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Guantánamo’s “legal black hole” remains US headache
By Julia Crawford
As the United States marks 250 years of independence, and more than 24 years after the Guantánamo Bay US military prison in Cuba was opened, 15 detainees remain there.
Guantanamo: a thorn in the side of the United States. The infamous US prison is regularly criticised for its illegal detentions and the torture practised there. Photo: an American flag flies in the sky, behind the prison’s barbed wire.
Wassim Al-Assad was arrested in Syria. Photo: Al-Assad poses in front of a measuring ladder, wearing a prison uniform (yellow and black stripes). Syria: First Assad in the Cage
By Karam Amer
Last week in Damascus, the trial of Wassim Assad kicked off on Wednesday June 24, just after a third hearing in the Atef Najib case, and just before the opening of another trial against the former Grand Mufti of Syria.
The multinational Total Energies was found liable in France in a “climate justice” lawsuit. However, the impact on consumers has been virtually nonexistent so far during the 2026 oil crisis, as Total has guaranteed price caps. Photo: A line of cars waits in front of the pumps at a Total gas station. Courts Are Doing Their Part on Climate, but Is Anyone Else?
By Maud Sarliève
On 25 June 2026, a Paris court ruled that Total Energies must account for the emissions produced when its clients burn its oil and gas. The question is whether legislators will also do their part for the climate.
In Ukraine, the Chernobyl nuclear power station was attacked and damaged by a Russian drone strike. An overview of the situation and a focus on international law in such circumstances. Photo: our correspondent in Ukraine poses, wearing safety gear, beneath the concrete arch. Inside Chernobyl after a drone attack: what can international law do?
By Oksana Rekun
On February 14, 2025, a Russian drone struck Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, near the fourth reactor destroyed in 1986. What’s nuclear safety in wartime? Journalist Oksana Rekun went to Chernobyl and asked.
AI and law How courts deal with deepfakes and AI?
By Asymmetrical Haircuts
Whilst the challenges faced by judges when dealing with visual evidence are becoming more complex, but « it’s not a new phenomenon, manipulation has always been around », says professor Yvonne McDermott Rees. She discusses this hot topic in this new Asymmetrical Haircut podcast with Anne Hausknecht, a Law PhD candidate who works with the TRUE project.
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“Living with US sanctions means living in constant uncertainty” A total of 11 judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the US government. Some have come public about how it's deeply affected their daily life. And it’s unclear what protection they may enjoy.
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Illustration showing a concrete mixer truck (with the Lafarge logo printed on it) stopped at a checkpoint manned by several figures dressed in black, armed and wearing balaclavas. A long arm extends from the truck, holding a suitcase filled with banknotes bearing the image of Bashar al-Assad. On the side is an ISIS flag. War and business: Lafarge in the dock
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At the Lundin trial in Sweden, two former executives of the oil company are on trial for alleged complicity in war crimes committed in Sudan. Illustration: Ian Lundin and Alexandre Schneiter are drowned in a pool of oil. Conflict rages in the background. War and oil: Lundin in the dock
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“Ukraine has done itself and international law a service”
23 February 2026 by Franck Petit
After four years of war in Ukraine and a year since Donald Trump returned to power, international law seems more threatened than ever, and its role in peace negotiations is being challenged. But the example of Ukraine, which is establishing a “regional” tribunal for the crime of aggression created by the Council of Europe, shows us “a space for the extension and survival of international law even at the worst moment of its crisis,” according to Frédéric Mégret.
Justice for Syria: what are the various initiatives for justice for Syria around the world, at the national level (in Syria or elsewhere, under universal jurisdiction) or at the international level (via the ICJ and UN bodies)? Image: world map with a photo of Sednaya prison (Syria) seen from the air and a portrait of Bashar al-Assad superimposed on it.
Justice for Syria: who is doing what?
8 December 2025 by Hannah El-Hitami
One year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, on 7 December 2024, the landscape of justice for grave violations of international law in Syria has transformed. Some transitional justice institutions have been established in Syria. And there have never been so many active Syrian cases under universal jurisdiction. 
Justice for Gaza: what are the various initiatives for justice for Gaza around the world, at the national and international levels (via the ICC, the ICJ, and the UN)? Image: world map with a photo of a completely destroyed street in Gaza, seen from the sky, superimposed on it.
Justice for Gaza: who is doing what?
4 November 2025 by Golnouche K. Barzegar
It’s a battle outside the battlefield, and it is worrying the State of Israel: in January 2025, the Israeli army warned its soldiers about possible arrests when they travel abroad. Since the start of the offensive in Gaza launched after the attack on October 7, 2023, two international courts have been seized: the International Criminal Court, which has issued arrest warrants, and the International Court of Justice, whose decisions have been supported by resolutions of the UN General Assembly. At the same time, the Human Rights Council has set up a commission, which has concluded that a “genocide” is taking place. Finally, complaints have been filed in dozens of national courts, and universal jurisdiction proceedings have been opened around the world.
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.
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