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Voislav Torden (Yan Petrovsky), leader of a group close to Russia, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Finland for war crimes committed in Ukraine. Photo: Torden in military uniform.
War crimes in Ukraine: a Russian sentenced to life in Finland
14 March 2025 by AFP
Voislav Torden is the first Russian citizen to be sentenced outside Ukraine for war crimes committed in that country. On Friday March 14, the leader of the Russian-affiliated paramilitary unit “Rusich Group” was sentenced to life [...]
Malian Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud is awaiting his verdict at the International Criminal Court (ICC). ICC: 10-year prison sentence for Al Hassan
20 November 2024 by AFP
On November 20, the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down its sentence on Malian jihadist Al Hassan. The former head of the Islamic police in Timbuktu in 2012 was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity las [...]
Trial in France of Eugène Rwamucyo for complicity in genocide in Rwanda - Photo: Eugène Rwamucyo at the opening of his trial in Paris Rwamucyo sentenced for complicity in genocide
30 October 2024 by AFP
Eugène Rwamucyo, a former Rwandan doctor and teacher, was sentenced to 27 years' imprisonment by a French court on October 30 for complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity. He is the eighth Rwandan to be tried in France f [...]
Al Hassan trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: ICC judges enter the courtroom where Al Hassan is charged with crimes committed in Mali. Sentencing Al Hassan, and his judges
5 September 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
The controversial and confusing judgement convicting the former head of Timbuktu’s Islamic police Al Hassan was at the heart of the debates over sentencing before the International Criminal Court on September 4. Whatever the sente [...]
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The verdict is in: Moussa Dadis Camara is sentenced to 20 years in prison, at the September 28 trial in Guinea. Photo: Dadis arrives in the courtroom on the day of his sentencing.
2 August 2024 by Matthias Raynal
Guinea: Dadis Camara convicted, trial closes leaving questions At the end of a lengthy final hearing, Guinea’s former president Moussa Dadis Camara and seven other senior officials were found guilty of the massacre of demonstrators at Conakry’s main stadium in 2009, qualified as a crime again [...]
Al-Hassan trial at the ICC - Photo: 3 judges of the International Criminal Court (Tomoko Akane, Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua and Kimberly Prost) sit in The Hague.
5 July 2024 by Lucy Gaynor
Is the ICC Al Hassan judgement a mess or the future? In their judgement against former Malian Jihadist Abdoulaziz Al-Hassan, the three judges of the International Criminal Court never fully agreed. And when two of them agreed, it wasn’t for the same reason. To many, it may look as a [...]
Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye sentenced to 25 years in prison in Belgium for his part in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Photo: Nkunduwimye during his trial.
10 June 2024 by AFP
Belgium: Nkunduwimye sentenced to 25 years in prison for genocide He helped the killers “with full knowledge of the facts”, ruled the jury in the seventh Rwandan universal jurisdiction trial to be held in Belgium. Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, brother-in-law of Interahamwe militia leader Georges Rutagan [...]
Eusebio Torres participating via video link in the reconstruction of the crimes for which he was sentenced, on February 20, to 30 years in prison, in Paraguay. Photo: Someone holds a smartphone showing a video of Eusebio Torres.
20 February 2024 by AFP
In Paraguay, a symbolic judgment on the dictatorship On February 20, 87-year-old former police officer Eusebio Torres was sentenced by the Paraguayan courts to 30 years in prison for torture committed in 1976 during the military dictatorship. Because of his age, he will not go to pr [...]
1st judgement of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic - Issa Sallet Adoum watches Mahamat Tahir, lying on the floor, weakened by a hunger strike. These are 2 of the 3 defendants on trial.
1 September 2023 by Ghislain Poissonnier
CAR: how Special Criminal Court appeal judges innovated and proposed a model The first final judgment of the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic was handed down at the end of July. It corrects the trial court judgment on several points, notably concerning the conviction of Issa Sallet Ad [...]
Ukrainian judge Volodymyr Pavlov delivers his verdict on a case of sexual violence during the war in Ukraine
10 November 2022 by Iryna Salii
First sentence for sexual violence in the Ukraine war On November 2, the Novozavodsk District Court of Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine, handed down a sentence in absentia to two Russian servicemen who were accused of abusing residents of an occupied village in Chernihiv region in Marc [...]
Drawing of Kunti Kamara during his conviction for crimes against humanity in France
3 November 2022 by Lena Bjurström
Liberian Kunti Kamara convicted in France for crimes against humanity On November 2, a French court found former Liberian rebel Kunti Kamara guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity during the civil war 30 years ago. He was also convicted of torture and aggravated acts of barbarism. The court [...]
Two detainees in orange suits stand before judges of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) during their trial in Bangui, Central African Republic. They are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1 November 2022 by Vianney Ingasso
Central African Republic: Special Criminal Court hands down first judgment On October 31, the Bangui-based Special Criminal Court issued its first verdict. It found three former members of a Central African armed group guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in 2019. One of the convict [...]
2 Syrian victims and activists demonstrate with signs outside the court in Koblenz, Germany, following the trial of Anwar Raslan
20 January 2022 by Hannah El-Hitami
Anwar Raslan's conviction: "The beginning of a wider struggle" In Koblenz, Germany, the al-Khatib trial has ended with a life sentence for main defendant Anwar Raslan. The judges found the ex-intelligence officer responsible for torture and killing in Damascus security branch 251. The defence [...]
Exterior view of the courtroom where a crowd gathered around, in the Nsumbu trial (Kasai / D.R. Congo)
18 March 2021 by Joseph Mbuyi
Judgment day in Kasai The village of Nkongolo Moshi in Kasai Central experienced a new kind of justice on March 16. A military tribunal there concluded the first war crimes trial in this province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Laurent Katende Nsu [...]