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Our reportages from the field, where justice is put into practice, both internationally and locally.

First transitional justice trial in Syria. Photo: Atef Najib (a former senior official in Bashar al-Assad’s regime), wearing a striped prison uniform and with a shaved head, stands in the dock behind bars.
“Today marks the beginning of the first transitional justice trial in Syria”
28 April 2026 by Karam Amer
On April 27 Major General Atef Najib, the former Head of a Political Security Branch under the Assad regime, appeared for the first time before his judges in Damascus. The moment felt historical, and loaded with anger and uncertainty.
Albin Havdzynskyi's works of art (paintings) were looted by the Russians in Ukraine in 2022. Photo: Havdzynskyi's painting entitled ‘The Construction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant’ showing a worker at work in the foreground and part of the plant in the background. A Ukrainian painter, the creation of Nova Kakhovka, and a looted gallery
16 February 2026 by Oksana Pidnebesna
As we approach the 4th anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we take a look at the war against cultural heritage. Russia is accused of looting art collections. A crime seen as a direct attempt to eliminate Ukrainian’s identity.
In the footsteps of Roger Lumbala, on trial in France for crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Photo: Path under the trees in the heart of the equatorial forest in Ituri. People walk or ride motorcycles in a mystical, luminous atmosphere. “Wiping the slate meant erasing everything: our property, our people”
14 November 2025 by Claude Sengenya
In Mambasa, deep in Democratic Republic of Congo equatorial forest, we trace crimes that are being tried 6,000 kilometres away in Paris, in Roger Lumbala’s trial that opened on November 12.
Monuments and art projects are being set up in memory of the victims of the war in Irpin, Ukraine. Photo: Piles of burnt-out, yellowed car wrecks. Sunflowers are painted on them. Irpin and the concept of ‘bright memory’
21 October 2025 by Anastasia Zubova
At the start of Russia’s widespread invasion of Ukraine, the violence against civilians in Bucha and Irpin made headlines. The city of Irpin is taking on the task of memorializing these events.
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Kony trial in The Hague (ICC) - Photo: 3 residents gather near the memorial to the Lukodi massacre in Uganda.
11 September 2025 by Grace Matsiko
“They think it’s Kony’s trial” “Confusing for victims”, the video screening on Joseph Kony’s case in the Ugandan city Gulu by the International Criminal Court (ICC), is reopening old wounds and memories of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Victims are still waiting for justice and compensation.
Reparations for the victims of the Church of France. Photo: A painter uses a tool to renovate a mural depicting several Catholic crosses.
5 June 2025 by Clémentine Méténier
Victims of Church abuse speak (Part 3): is money the Church’s “magic fix”? In 2021, France discovered the extent of sexual abuse in its Church. A commission reported 330,000 victims. Two reparation bodies were quickly set up. Three and a half years on, victims spoke to Justice Info about their experiences with these commissions.
Reparations for the victims of the Church of France. Photo: A painter uses a tool to renovate a mural depicting several Catholic crosses.
3 June 2025 by Clémentine Méténier
Victims of Church abuse speak (Part 2): the painful path of going to the commissions In 2021, France discovered the extent of sexual abuse in its Church. A commission reported 330,000 victims. Two reparation bodies were quickly set up. Three and a half years on, victims spoke to Justice Info about their experiences with these commissions.
Reparations for the victims of the Church of France. Photo: A painter uses a tool to renovate a mural depicting several Catholic crosses.
30 May 2025 by Clémentine Méténier
Victims of Church abuse speak (Part 1): whether or not to ask for reparation In 2021, France discovered the extent of sexual abuse in its Church. A commission reported 330,000 victims. Two reparation bodies were quickly set up. Three and a half years on, victims spoke to Justice Info about their experiences with these commissions.
Ukraine / Russia: prisoners of war and international humanitarian law. Photo: A Ukrainian prisoner bows his head in the dock during his trial in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
9 May 2025 by Lily Hyde
Ukrainian prisoners of war and the crisis of international law Ukrainian prisoners of war appear to be systematically subjected to abuse by Russia. And the International Committee of the Red Cross is powerless to stop it. This is causing bitterness and disillusion.
The Congolese people of Masuika, in Kasai Central (Democratic Republic of Congo), heard the final verdict in the trial of two former members of the Kamuina Nsapu militia, accused of war crimes committed in 2017. Photo: The crowd awaits the verdict at the place where the mobile court hearings were held, near the site of the crimes.
11 March 2025 by Joseph Mbuyi
The people of Masuika hears two verdicts The two men prosecuted for the martyrdom of a traditional chief in 2017 had their sentences reduced to 20 years in prison by the military court on March 10. The Congolese population of Masuika, in Central Kasai, was also able to a [...]
In the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the verdict is confirmed on appeal for two defendants, former Kamwina Nsapu militiamen, in a trial for war crimes. Photo: The two defendants pose under a tent set up during a mobile court hearing in the village where the crimes took place.
10 March 2025 by Joseph Mbuyi
Settling of scores in Kasai The appeal trial for the murder of Chief Mbangu in 2017 in Masuika, in the province of Central Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ended on March 7. The two defendants, sentenced to death in first instance, accused each other [...]
In Kasai (Democratic Republic of Congo), some trials are held in mobile courts, in the heart of the villages, as close as possible to the crimes and the victims. Photo: Protected witnesses are covered from head to toe during a trial for war crimes committed by members of the Kamwina Nsapu militia.
6 March 2025 by Joseph Mbuyi
In Kasai, justice on the ground and under protection After several postponements, the appeal trial of two men sentenced to death for war crimes committed in the Congolese region of Kasai opened in the town of Masuika on March 3. The entire court traveled to the crime site. To hear t [...]
In villages in North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), survivors of attacks by Ugandan soldiers are waiting to receive reparations. Photo: Three survivors of massacres (seen from behind) in front of a mass grave (not shown) where their relatives are buried.
10 December 2024 by Claude Sengenya
DRC: with the forgotten people of North Kivu In North Kivu, the inhabitants of the villages of Maboya-Loya and Kikere have not yet seen a penny of the millions of dollars in reparations paid to Congo by Uganda for the violence perpetrated by Ugandan soldiers a quarter of a c [...]
Victim of militias in 2003 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ruth Biangire was able to benefit from the help of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: Ruth Biangire poses in her store, where she sells petrol in cans and bottles.
9 September 2024 by Claude Sengenya
ICC/DRC: Reparations leave victims feeling sore (2/2) After the village of Bogoro, in the Ituri region of north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, our correspondent went to Bunia to interview other beneficiaries of the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims. These a [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) reparations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: Farmer Kiza Nzungu Bwanafasi with his cows in Ituri province (DRC).
6 September 2024 by Claude Sengenya
ICC/DRC: Reparations leave Bogoro victims feeling sore (1/2) On April 24, the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims announced the closure of part of its reparations programme in the Ituri region, northeast Democratic Republic of Congo. Our correspondent travelled to Bogoro, [...]
Reintegration and reconciliation of a former ‘genocidaire’ in Rwanda - Photo: Hamenyimana poses in his field in the village of Remera.
10 June 2024 by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Pascal Hamenyimana and the timid reintegration of a former “génocidaire” Back in his village after serving a 15-year prison sentence for complicity in genocide, ex-convict Pascal Hamenyimana is gradually returning to a normal life, thanks to the welcome, the moral and financial support of several survi [...]
In memory of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, 30 years on. Photo: At the end of the commemorations, an elder leaves the Mayunzwe memorial and walks down the hill towards the village.
9 April 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier
Mayunzwe remembers the "Calvary" of the Tutsis On April 7, all Rwandans commemorated 30 years since the 1994 genocide. While an official ceremony was held in the capital Kigali, gatherings were also organized on hillsides across the country. In Mayunzwe, central Rwanda, villag [...]
Nika Jeiranashvili tells how he went from international justice expert to wine expert in Georgia
25 March 2024 by Franck Petit
Nika, the Georgian international justice repentant There are many who have been disappointed by international justice, but few who speak so frankly and draw such clear-cut conclusions. Nika Jeiranashvili was the face of Georgian civil society, in The Hague, during the Internationa [...]
Mevloud Kharazishvili, victim of the war in Georgia and beneficiary of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Trust Fund for Victims assistance programme. Photo: Kharazishvili shows the pasture where he was kidnapped by Russian soldiers.
21 March 2024 by Franck Petit
Georgia: ICC Trust Fund for Victims struggles with reality The central Georgian town of Gori is known as the birthplace of Stalin, whose statue long stood before the town hall and was only removed after the Russia-Georgia war of August 2008. For almost a year now, Gori has been the site o [...]
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