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.
At Guinea massacre trial, Dadis Camara is accused by his bodyguard
17 July 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Returning to the stand eight months after his first appearance, former presidential guard and suspect in the 2009 massacre trial Marcel Guilavogui blasted former head of state Moussa Dadis Camara, highlighting for the first time t [...]
14 July 2023
by AFP
It took four years for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to reach a final decision on reparations following the conviction in 2019 of former Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda. Sentenced to 30 years in prison, he received the h [...]
13 July 2023
by Guillaume Perrier
May’s elections in Turkey have strengthened the hand of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in power for 20 years and has just appointed his former security chief Hakan Fidan as foreign minister. This has dashed human rights [...]
11 July 2023
by Franck Petit
In an interview with Justice Info, the head of the War Crimes Department at the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine takes stock of what has been achieved since the start of the Russian invasion. Yuriy Belousov describes th [...]
10 July 2023
by Franck Petit
Kakhovka dam: Ukraine pioneers prosecution for ecocide
The scale of ecological disaster triggered on June 6 by the explosion of Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam, located on a Russian-occupied stretch of the Dnieper River, makes this an exemplary case for prosecuting environmental crimes. T [...]
7 July 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
What’s in the “MLA” Treaty?
It was not easy to bring attention and interest to what was going on Ljubjana, Slovenia, early June. Some state representatives and experts and NGOs had gathered to finalize the text of a new potential international convention: th [...]
7 July 2023
by Margherita Capacci
The ICPA, new kid on the block in the world capital of international justice
Almost any new institution in international justice has to be in the Dutch city of The Hague. On July 3, there was a newcomer: the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression (ICPA). Ukraine and a number of [...]
6 July 2023
by Maria Koroleva
The low-level and controversial trial of the Azov regiment in Russia
In June, a court in Rostov-on-Don began to consider a criminal case against 24 prisoners of war whom Russia considers members of the Ukrainian Azov regiment. It is the largest scale, war-related trial to be held in Russia to date. [...]
4 July 2023
by Iryna Salii
A chief prosecutor, a Telegram account and the memory of a deadly strike
This is the first time an official of this rank is being tried in Ukraine for high treason, and there was tension from the day it started. Gennadyi Herman was a head prosecutor in Mykolaïv when Russia’s invasion began, and the cit [...]
3 July 2023
by Mariam Sankanu
The disappeared in The Gambia, a missing investigation
In its recently disclosed implementation plan, the Gambian government says it will set up a task force to complete and expand the work accomplished by the Truth commission on enforced disappearances. Four cases involving five indi [...]
30 June 2023
by Olena Zhyla
In Sumy, a Ukrainian mayor is on trial for high treason
Ukrainian courts are moving to try higher-level authorities for alleged collaboration with Russia, or treason. In Sumy, a region bordering Russia in the North-East of Ukraine that was partly occupied by Russian troops between late [...]
29 June 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
A dam in Ukraine and the question of ecocide
The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Southern Ukraine early June has been described as ecocide by Ukrainian authorities who accused Russia of being responsible for an action that caused massive environmental damage. Ukraine [...]
29 June 2023
by Lena Bjurström
Hategekimana proves classic Rwandan case
A French court on June 28 sentenced former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana to life in jail for genocide and crimes against humanity. In the final days of this trial, where testimony was central, the prosecution and defence [...]
27 June 2023
by Maria Koroleva
Rostov-on-Don, the city where Russia tries Ukrainian fighters – and foreigners
Rostov-on-Don has just been in the news for the Wagner armed militia’s brief uprising. But it is also in this large town in western Russia that the first Russian trials of captured Ukrainian fighters are being held. One of them, a [...]
26 June 2023
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Rwanda: Venant Rutunga, a genocide suspect who can defend himself
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
Philippe Hategekimana makes final statement, then goes silent
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
Has trying Kabuga become absurd?
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
Colombia: Special tribunal indicts first prominent politician
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 [...]