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.
Ukraine: why states are storming the ICJ
28 October 2022
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Never before have so many states applied to be third parties to a dispute before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). To date, 22 states have applied to intervene in the case between Ukraine and Russia over allegations of gen [...]
28 October 2022
by AFP
On October 28, the Director of Public Prosecutions in Kenya announced the indictment of several police officers for crimes against humanity. Some of them are also charged for command responsibility. This is a double first in that [...]
28 October 2022
by Julia Crawford
After an oral update to the UN Human Rights Council last month, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry recently submitted its first report to the UN General Assembly. It has pointed to war crimes by Russian forces in [...]
27 October 2022
by Artur Chemyrys
How a woman from Cherkasy, in Central Ukraine, got 10 years in prison for treason. Her posts supporting Russia’s invasion on a banned social network attracted the attention of the country’s security services. After a search at her [...]
25 October 2022
by Christine Chaumeau
Cambodian villagers challenge sugar giant in Thai court
Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol, accused of forced displacement, property destruction and land grabbing, is being sued by Cambodian villagers in a class action suit before the Thai courts. This is a David and Goliath battle that is als [...]
24 October 2022
by Lena Bjurström
Liberian case in France: "too complicated to be tried by whites"
Since October 10, former Liberian militiaman Kunti Kamara has been on trial in France for complicity in crimes against humanity. His trial mirrors the one held in Switzerland against a senior officer, Alieu Kosiah, convicted in Ju [...]
21 October 2022
by Hannah El-Hitami
Gambian trial in Germany: I posed as a “Jungler”, defendant says
On Thursday 20 October, Baboucar “Bai” Lowe has given his first statement in six month of trial in Germany. The Gambian national, an alleged member of a notorious killing squad called the “Junglers” accused of crimes against human [...]
20 October 2022
by Lilia Kocherga
Ukraine: Trial of an ordinary citizen betrayed by his phone
A 48-year-old Ukrainian, Roman Shmarev, exchanged maps with his daughter on his phone showing the location of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Is this a crime? It is in wartime, according to security services who tracked him down and p [...]
18 October 2022
by Caleb Kazadi and Grace Matsiko
What will Congo do with the millions paid by Uganda in reparation?
In September, Uganda paid 65 million dollars to the Democratic Republic of Congo as the first tranche of reparations for its aggression during the 1998-2003 war, pursuant to a ruling by the International Court of Justice. This is [...]
17 October 2022
by Matthias Raynal
Defendants take the stand first at Conakry trial
In Guinea, the floor was given first to the defendants in the trial of the September 28 massacre. At the start of hearings on the substance, the first role went to Moussa Tiégboro Camara and the second to Marcel Guilavogui, respec [...]
14 October 2022
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Is there a right methodology to document war crimes in Myanmar, Syria, Iraq or Ukraine?
“Don’t over document” warned the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan in a recent meeting held in The Hague with Eurojust, in an address to civil society organizations, referring to situations in Myanmar, Syria [...]
14 October 2022
by Franck Petit
Chad’s president promises to compensate Habré victims
A glimmer of hope for the victims of former president Hissène Habré is being rekindled by the transition in Chad, where Idriss Déby Junior was reappointed president on October 10. Seeking to do what his father failed to do, Déby h [...]
13 October 2022
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: artists take up the torch of remembrance
Three recent artistic creations are breaking the silence about Tunisia’s repressive past that has fallen since the Truth and Dignity Commission ended its work three years ago. By working on remembrance, artists are taking up the t [...]
11 October 2022
by Julia Crawford
UN points to Russian crimes and Ukraine justice challenges
Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine has led to a litany of serious abuses against both civilians and combatants, mostly by the Russian side, confirms a recent report based on the findings of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in U [...]
10 October 2022
by AFP
First trial in France on the crimes of Liberia's civil wars
While in Liberia no trial has taken place for the crimes of the civil wars that left at least 250,000 people dead, France is today opening the trial of a field commander, Kunti Kamara. He was fighting in the ranks of an armed grou [...]
7 October 2022
by Iryna Salii
How a rape trial against Russian soldiers is shaping up in Chernihiv
The two Russian soldiers left a phone number behind, but have not answered calls from the court handling their case for having terrorised a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl and her family. While Ukraine’s Prosecutor General is working o [...]
6 October 2022
by Maud Sarliève
Armenia/Azerbaijan: What alternative to the law of the strongest?
In mid-September, hostilities resumed briefly between Armenia and Azerbaijan, two years after the deadly conflict of 2020. The Russian peace broker, in trouble in Ukraine, is weakened. And the law of the strongest is taking over t [...]
4 October 2022
by Molly Quell
Waiting for witnesses at Kabuga’s trial
Nearly 30 years after some 800,000 civilians were murdered in an attempt to eradicate the Tutsi ethnic minority in Rwanda, the man accused of funding weapons purchases and backing a radio station that spewed genocidal propaganda i [...]
3 October 2022
by Matthias Raynal
"We are Guineans and we will judge Guineans”
In Guinea’s capital Conakry, the trial of the September 28, 2009 massacre started symbolically thirteen years after the crime, with a grand opening and a three-hour hearing. This is an exceptional judicial event for Guinea, with a [...]