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.
Kabuga trial: for Rwandans, "the old man is still hiding”
28 February 2023
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
"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
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
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
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 [...]
20 February 2023
by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian war crime trial in Berlin: a late alibi for defense
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
Human trafficking in Libya: the ICC promises, national courts act
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
Syria: Berlin prosecutors urge life sentence in war crimes trial
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
Ukraine: was a former KGB officer helping the enemy or picking mushrooms?
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 [...]