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.
20 March 2023
by Julia Crawford
On March 17, in a dramatic move, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it had issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and his child protection chief for forced deportation of children as a war crime. A UN report issue [...]
17 March 2023
by AFP
The judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on March 17 that they had issued an arrest warrant for the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Russia's Commission [...]
16 March 2023
by Lena Bjurström
On March 17, the French high court will examine appeals in two Syrian war crimes and crimes against humanity cases. The outcome could affect the future of French universal jurisdiction and of more than a third of such investigatio [...]
16 March 2023
by AFP
UN investigation in Ukraine: Russian war crimes were committed at a "massive scale"
A United Nations commission of inquiry established a year ago issued its first written report on March 16. It concludes that violations of the laws of war were committed "at a massive scale" by the Russian Federation in Ukraine. O [...]
14 March 2023
by Thierry Cruvellier
Forced transfer of children and destruction of civilian infrastructure: what the ICC is up to in Ukraine, according to the New York Times
The leading US daily revealed on 13 March that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is about to seek arrest warrants for Russian officials for war crimes committed in Ukraine. The first two cases concern the ab [...]
13 March 2023
by Iryna Salii
War crime in Ukraine: A Russian pilot is convicted… and exchanged
This is the first case of a Russian pilot being sentenced in Ukraine and present in court. On March 2 Lieutenant Colonel Maksim Krishtop was found guilty of committing a war crime for the bombing of the Kharkiv television tower. H [...]
10 March 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Migrant traffickers on trial in Europe
Following up on Justice Info’s article published last month, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts Janet Anderson, Stephanie van den Berg and Margherita Capacci ask: How come two Eritrean men are on trial in Italy and the Netherla [...]
10 March 2023
by Astrid Nonbo Andersen and Astri Dankertsen
Truth and reconciliation in Norway amidst a crisis of trust
At a hearing on March 6 the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was directly caught in the middle of a crisis between the state and Indigenous peoples and national minorities. A week before intense protests by the [...]
9 March 2023
by Olfa Belhassine
Adel Maizi: "Remembrance isn’t just about the past, it helps build the future"
Adel Maizi chaired the “memory committee” at Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the International Council on Archives, where he is an expert on archives and human rights. Maizi explains how [...]
6 March 2023
by Maxim Shanahan
Yoorrook Truth-Commission: Cold light on the child protection system
The Yoorrook Truth Commission, in Victoria state, southeast Australia, restarted on Wednesday March 1 with a third round of hearings centred on truth-telling about the removal of the Aboriginal children from their families and chi [...]
3 March 2023
by Kateryna Trokhymchuk
“For a fistful of Hryvnia…” - the story of the first SBU agent convicted for treason in Ukraine
Sergei Govorukha is the first SBU officer convicted of state treason in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion. The military counter-intelligence agency was openly singled out last July, when its chief Ivan Bakanov (and prosec [...]
2 March 2023
by Julia Crawford
Ethiopia promises transitional justice once again
Ethiopia signed a peace agreement in November. In January, the government published a draft document on “policy options” for transitional justice. In February, it moved to try and end a UN expert commission that has pointed to pos [...]
28 February 2023
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Kabuga trial: for Rwandans, "the old man is still hiding”
"Justice administered in the silence of their offices with only them as witnesses to what they’re doing, this is not justice!" This outburst from an official of the victims' association Ibuka sums up the frustration in Rwanda at n [...]
27 February 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Guinea: Victims have their say at the stadium massacre trial
On February 14 at the Dixinn Criminal Court trying the stadium massacre in Guinea’s capital Conakry, the hearing of plaintiffs began. The first tragic accounts of victims, after five months of hearing the accused, are lending weig [...]
23 February 2023
by AFP
Syrian trial in Berlin: life imprisonment for a militiaman
A Berlin court on February 23 sentenced former Syrian militiaman Moafak D. to life in jail for firing a grenade launcher on a crowd of civilians in the Yarmouk camp, near Damascus. This is the third trial for war crimes related to [...]
23 February 2023
by Franck Petit
Frédéric Mégret: "Justice for Ukraine depends on the outcome of the fighting”
JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Frédéric Mégret Professor and co-director of the William Dawson Chair in Human Rights and Legal Pluralism One year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, its leaders remain largely immune from interna [...]
21 February 2023
by Molly Quell
Trial of ex-KLA member Pjetër Shala starts in The Hague
Nicknamed “Commander Wolf”, Pjetër Shala’s name has come up before both the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the European Union’s rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, without deeming it necessa [...]
21 February 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
How the eight « stateless » of the ICTR live in Niger
A year ago, the Arusha branch of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) sent eight acquitted and released Rwandan persons to Niger, but Niger then said it didn’t want them and they are still blocked in [...]