Putin pose in front of Russian flags.
8 March 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
Ukraine: “We could still expect another ICC arrest warrant soon” Law Professor Sergey Vasiliev analyses the two arrest warrants issued on March 5 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Sergey Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov, two top officers of the Russian army. He explains what we know [...]
Gambia - Trial of Ousman Sonko in Switzerland. Photo: in front of the Swiss Federal Court in Bellinzona.
7 March 2024 by Mariam Sankanu
Ousman Sonko, the “mastermind” On March 4, the prosecution concluded its closing arguments in the trial of Ousman Sonko, in Switzerland. They asked for the former interior minister of the Gambia to be sentenced to life for a number of serious crimes committed i [...]
School bombed by Russian air force in Ukraine
5 March 2024 by AFP
ICC indicts two high-ranking Russian military commanders On March 5, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Sergei Kobylach, head of Russia's strategic air force, and Viktor Sokolov, head of Russia's Black Sea fleet. They are charged with war crimes and crimes [...]
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has heard arguments from Aishath Shaan Shakir for the Maldives, on the subject of Israel's occupation of Palestine.
5 March 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
Is the ICJ the new “nuclear weapon” of small states? The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) is now subject to thousands of memes and TikTok videos of its proceedings. A whole new generation have found out about this court via its involvement in the ongoing wars in Pale [...]
Hearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of The Gambia (TRRC)
4 March 2024 by Mariam Sankanu
How Gambia’s truth commission findings shaped the Sonko trial The trial of Ousman Sonko, former Interior minister of The Gambia, resumes today in Switzerland. Parties are expected to present their closing arguments. A striking fact of the evidence put before the Swiss court last January was [...]
A senior jurist from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) listens to a victim in Colombia.
1 March 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The original internal sin of Colombia’s JEP An opaque recruitment process at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has brought unease and criticism. It came in stark contrast to the exemplary way judges of the transitional justice criminal court were selected. It also hi [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ordered €52 million in reparations for the victims of Dominic Ongwen in Uganda. Photo: Judge Bertram Schmitt.
29 February 2024 by Lucy Gaynor
The wild reparations order of the ICC On February 28, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced their decision on reparations to victims in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan rebel commander convicted three years ago. They came up with a mom [...]