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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.

Lafarge trial in France for crimes committed in Syria, including possible ‘crimes against humanity’ which may be the subject of a second trial. Photo: a former Lafarge subcontractor in Syria shows (from a distance) the Jalabiya factory where he worked.
Lafarge: Will there be a trial for complicity in crimes against humanity?
5 December 2025 by Chloé Dubois
While Lafarge is on trial in Paris for funding terrorism, the complicity in crimes against humanity aspect of this case remains under investigation. Former Syrian employees fear they will never see justice.
Was the announcement of the withdrawal of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by the three Sahel states just an illusion? Photo: demonstration in support of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) in Burkina Faso. Sahel withdrawal from the ICC: just an illusion?
4 December 2025 by Sètondji Roland Adjovi
More than two months ago, the three members of the Sahel Alliance (AES) announced their withdrawal from the ICC. According to the author of this Opinion, this was merely a publicity stunt.
Sanna Manjang (a former Gambian jungler) was handed over by Senegal to Gambia. Photo: Manjang is handcuffed and escorted by men in military uniforms. Sanna Manjang handed over by Senegal to Gambia
3 December 2025 by AFP
Sanna Manjang, one of the leaders of the ‘Junglers’, the commandos responsible for the dirty work of Yahya Jammeh’s regime, was arrested in Senegal and handed over to Gambia, which charged him with several murders on Wednesday 3 December.
Trial of Roger Lumbala in Paris (France) for crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Photo: Lumbala is seated at a desk in 2013, next to a second person. He is signing a document. Lumbala trial: a rebel leader in Bemba’s shadow?
2 December 2025 by Claude Sengenya
The first week of witness and victim testimony in Roger Lumbala’s Paris trial looked at the facts, and at the responsibility of the former Congolese rebel leader acting under Jean-Pierre Bemba’s protection.
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Lafarge trial in Paris (France) for alleged crimes in Syria, including flow of funds to terrorist organisations. Illustration: watercolour painting depicting the courtroom, showing one person standing at the bar and another sitting next to them, wearing headphones.
1 December 2025 by Sharon Weill and the students of the Capstone Course (Sciences Po Paris)
Lafarge on Trial - Part 3: Tracing the flow of funds to terrorist groups In partnership with Justice Info, international law professor Sharon Weill and eleven students at Sciences Po Paris are providing weekly coverage of the Lafarge trial in France.
Mitiga prison in Libya
1 December 2025 by AFP
A Libyan at the ICC A Libyan suspect was transferred on Monday 2 December to the International Criminal Court by Germany, nearly fifteen years after the Security Council referred the situation to the Court to try serious crimes committed in Libya.
As the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the International Criminal Court (ICC) opens, it faces many challenges. Photo montage showing a portrait of Karim Khan, whose head has been erased, in front of the ICC offices in The Hague.
1 December 2025 by Janet H. Anderson
ICC, the “headless” court As the Annual Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC) opens today, Justice Info reviews the main challenges facing a court in mortal danger, attacked on many sides, abandoned by certain states, and lacking leadership.
Assembly of the States Parties (ASP) to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: view of an ASP from above.
28 November 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
What is going to be discussed at the ASP? Our partners and colleagues of Asymmetrical Haircuts are disclosing part of the coming up Assembly of the States parties unofficial and official agenda, with the help of their special guest, Danya Chaikel, representative of the FIDH.
Walid's trial in the Netherlands for human trafficking in Libya. Photo: African migrants sit crammed together on the floor of a detention centre in Kufra, Libya.
28 November 2025 by Margherita Capacci
Migrant smuggling: first trial concludes The trial of a migrant smuggling alleged leader concluded on Wednesday 26 November at the court of Zwolle, in the Netherlands. The Eritrean man has paved the way for another trial scheduled for spring.
Afghanistan War Commission (AWC) in the United States. Photo: A US army veteran, standing with a microphone in his hand, testifies before the commissioners.
27 November 2025 by Huma Saeed
What’s missing in the Afghanistan War Commission The Afghanistan War Commission established by the U.S. Congress has been going on for 4 years. As it embarks on its last round of hearings it must fully address the U.S. failure to provide accountability, says the author.
Starvation and war crimes in Syria: a trial in Koblenz, Germany, attempts to make the connection. Photo: Two veiled women push a wheelchair carrying a humanitarian aid package from UNRWA down a destroyed street in Damascus.
25 November 2025 by Hannah El-Hitami
Another Syrian trial in Koblenz – but different A new trial of five Syrian suspects has opened last week in Koblenz, Germany, on November 19th. It is the first to commence after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. And it is the first ever to charge starvation as a war crime.
Lafarge trial in Paris for crimes committed in Syria. Illustration: acrylic painting (watercolor) of the packed courtroom, viewed from the back. Inscriptions (in french) on the back of the benches: “defense lawyers, civil parties, press, public.”
24 November 2025 by Sharon Weill and the students of the Capstone Course (Sciences Po Paris)
Lafarge on Trial - Part 2: White-Collar Terror Trial In partnership with Justice Info, Professor of international law Sharon Weill and eleven students at Sciences Po Paris are covering the Lafarge trial daily, providing a weekly ethnography of the trial.
Wesley Clark, a former US NATO general, testifies on behalf of Hashim Thaçi during his trial before the Kosovo Special Chambers (KSC). Photo: Clark wears headphones, sitting in front of screens and microphones.
24 November 2025 by Margherita Capacci
When Wesley Clark comes to the defence Former NATO commander Wesley Clark testified in the trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity against former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi and three other former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Environmental justice, global warming, and the rights of nature - Photo: melting ice in the Arctic region.
21 November 2025 by Benjamin Bibas
The rights of nature: reason versus the industrial economy The International Tribunal for the Rights of Nature held its 6th meeting on the sidelines of COP30. This symbolic court has produced substantial case law that clashes with the realities of the industrial economy.
Christian Delage, historian and filmmaker, answers questions from Justice Info about the Nuremberg trials and the role of images in international trials, in an in-depth interview. Illustration: portrait of Delage by Benoît Peyrucq.
20 November 2025 by Clémentine Méténier
Nuremberg: “Judges were no longer seated in the centre, as the screen was placed there” Eighty years ago, on November 20, 1945, the Nuremberg trials began. French historian and filmmaker Christian Delage explains how this tribunal revolutionized how courts can use images.
Roger Lumbala's trial in Paris for crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Illustration: drawing showing Lumbala sitting behind his lawyer, who is speaking during the hearing.
18 November 2025 by Chloé Dubois
Filling the void in the Lumbala trial The trial of former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala opened in France on November 12. The accused rejects the French court’s right to try him, while his defence team has been silenced.
Creation of the Special Tribunal for Russia's crime of aggression in Ukraine. Photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset show a book. It is the agreement on the creation of the tribunal.
17 November 2025 by Oksana Rekun
Ukraine’s views on the Special Tribunal for aggression The Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, signed by the European Council, does not yet have its own building, judges or administrative staff. But it mobilizes its Ukrainian actors.
Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death in Bangladesh. Photo: portrait of Hasina.
17 November 2025 by AFP
Bangladesh: Hasina sentenced to death On November 17, Sheikh Hasina, the exiled former prime minister of Bangladesh, was sentenced to death by her country's courts for ordering the deadly crackdown on protests that led to her downfall in 2024.
In the footsteps of Roger Lumbala, on trial in France for crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Photo: Path under the trees in the heart of the equatorial forest in Ituri. People walk or ride motorcycles in a mystical, luminous atmosphere.
14 November 2025 by Claude Sengenya
“Wiping the slate meant erasing everything: our property, our people” In Mambasa, deep in Democratic Republic of Congo equatorial forest, we trace crimes that are being tried 6,000 kilometres away in Paris, in Roger Lumbala’s trial that opened on November 12.