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.
Assad and Nezzar: Swiss justice finally moving, but not so convincingly
2 October 2023
by Julia Crawford
The Swiss have finally moved on two long-running, politically sensitive universal jurisdiction cases. But the chances of Algerian ex-defense minister Khaled Nezzar and former Syrian vice-president Rifaat al-Assad being brought to [...]
29 September 2023
by Margherita Capacci
Between 20,000 and 30,000 Ukrainians, soldiers and civilians, are considered missing since the start of Russia’s full scale invasion. Some were killed and their bodies never identified, or never returned. Others were abducted. Sin [...]
29 September 2023
by Julia Crawford
Belarusian Yuri Harauski was on Thursday September 28 acquitted by a Swiss cantonal court, despite his confession, of forcibly disappearing leading opposition figures in his country in 1999. The court said his statements were cont [...]
28 September 2023
by Catherine Maia and Ghislain Poissonnier
One year into the 28 September 2009 massacre trial, the first in Guinea for massive human rights violations, how should we assess it? According to the authors, the positive aspects outweigh the drawbacks, allowing the story of thi [...]
26 September 2023
by Maria Koroleva
A window into the trial of the Ukrainian “Aidar” battalion in Russia
Eighteen members of the Ukrainian “Aidar” battalion are on trial before the Russian military court of Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia. Like the 22 alleged members of the “Azov” battalion, they face charges of “participating in a te [...]
25 September 2023
by Maria Koroleva
A day of defence for the “Azov” in Rostov-on-Don military court
The military court in Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia, continues to hold hearings in the largest war-related trial, opened in June and involving 22 Ukrainian prisoners of war. Last week, Justice Info attended a hearing where defenc [...]
22 September 2023
by Molly Quell
Ukraine sees historic support at UN’s top court
This week in The Hague, for the first time a Russian representative addressed the UN Court of Justice in the case filed by Ukraine last year, two days into Russia’s full scale invasion. The two countries argued over alleged violat [...]
21 September 2023
by Olivier Truc
Lundin: serious, intimate, Sweden's longest trial sets up for the long haul
A sparse audience settled in to listen to prosecutors accuse - over 22 days - two big business bosses, in a trial due to end on February 19, 2026. On the seventh day, the prosecutor showed reports in the Stockholm courthouse of po [...]
19 September 2023
by Julia Crawford
Belarus “hit squad” member on trial in Switzerland for enforced disappearances
The Belarusian has confessed to the crimes. His trial, which opens on September 19 under universal jurisdiction at canton St. Gallen district court in Rorschach is scheduled to last only two days. A former official under President [...]
18 September 2023
by Anne Van Mourik
A stroll into Germany’s conflicted postcolonial memory
Berlin still has a monument commemorating German soldiers who died as “heroes” during the Namibian campaign, which resulted in the genocide of the Herero and Nama about 120 years ago. This tombstone shows how dominant and resistan [...]
15 September 2023
by Olena Zhezhera
Bucha: nine Russian soldiers sentenced and more trials to come
At the end of August, the Irpin City Court found nine Russian military officers guilty of war crimes committed in Bucha, Kyiv region, in March 2022. This trial held in absentia is the first following investigations in Ukraine on t [...]
14 September 2023
by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
Central African Republic: Abdoulaye Hissène caught in Special Criminal Court
After failure to arrest Hassan Bouba, Abdoulaye Hissène is the second big fish to be caught by the Special Criminal Court, a hybrid tribunal sitting in Bangui. Hissène, former military leader of the Front populaire pour la renaiss [...]
12 September 2023
by Lucy J. Gaynor
Kabuga and The Ghost of Justice Yet to Come
What lessons can be drawn from the stillborn trial of Félicien Kabuga, after the First Instance Chamber decided, on September 8, that the last major suspect in the Rwandan Tutsi genocide could not be tried because of mental illnes [...]
- International
- Special focus
11 September 2023
by Justice Info
The disappeared who will never be forgotten
Fifty years ago, General Pinochet seized power violently in Chile. His regime became the symbol of Latin America's military dictatorships, and the memory of thousands of its enforced disappeared remains vivid in Santiago. Since th [...]
8 September 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Venezuela/ICC: what’s up with the fool’s game?
For several years, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the government of Venezuela have sort of played a cat and mouse game. And meanwhile, almost ten years after Nicolas Maduro became president, serious human rights violat [...]
7 September 2023
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
War in the time of General Montoya
Colombia’s former Army commander Mario Montoya was indicted on August 30 for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The retired general is accused by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace of adopting “a de facto policy that prioriti [...]
5 September 2023
by Thierry Cruvellier
Lundin trial: "a strong signal to business"
Two top executives of a Western oil company are going on trial for complicity in war crimes. The start of the Lundin trial in Sweden on September 5 moves criminal responsibility for bosses of multinationals "from a theoretical rea [...]
4 September 2023
by Lena Bjurström
Oil and war crimes in Sudan: Lundin trial opens in Sweden
The long-awaited trial of two former executives of Swedish oil company Lundin begins in Stockholm on September 5. Alex Schneiter and Ian Lundin are charged with complicity in war crimes committed over 20 years ago in what is now S [...]