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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.

Victims waiting for reparations in the trial at the Special Criminal Court (CPS) in the Central African Republic
Central African Republic: Special Court Faces Reparations Issue
2 February 2023 by Jean-Fernand Koena
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 Brazil: Can Lula and an NGO appeal to the ICC push justice for crimes in the Amazon?
31 January 2023 by Julia Crawford
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) The U.S. new priorities in international justice
30 January 2023 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
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 Ukraine: how collaborators are being tried in the Dnipropetrovsk region
30 January 2023 by Olga Zhuravel
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Transitional justice - Tunisia Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) files
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 [...]
4 Russian soldiers in uniform sit in the dock during their torture trial in Ukraine.
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 [...]
The accused Moussa Dadis Camara faces (from behind) the judges during the September 28 trial in Guinea (Conakry).
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 [...]
Belgian Colonial Past - Black and white photo in which King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola of Belgium are sitting on armchairs carried by Congolese in traditional dress.
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 [...]
On the stage of the Grand Café Utopie in The Hague (Netherlands), Thierry Cruvellier, Iryna Salli, Anna Mykytenko, Janet H. Anderson and a translator are debating about
17 January 2023 by Justice Info
"Ukraine: Justice in times of war": the full video of our debate in The Hague On December 6th, Justice Info organised a debate on justice in Ukraine, as a side event of the Assembly of States parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Entitled "Ukraine: Justice in times of war", the event gave voice [...]
Michel Landry Luanga, President of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic, delivers a speech during the inauguration of its premises in Bangui in 2020.
17 January 2023 by Franck Petit
Central African Republic: Special Court "in the starting block" (2/2) After completing its first trial in seven years, the Special Criminal Court (SCC), whose mandate has just been renewed, is confident that it can speed up its work. Here are the details of two cases, among the 19 under investigatio [...]
On the desk of the president of the Special Criminal Court (CPS) in the Central African Republic, two piles of multicolored files.
16 January 2023 by Franck Petit
Central African Republic: Special Court "in the starting block" (1/2) The Special Criminal Court (SCC)’s mandate was renewed on December 28 by the parliament of the Central African Republic for five years, despite its meagre results. Since its creation in 2015, this UN-backed hybrid court has conduc [...]
Demonstration of Palestinian children holding up signs that read
13 January 2023 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The occupation of Palestine back before the ICJ, why?  On New Year's Eve, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution seeking a new opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories. The resolution, adop [...]
A man (Domingo Navarro) speaks into a microphone during a hearing of the Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP) in Colombia.
12 January 2023 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
How Colombia’s JEP earns the respect of sceptical victims In a country where many, especially in the political arena, still tend to see Colombian society as divided in two almost irreconcilable and immovable halves, the very personal processes - away from the public spotlight - of victim [...]
A man walks in front of works of art exhibited at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
10 January 2023 by Marjolein van Pagee
Colonial racism catches up with Amsterdam Rijksmuseum The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam was sued by Indonesians for using the racist term bersiap in a recent exhibition. It is through court cases that Indonesian rights activists have changed the debate over the Dutch colonial past and exp [...]
In a street whose buildings are completely devastated (Yarmouk district in Damascus, Syria), a distribution of food aid is organized for many refugees
9 January 2023 by Hannah El-Hitami
Patrick Kroker: “They saw injuries nobody could have survived” In Berlin, a former militia member from Syria is accused of war crimes for firing a grenade into a group of civilians in Damascus in 2014. The trial is the third in Germany to prosecute crimes of the Bashar al-Assad regime. Lawyer [...]
A man is standing on a stage with a large Serbian flag in the background. He is holding a small flag of the European Union.
6 January 2023 by Massimo Moratti
Is war crimes prosecution in Serbia just “ticking boxes”? The prosecution of war crimes in Serbia for the conflicts of the 1990s mirrors the political developments of Serbian society in the last 10 years. The strategy designed in 2016 was considered a necessary step towards the country’s [...]
Toussaint Muntazini poses at his office at the Special Criminal Court (SPC) in the Central African Republic.
5 January 2023 by Franck Petit
Toussaint Muntazini: "If they extend the Special Court mandate, they expect added value" The Central African Republic parliament on December 28 renewed the mandate of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) for five years. After a highly publicized arrival at Bangui airport on May 25, 2017, its Congolese prosecutor Toussaint [...]