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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.

Illustration showing a concrete mixer truck (with the Lafarge logo printed on it) stopped at a checkpoint manned by several figures dressed in black, armed and wearing balaclavas. A long arm extends from the truck, holding a suitcase filled with banknotes bearing the image of Bashar al-Assad. On the side is an ISIS flag.
War and business: Lafarge in the dock
10 November 2025 by Justice Info
The Lafarge trial, which is being held from November 4 to December 19, 2025, in a court in Paris, is addressing unusual questions about the criminal liability of companies operating in war zones.
Dennis van Berkel “The most conscious step was to take climate change to national courts”
7 November 2025 by Benjamin Bibas
The COP30 on climate begins on November 10. Dennis van Berkel, co-founder of the Climate Litigation Network, reviews the history of 10 years of climate litigation and how climate responsibility has trickled up to the international level.
Women wearing burqas in Afghanistan Fighting frustration on accountability in Afghanistan
6 November 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
There is no shortage of initiatives regarding justice for the many serious crimes committed in Afghanistan over at least the past 25 years. And they are mostly frustrating. Shaharzad Akbar explains how she keeps the fight.
Human trafficking in Libya originating in Eritrea: a trial in the Netherlands. Photo: Eritrean women protest outside the court in Zwolle during the Walid trial. The “quite extraordinary” trial of human trafficker Walid
6 November 2025 by Margherita Capacci
Eritrean Amanuel Walid is tried in The Netherlands for leading an international criminal network that detained, tortured, raped and extorted Eritrean refugees in Libya.
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Justice for Gaza: what are the various initiatives for justice for Gaza around the world, at the national and international levels (via the ICC, the ICJ, and the UN)? Image: world map with a photo of a completely destroyed street in Gaza, seen from the sky, superimposed on it.
4 November 2025 by Golnouche K. Barzegar
Justice for Gaza: who is doing what? It's a battle outside the battlefield, and it is worrying the State of Israel. Since the start of the offensive in Gaza launched after the attack on October 7, 2023, numerous courts, both international and national have been seized for the alleged crimes committed by Israeli soldiers and senior officials.
The French company Lafarge (cement) and its executives are on trial in France. They are accused of participating in the financing of terrorist groups in Syria. Photo: aerial view of the Lafarge factory in Jalabiya, Syria.
3 November 2025 by Chloé Dubois
Lafarge faces justice for financing terrorism The Lafarge trial opens on Tuesday 4 November in Paris. The French cement manufacturer is in the dock, as a legal entity, along with eight former executives, managers and intermediaries, for financing terrorism in Syria.
The island of Bonaire is suing the Netherlands (location of the trial) for its inaction on global warming. Photo: a beach on Bonaire submerged by waves.
31 October 2025 by Margherita Capacci
Climate change: adaptation on trial, a first in Europe Bonaire is both Caribbean and European. Now, the inhabitants of this flat island threatened by rising sea levels are filing a complaint against the Netherlands, demanding to be treated like other Dutch citizens.
Satellite image of the Fordo site in Iran after it was bombed by the United States
30 October 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
When is war legally war? This new podcast from our partners of Asymmetrical Haircuts, with Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg, fellow in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Tamsin Philipa Paige, associate professor with Deakin Law School, help us consider and rethink the rights of war today.
In Syria, an armed fighter from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, allied with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, crosses a street in the Yarmouk refugee camp.
30 October 2025 by Olivier Truc
A Palestinian from Syria on trial for war crimes in Sweden Syrian trials continue in Sweden: last week, a court in Stockholm began hearing the case of a man from Yarmouk camp near Damascus, accused of participating in the repression carried out by the regime of ousted President Bashar al-Assad.
Sheikh Hasina's trial (in absentia) took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
28 October 2025 by David Bergman
Hasina? “Her crime surpasses that of every criminal on earth” At the end of a nearly three-month in absentia trial, the chief prosecutor of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal asked the judges to pronounce a death penalty on the country’s former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.
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.
27 October 2025 by Damien Scalia + Elisa Novic
Gaza: when will the “lords of war” face criminal trial? 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.
23 October 2025 by Maxim Shanahan
Victoria, still the ‘tip of the spear’ of First Nations 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.
23 October 2025 by AFP
Assad targeted by new French arrest warrant 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.
22 October 2025 by AFP
ICJ orders Israel to allow aid into Gaza 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.
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.