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.
Syrian war crime trial in Berlin: a late alibi for defense
20 February 2023
by Hannah El-Hitami
Last Thursday, 16 February, in Berlin, Germany, Palestinian Syrian militiaman Moafak D.’s defense gave their final statements and called for his acquittal. They argued their client had been injured and bedridden at the time of the [...]
17 February 2023
by Margherita Capacci
The trials of two Eritrean men arrested last fall and charged with crimes linked to human trafficking in Libya have started early 2023 in the Netherlands and is about to start in Italy. They are the result of strong cooperation be [...]
14 February 2023
by Hannah El-Hitami
In a German court, a former militiaman from Syria is accused of firing a grenade into a crowd of civilians gathered to collect food, in March 2014. The attack took place during a Bashar al-Assad regime’s months-long siege of the P [...]
13 February 2023
by Kateryna Trokhymchuk
The March 2022 Russian missile attack on a Ukrainian military training facility in Yavoriv, Western Ukraine, left more than 60 Ukrainians and foreigners dead, and 160 wounded. A court in Lviv is now trying a Ukrainian former KGB o [...]
10 February 2023
by Janet H. Anderson
Lobbying the ICC: the experience of a German NGO (2/2)
A growing way for civil society organisations to lobby the International Criminal Court is to file « communications” to the Office of the Prosecutor. The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), a NGO based in [...]
9 February 2023
by Janet H Anderson
Lobbying the ICC: how successful are NGOs in influencing the Prosecutor? (1/2)
Year in year out the International Criminal Court (ICC) receives thousands of “communications”, mostly from NGOs, detailing alleged crimes that these organisations wish the Office of the Prosecutor to investigate. Only five - a ti [...]
7 February 2023
by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
Central African Republic: Truth Commission struggles to get off the ground
The Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission presented its activity report to the Central African Republic’s President on December 30, 2022, more than 18 months after it was launched. But the brief account of its a [...]
6 February 2023
by Julia Crawford
Israel-Palestine conflict: What difference could an ICJ ruling make?
In late December, the United Nations General Assembly voted to ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for an advisory opinion on the legality of Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestine. This followed a recommendation from [...]
3 February 2023
by Maxim Shanahan
Continued violence of colonisation exposed before Australia’s Yoorrook Commission
At the national level, Australia has struggled to hold a truth, reconciliation and reparations process on the violence committed against Indigenous peoples. The state of Victoria, in South-East Australia, wants to reverse this cou [...]
2 February 2023
by Jean-Fernand Koena
Central African Republic: Special Court Faces Reparations Issue
On February 2, the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in Bangui is scheduled to hear claims for reparations in the first trial concluded by this UN-backed hybrid court. But legal, procedural, and financial obstacles remain.
31 January 2023
by Julia Crawford
Brazil: Can Lula and an NGO appeal to the ICC push justice for crimes in the Amazon?
Brazil’s new president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he wants to make tackling environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the Amazon a priority. An NGO "Communication" to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in la [...]
30 January 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The U.S. new priorities in international justice
Beth van Schaack is the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice and she is the guest of Asymmetrical Haircuts, our podcast partner. She describes the US new commitment towards the International Criminal Court [...]
30 January 2023
by Olga Zhuravel
Ukraine: how collaborators are being tried in the Dnipropetrovsk region
On March 15, 2022, soon after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian legislators added Article 111-1 "Collaboration Activities" to the country’s Criminal Code. Since then, the prosecution of alleged traitor-collaborators has been [...]
27 January 2023
by Thierry Cruvellier
Massaquoi case: Finnish court of appeal arrives in Liberia
Finnish judges, prosecutors and lawyers are expected to arrive in the Liberian capital on 31 January. They are to stay for two months for the appeal trial of the former Sierra Leonean rebel commander, Gibril Massaquoi. Massaquoi w [...]
26 January 2023
by Julia Crawford
Trying Russian leaders in absentia: What would be the pros and cons?
Even if, as some are advocating, an international tribunal were set up to try the Russian crime of aggression in Ukraine, it would probably not get President Vladimir Putin and his top aides in custody any time soon, or ever. This [...]
24 January 2023
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: Will hope for transitional justice come from Kef?
Closing arguments are announced for January 27 in a trial before a specialized chamber in Kef, northwest Tunisia. The victims are pinning their hopes on this. Given the slowness, obstacles suffered by the judges and the weakness o [...]
23 January 2023
by Iryna Salii
Ukraine: Four Russian soldiers convicted for torture
Justice Info reports on the latest trial of Russian soldiers held at the end of the year in Kotelva, eastern Ukraine. The four men, members of a Russian army special forces unit, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 11 years in pr [...]
20 January 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Guinea massacre trial: the "Dadis Show" fails to happen
The entire country was eagerly awaiting the appearance of its former head of state, the main defendant in the trial concerning the September 28, 2009 massacre at Conakry stadium in Guinea. But Moussa Dadis Camara finally delivered [...]
19 January 2023
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgian colonial past: Commission fails on apology to victims
The commission on Belgium's colonial past was a pioneer in Europe, but it collapsed at the finish line at the end of December, stripped of all its well formulated recommendations. After two and a half years of looking into the pas [...]