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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.

What justice for arms dealers and their complicity in the crimes committed in Gaza, including genocide? Photo: An Israeli armoured vehicle drives through a destroyed street in Gaza City.
Gaza: when will the “lords of war” face criminal trial?
27 October 2025 by Damien Scalia + Elisa Novic
Can the fragile prospect of peace in Gaza wipe the slate clean of the crimes and complicity of arms suppliers?
The First Peoples Assembly of Victoria addresses the Victorian State Parliament. Photo: Marcus Stewart (co-chair of the Assembly), wearing traditional Australian Indigenous clothing, delivers a speech surrounded by politicians in more ‘classic’ attire. Victoria, still the ‘tip of the spear’ of First Nations
23 October 2025 by Maxim Shanahan
In the state of Victoria, the first treaty between an Australian government and First Peoples is on the verge of ratification, after a bill giving effect to the agreement passed the lower house of the parliament last week.
Portrait of Bashar al-Assad painted on a wall in Syria, showing bullet holes. Assad targeted by new French arrest warrant
23 October 2025 by AFP
French investigating judges issued a third arrest warrant on 29 July against former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for chemical attacks carried out in 2013, according to judicial sources.
A truck filled with parcels, with men standing on top, stops in front of a group of people waiting calmly. ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza
22 October 2025 by AFP
While humanitarian aid agencies struggle to flow back into Gaza following a fragile ceasefire, the UN’s top court said on Wednesday October 22, 2025, that Israel has a legal obligation to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
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Monuments and art projects are being set up in memory of the victims of the war in Irpin, Ukraine. Photo: Piles of burnt-out, yellowed car wrecks. Sunflowers are painted on them.
21 October 2025 by Anastasia Zubova
Irpin and the concept of ‘bright memory’ At the start of Russia’s widespread invasion of Ukraine, the violence against civilians in Bucha and Irpin made headlines. The city of Irpin is taking on the task of memorializing these events.
Monuments commemorating war crimes in Ukraine. Photo: A monument dedicated to the victims of war crimes depicts a missing family seen through a hole in a wall. In the background is a destroyed multi-storey building.
20 October 2025 by Nata Chernetskaya
How memorialisation initiatives come to life in Ukraine How does Ukraine remember its citizens who died as a result of war crimes? In the cities of Odessa, Mykolaiv and Kherson, the military administration, local governments, artists and philosophers are getting involved and are creating a large number of memorials.
Entrance to the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) camp in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Two guards in uniforms bearing the letters ‘RAB’ stand guard at the entrance to the camp in front of a large black iron gate displaying the unit's coat of arms.
17 October 2025 by David Bergman
Crackdown on forced disappearance alleged perpetrators Bangladesh seems to be tackling head-on the scourge of enforced disappearances under the former regime. On 8 October, 24 arrest warrants were issued against army officers allegedly responsible for crimes against humanity, and within a week, 13 had been detained.
In Liberia, heavily armed fighters from the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) are gathered around a wrecked car. One of them appears to be shouting angrily at another person further away.
16 October 2025 by Tony Chalot
Belgium finally decides to try Martina Johnson After 11 years of investigation, Belgian judicial authorities have closed a war crimes investigation against Martina Johnson, a former Liberian commander close to Charles Taylor. She is accused of torture and mutilation in the 1990s.
Joseph Kabila, former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was sentenced to death on 30 September. Photo: Kabila is seated in an armchair on a raised terrace. He faces several people with his hands folded. In the background: trees.
14 October 2025 by Caleb Kazadi
Kabila: a trial to intimidate Ithiel Batumike, a jurist at Congolese political research institute Ebuteli, answers Justice Info’s questions after the High Military Court in Kinshasa on September 30 handed down a death sentence on Joseph Kabila.
Trial in absentia in Ukraine. Photo: Two women stand in front of a destroyed house in the village of Lukashivka in Ukraine.
13 October 2025 by Natalia Naidiuk
Justice in absentia in a Ukrainian village What has justice been able to achieve for Lukashivka, a village of less than 400 residents in the Chernihiv region (North of Ukraine), three years and a half after its liberation?
Ali Kushayb sentenced at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: Kosheib sinks into his chair as he hears the sentences handed down by the judges.
10 October 2025 by Margherita Capacci
Ali Kushayb, the convicted symbol of crimes in Darfur Followed by Sudanese in The Hague and in refugees’ camps near Darfur, offering finally “some relief” to the victims, the judgement handed down on Monday 6 October 2025 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, alias Ali Kushayb, remains an isolated act of justice.
International Court of Justice (ICJ). Photo: view of the court during the reading of the ruling rejecting Sudan’s complaint accusing the United Arab Emirates of complicity in genocide.
10 October 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
ICJ: instructions for a much-used tool Opening with Mali’s recent application against Algeria before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), this new podcast from our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts updates the practices and techniques used by the many states that resort to this busy court.
End of a hearing before the IRMCT, in The Hague, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia (ICTR and ICTY). In the background, Judge Iain Bonomy.
7 October 2025 by Lucy Gaynor
The many endings of the Kabuga trial When is a trial no longer a trial? When is a defendant no longer a defendant? When is a court no longer a court?
Ali Kushayb (former senior commander of the Janjaweed militia in Sudan) at the ICC
6 October 2025 by AFP
ICC: Kushayb guilty of crimes against humanity in Darfur In the first trial for the gravest crimes committed in Darfur, Sudan, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted a Sudanese militia chief for war crimes and crimes against humanity, on October 6, 2025.
According to a Dutch division of the OECD, in Peru, the Pluspetrol company (based in the Netherlands) allegedly exploited oil resources in violation of indigenous peoples' rights, without regard for the environmental impact. Photo: Protest march by the Quechua indigenous people in Peru. The protesters wear traditional accessories and face paint and carry spears in their hands.
6 October 2025 by Margherita Capacci
An alternative way to hold companies responsible How a Dutch panel established that an Argentinian oil company with headquarters in Amsterdam, Pluspetrol, violated the rights of Indigenous peoples in Peru.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, an investigation by the Center for Research on Public Finance and Local Development (CREFDL) has uncovered embezzlement from a fund set up to help victims in Kisangani: Frivao. Image: a graphic design shows the word ‘Frivao’ dissolving in liquid.
3 October 2025 by Caleb Kazadi
DRC: Should the Victims' Fund be dissolved? An investigation by the Center for Research on Public Finance and Local Development in Kinshasa has exposed the embezzlement of millions of dollars from Frivao.
Trial of former Vice President Riek Machar in South Sudan. Photo: Machar, seated in a comfortable chair, smiles at the photographer from behind bars.
2 October 2025 by Jehanne Henry
The risky trial of Riek Machar Until last March Riek Machar was the vice-president of South Sudan. He is now on trial for war crimes. And it’s not the first time justice is being instrumentalized for politics in the world’s younger state.
Mô Bleeker works for the UN on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) that falls to Member States where mass crimes are perpetrated (genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity). Photo: Mô Bleeker speaks (her hands are raised) during an interview with our journalist at a restaurant.
30 September 2025 by Julia Crawford
Mô Bleeker: “You don’t have to wait until it’s a genocide to react” What does the 2005 international commitment to Responsibility to Protect mean when atrocity crimes are committed in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere? An interview with the UN Secretary General’s Special Advisor.
In Myanmar, the Rohingya population was the victim in 2017 of crimes that could be linked to an intent to commit genocide, including the destruction of land and villages. Photo: a village burns while men armed with knives and slingshots pass in the foreground.
29 September 2025 by Janet H. Anderson
Myanmar: Making sure there is no return On September 29, the UN Fact-Finding Mechanism on Myanmar publishes a report on “the destruction and seizure of Rohingya homes, farms, mosques, and other property in 2017.” An integral part of the genocide, it says.