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Syrian trial for war crimes in Germany
Syrian trial in Berlin: life imprisonment for a militiaman
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 [...]
Frédéric Mégret Frédéric Mégret: "Justice for Ukraine depends on the outcome of the fighting”
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 [...]
Pjetër Shala's initial appearance befor the Kosovo Specialis Chambers (KSC) In The Hague, on 19 April, 2021. Trial of ex-KLA member Pjetër Shala starts in The Hague
21 February 2023 by Molly Quell
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 [...]
Activists of the How the eight « stateless » of the ICTR live in Niger
21 February 2023 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
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 [...]
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Court in Berlin where Moafak D is tried for war crimes in Syria.
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 [...]
Migrants in a detention center in Libya
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 [...]
Yarmouk camp in Damascus (Syria)
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 [...]
Ukraine - Oleksandr Kostornyi trial (former KGB) for high treason
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 [...]
Image symbolizing a communication filed by an NGO to the ICC (2/2)
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 [...]
Image symbolizing a communication filed by an NGO to the ICC
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 [...]
Women whose relatives have been victims of violence in the Central African Republic
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 [...]
Israeli soldiers patrol in occupied territory (West Bank / Palestine)
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 [...]
Eleanor A. Bourke, Chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission in Australia.
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 [...]
Victims waiting for reparations in the trial at the Special Criminal Court (CPS) in the Central African Republic
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.
Justice in Amazonia - Indigenous inhabitant of the Amazonian forest, in Brazil, in traditional dress
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 [...]
Beth van Schaack (United States - US)
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 [...]
In Ukraine, many trials for collaboration and high treason in wartime
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 [...]
Gibril Massaquoi: Finnish trial on appeal in Liberia
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 [...]
Empty defendant's box in a trial
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 [...]