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In a street whose buildings are completely devastated (Yarmouk district in Damascus, Syria), a distribution of food aid is organized for many refugees

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 Patrick Kroker, from the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) represents […]

By Hannah El-Hitami

Colonel aviator Peter Tankink and Dutch Defense Minister Ank Bijleveld hold a press conference in The Hague on November 2019, about the deadly attack by a Dutch F-16 on Hawija, Iraq, in 2015.

Hawija: from remote warfare to distant justice

Is there a right methodology to document war crimes in Myanmar, Syria, Iraq or Ukraine?

A soldier of the Syrian government army points his weapon at a large hole whose bottom is not visible

What the Alleged Arrest of Tadamon Perpetrator Tells Us About the Syrian Regime Model of Transitional Justice

General Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi speaks at a microphone

France: Interpol president suspected of torture

A man holds a picture of Rafiq Hariri in his hands

Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s “second best justice”

Palestinian child standing in front of a gate without walls around it, in the middle of the ruins

Here is a way for international law to better help end conflicts (1/3)

Portrait of Lokman Slim

In Lebanon, the Lokman Slim Foundation will keep the memory of political assassinations

A doctor holds a bloodstained open book in a hospital

Germany: When Syrian doctors became part of Assad’s terror

2 Syrian victims and activists demonstrate with signs outside the court in Koblenz, Germany, following the trial of Anwar Raslan

Anwar Raslan's conviction: "The beginning of a wider struggle"

Iraj Mesdaghi displays documents on a table

Sweden-Iran: Noury faces death row survivors

Anwar Raslan in the dock in Koblenz (Al-Khatib trial), Germany

Syria: Anwar Raslan gets life sentence for crimes against humanity

Anwar Raslan during his trial in Koblenz, Germany

Defence: “Raslan did whatever he could to help”

Syrian Colonel Anwar Raslan handcuffed during his trial in Koblenz (Germany)

Prosecution: "Raslan was either powerless, or he wasn’t"

A woman and young Yezidi refugee girls

Germany: First conviction for genocide against the Yazidi

Anwar Raslan in the dock in Koblenz (Al-Khatib trial), Germany

Syrian torture trial in Germany: “Raslan was scared”

Kazem Rajavi

Why Switzerland is relaunching an Iranian cold case for "genocide"

The Lebanon Tribunal’s back from the dead – for a moment

Activist in front of thousands of photos of victims of the 1988 massacres in Iran

Why the trial of an Iranian in Sweden is a "big deal"