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.
Rwanda: Venant Rutunga, a genocide suspect who can defend himself
26 June 2023
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Many trials of genocide suspects sent back to Rwanda have been concluded without defence witnesses. But at the trial of Venant Rutunga, extradited from the Netherlands, several witnesses came to his defence. One of them publicly e [...]
23 June 2023
by Lena Bjurström
Former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana, on trial in Paris for genocide and crimes against humanity, briefly restated his position before his final questioning. Yes, he said, the Tutsi genocide took place in Rwanda in 1994. [...]
22 June 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
There were many objections after the decision by the UN Mechanism in charge of trying Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga to continue the trial through an undefined and unprecedented “alternative procedure” although he has be [...]
22 June 2023
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) presented a new indictment on 29 May. It is the first against a civilian politician, the first for persecution as a crime against humanity, and the first from the troubled prosecution secti [...]
20 June 2023
by Lena Bjurström
I was 10 years old in Rwanda in 1994 and now a prosecution witness
A dozen people who were under 15 in 1994 have testified at the genocide trial of former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana before a Paris court. With frozen scenes, lost details and distorted time, they recount the chaos and m [...]
19 June 2023
by Franck Petit and Jean-Fernand Koena
Central African Republic: Special Court hands down first reparations decision
After several months of hesitation, the Special Criminal Court on June 16 handed down in Bangui a first reparations decision in its first and only trial. This decision does not fully meet the expectations of the victims, who were [...]
16 June 2023
by Géraldine Giraudeau
Why those experiencing "climate hell" are taking their case to the UN Court
Those whose feet are already in the water, in the Pacific, have opened a front in the battle for climate justice before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Netherlands. Solicited by a resolution of the United Nations G [...]
15 June 2023
by Anastasia Zubova
GPS and pepper: rare trial of a Ukrainian “strike corrector”
"Strike correctors", who help Russian forces direct their missiles, are among the most feared and tracked traitors in Ukraine. But trials are rare. On May 29, a District Court of Kropyvnytskyi found Mykola Fomenko, a 41-year-old r [...]
13 June 2023
by Margherita Capacci
ICC: the never-ending nightmare of Darfur's victims
This is the first trial for serious crimes committed in Darfur. On June 5 in The Hague, the victims’ representatives took the floor in the Ali-Kushayb case at the International Criminal Court (ICC), amidst ongoing violence in Suda [...]
12 June 2023
by Simon Foreman
Universal Jurisdiction: movement to end the French exception?
In France, the Court of Cassation lifted two major constraints on universal jurisdiction on May 12. At the end of May, however, during negotiations on an international cooperation treaty in Ljubjana, Paris showed its concern to pr [...]
9 June 2023
by Maxim Shanahan
A first (civil) ruling confirms Australia's war crimes in Afghanistan
It's 'just' a civil defamation case, but it has caused thunder in Australia. Soldier Ben Roberts-Smith lost the case against the media accusing him of war crimes in Afghanistan, and to establish this the media had to present evide [...]
8 June 2023
by Thierry Cruvellier
Kabuga: heading for a palliative trial?
According to his judges, Félicien Kabuga can be tried but not convicted. On June 6, a UN tribunal ruled that the Rwandan, aged 88 (or 90, according to him), is no longer fit to stand trial. But instead of suspending the case, the [...]
6 June 2023
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Rwanda: slowly, the justice net is closing on the last genocide fugitives
Fulgence Kayishema’s arrest on May 24 in South Africa comes 29 years after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It’s expected he will be the fourth fugitive from the former UN tribunal for Rwanda to be sent back to his country for trial. [...]
5 June 2023
by Antoine Harari in Bellinzona (Switzerland)
Appeals court convicts Liberian Alieu Kosiah of crimes against humanity
A Swiss appeals court on June 1 confirmed a 20-year prison sentence for Alieu Kosiah, former commander of an armed group in Liberia in the 1990s. Kosiah was already the first person convicted of war crimes by a Swiss civil court. [...]
2 June 2023
by Molly Quell
After 30 years, the UN court’s last verdict on former Yugoslavia
It took a record 20 years for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia – created in May 1993 and later replaced by “the Mechanism” – to complete the trial of two former Serbian spy masters. Arrested in 2003 [...]
1 June 2023
by Mariam Sankanu
Is The Gambia a step closer to moving on with trials and reparations?
On May 12, the Gambian president Adama Barrow has issued an implementation plan of the 2021 recommendations of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. He has announced a 9-million euro pledge by the European Union. A [...]
30 May 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Vanuatu brings climate justice to the ICJ
On March 29 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on climate change. The resolution was championed by the small Pacific Island nation [...]
30 May 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Conakry’s groundbreaking trial threatened by financial issues
In Guinea, eight months after the start of a historic trial, some lawyers - for both the defence and the victims - have never been paid. On 29 May, they went on strike. They are demanding legal aid, which the government refuses to [...]
26 May 2023
by Lena Bjurström
Controversial priest dodges in Hategekimana trial
Rwandan priest Hormisdas Nsengimana was heard on 22 May at the trial of former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana. Accused himself of genocide and crimes against humanity, the cleric was acquitted in 2009 by the UN tribunal fo [...]