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.
10 years after the Yazidi genocide what justice?
27 February 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
In the early hours of August 3rd 2014 Islamic State militants launched a coordinated attack and forcibly took over the Sinjar region in northern Iraq, home to the Yazidi people. In the days and weeks that followed, approximately 1 [...]
27 February 2024
by Olivier Truc
It's the turn of lawyers for the second defendant, Swiss citizen Alexandre Schneiter, to present their arguments in the Lundin trial in Sweden. The defence of the former oil company CEO, prosecuted as an accessory to war crimes, c [...]
26 February 2024
by Vladyslava Kobko
Klim Kerzhayev, a Russian soldier, was accused of opening fire on a civilian car in Northeastern Ukraine, back in June 2022. The woman inside the car escaped thanks to the ingenuity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Her husband was l [...]
23 February 2024
by Franck Petit
Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, plunging the country into the deadliest war in Europe since 1945 and turning global geopolitics on its head. At the start of this conflict, and then again a year ago, Ju [...]
22 February 2024
by Clémentine Méténier
Indian homes in French Guiana: truth commission project not yet ripe
A request to create a "Truth Commission on Indian Homes in French Guiana (1935-2023)" was submitted on February 1, 2024, to the French National Assembly, in the form of a report by the Institut francophone pour la Justice et la Dé [...]
20 February 2024
by AFP
In Paraguay, a symbolic judgment on the dictatorship
On February 20, 87-year-old former police officer Eusebio Torres was sentenced by the Paraguayan courts to 30 years in prison for torture committed in 1976 during the military dictatorship. Because of his age, he will not go to pr [...]
20 February 2024
by Janet H. Anderson
Palestine’s plea against occupation
On the first day of hearings at the International Court of Justice in the Hague on the legality of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, the judges heard from Palestine’s lawyers. They emphasised the international importance of the ca [...]
16 February 2024
by Janet H. Anderson
Israel occupation: ICJ goes to the heart of the “political deadlock”
The two questions being debated from Monday 19 February - by 52 States and 3 international organisations - at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) goes all at once to the heart of the conflict that is raging, of the world lega [...]
15 February 2024
by Tetiana Fedorkova
An "ordinary man", a grain storage and the Russian occupiers
The man with grey hair, escorted into the courtroom in handcuffs, is alleged to have risen up as self-proclaimed manager of the Balakliya Grain Storage Company during the Russian occupation of that city in the Kharkiv region, east [...]
13 February 2024
by Margherita Capacci
Syrian trials translated into Arabic: the Netherlands' conclusive test
On January 22, the verdict in the first Syrian regime-related trial in the Netherlands was announced by the Hague District Court. The trial had a unique feature never before seen in Europe: it was simultaneously translated and reb [...]
12 February 2024
by Matthias Raynal
Guinea: frightened witnesses desert the trial
A new phase of the 28 September 2009 massacre trial starts this Monday, February 12, in Guinea with the appearance of a first witness – but in close session. Many fear for their safety, and many have withdrawn since the escape of [...]
9 February 2024
by Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann
Ghana’s looted Asante gold comes home – what’s the deal?
After 150 years, 39 artefacts that form part of Asante’s royal regalia are due to return to the Asantehene – the ruler of the Asante people – in Kumasi, Ghana, in February and April this year. Archaeologist and Ghana heritage spec [...]
8 February 2024
by Maria Koroleva
More than 200 Ukrainians tried in the occupied territories
More than 200 Ukrainian servicemen have been sentenced in Russian trials since the start of the "special operation" on February 24, 2022, head of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin said in January. Justice Inf [...]
6 February 2024
by Grace Matsiko
“Kwoyelo was born and grew up here”
“I don’t know what interest government has in my son, not to release him,” Thomas Kwoyelo’s mother tells Justice Info in his home village of Acut Cama Ceri, nestled in tall, overgrown savanna in northern Uganda. The mother of the [...]
5 February 2024
by Grace Matsiko
Uganda: apologies but still no trial for ex-LRA Kwoyelo
Sitting some 300 km away in a high security prison in Kampala, former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) colonel Thomas Kwoyelo appeared via video link on January 19 before Uganda’s International Crimes Division. It had organized anothe [...]
2 February 2024
by Thierry Cruvellier
Massaquoi affair: epilogue to a fiasco
On January 31, the Turku Court of Appeal in Finland confirmed the acquittal of Gibril Massaquoi on all charges. The former Sierra Leonean rebel commander was accused of multiple crimes committed in Liberia between 1999 and 2003. A [...]
1 February 2024
by Julia Crawford
Three years after the coup, hopes of justice for Myanmar?
February 1 marks three years since the coup in Myanmar, where the military regime is accused of widespread abuses against civilians. It is also more than six years since 700,000 Rohingya were forced to flee to Bangladesh. With the [...]
1 February 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Is international justice relevant to prevent genocide in Gaza?
Swedish lawyer of Palestinian origin Nada Kiswanson has for the last 15 years provided evidence to various international institutions including the International Criminal Court, in order, she says, to “bring to an end violations c [...]
30 January 2024
by Marlies Stappers + Sanne Weber
A Belgian court provides hope for justice in Guatemala
In December 2023, a historical trial took place in Leuven, Belgium. Five high-level officials from Guatemala’s military and political apparatus stood trial for murder, enforced disappearance and torture of Belgian missionaries in [...]