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.
Universal Jurisdiction: movement to end the French exception?
12 June 2023
by Simon Foreman
In France, the Court of Cassation lifted two major constraints on universal jurisdiction on May 12. At the end of May, however, during negotiations on an international cooperation treaty in Ljubjana, Paris showed its concern to pr [...]
9 June 2023
by Maxim Shanahan
It's 'just' a civil defamation case, but it has caused thunder in Australia. Soldier Ben Roberts-Smith lost the case against the media accusing him of war crimes in Afghanistan, and to establish this the media had to present evide [...]
8 June 2023
by Thierry Cruvellier
According to his judges, Félicien Kabuga can be tried but not convicted. On June 6, a UN tribunal ruled that the Rwandan, aged 88 (or 90, according to him), is no longer fit to stand trial. But instead of suspending the case, the [...]
6 June 2023
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Fulgence Kayishema’s arrest on May 24 in South Africa comes 29 years after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It’s expected he will be the fourth fugitive from the former UN tribunal for Rwanda to be sent back to his country for trial. [...]
5 June 2023
by Antoine Harari in Bellinzona (Switzerland)
Appeals court convicts Liberian Alieu Kosiah of crimes against humanity
A Swiss appeals court on June 1 confirmed a 20-year prison sentence for Alieu Kosiah, former commander of an armed group in Liberia in the 1990s. Kosiah was already the first person convicted of war crimes by a Swiss civil court. [...]
2 June 2023
by Molly Quell
After 30 years, the UN court’s last verdict on former Yugoslavia
It took a record 20 years for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia – created in May 1993 and later replaced by “the Mechanism” – to complete the trial of two former Serbian spy masters. Arrested in 2003 [...]
1 June 2023
by Mariam Sankanu
Is The Gambia a step closer to moving on with trials and reparations?
On May 12, the Gambian president Adama Barrow has issued an implementation plan of the 2021 recommendations of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission. He has announced a 9-million euro pledge by the European Union. A [...]
30 May 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Vanuatu brings climate justice to the ICJ
On March 29 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on climate change. The resolution was championed by the small Pacific Island nation [...]
30 May 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Conakry’s groundbreaking trial threatened by financial issues
In Guinea, eight months after the start of a historic trial, some lawyers - for both the defence and the victims - have never been paid. On 29 May, they went on strike. They are demanding legal aid, which the government refuses to [...]
26 May 2023
by Lena Bjurström
Controversial priest dodges in Hategekimana trial
Rwandan priest Hormisdas Nsengimana was heard on 22 May at the trial of former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana. Accused himself of genocide and crimes against humanity, the cleric was acquitted in 2009 by the UN tribunal fo [...]
25 May 2023
by Lena Bjurström
Hategekimana trial: former Rwandan soldiers have memory gaps
Since May 10, former colleagues and superiors of Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana (or Philippe Manier) have testified in his trial. Between accusations, personal grudges and cautious recollections, these soldiers have not sh [...]
23 May 2023
by Olga Zhuravel
Inside the Russian trial of a Ukrainian accused of “international terrorism”
This trial is one of the few in Russia related to the war in Ukraine. On the night of May 9, 2022, 32-year-old Pavlo Zaporozhets was detained by the Russian military in Kherson on suspicion of preparing sabotage. He is now tried f [...]
22 May 2023
by Margherita Capacci
Netherlands to open first trial on crimes against Yazidis
The first trial for crimes against the Yazidis is about to open in the Netherlands. The defendant, Hasna Aarab, is a 31-year-old Dutch national woman from Hengelo, a town in the East of the country. She is facing charges of slaver [...]
19 May 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Conakry trial: torture and arbitrary detention in military camps
At the September 28 massacre trial, it was the turn of victims of arbitrary detention and torture to speak out. One of them, Yagouba Barry, recounted on Tuesday May 16 how he was sequestered at the personal home of one of the defe [...]
18 May 2023
by Olga Zhuravel
Domansky, a lawyer of “principle” in time of war
Before the war, he acted for defendants in high-profile trials – related to a bank robbery, to the Revolution of Dignity - or even represented Joseph Stalin’s interests in an ongoing case on the Crimean Tatars’ deportation. Today, [...]
16 May 2023
by Maxim Shanahan
Yoorrook Commission: “It takes the death of an Aboriginal” to reform laws
In the fortnight to Monday May 15, senior representatives of law, prisons and police institutions appeared before the Yoorrook Justice Commission, to face questioning over their responsibility in perpetuating the systemic injustic [...]
15 May 2023
by Vito Ruggiero and Francesca Lessa
Operation Condor: what to expect from the second trial in Rome
The authors, who are following this second trial linked to "Operation Condor" which opened this year in Rome, explore the reasons why the Italian justice system decided to try a former Uruguayan military officer, Jorge Néstor Troc [...]
12 May 2023
by Lena Bjurström
Genocide in Rwanda: the multiple lives of a gendarmerie officer on trial in Paris
This is the fifth Rwandan universal jurisdiction trial to open in France. Philippe Hategekimana, former chief warrant officer of the Nyanza gendarmerie in southern Rwanda, has been on trial since May 10 before the Paris Court of A [...]