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During the battle of Kursk, in Russia, Ukrainian soldiers were captured. Their trials, mainly for acts of ‘terrorism’, are taking place in Moscow. Photo: A Ukrainian soldier with his back to a wall, head down, is held by a hooded Russian soldier.

Russia

Kursk’s battle goes to court in Moscow

1 April 2025 by Maria Koroleva

Moscow's retaking of the Kursk region in March could deprive Ukraine of a bargaining chip in the peace talks. And according to the Justice Info tally, 67 Ukrainian soldiers captured in Kursk have been tried.

Genocide of the Yazidis - Photo: in Iraq, Yazidi women hold up placards commemorating the invasion of their region by the Islamic State (EI) group in 2014.

Iraq

Yazidi genocide trial to take place in France

26 November 2024 by Chloé Dubois

Two men and a woman, all French nationals and members of the Islamic State group, are for the first time being brought before a French court for genocide. The three are accused of taking part in the extermination of Yazidis and en [...]

Irina Navalnaya trial in Russia. Photo: Navalnaya adopts a dreamy, feminine pose behind the glass of the dock. The young Ukrainian woman is accused of terrorism.

Russia

Navalnaya’s case: how Ukrainian civilians are tried in Russia

13 May 2024 by Maria Koroleva

Irina Navalnaya, a 26-year-old Ukrainian woman, has been on trial in Russia for six months for allegedly attempting to blow up the Mariupol district administration building during the so-called referendum in the Donetsk People’s R [...]

Trials of Ukrainian fighters in Russia - A bus leaves Lefortovo prison loaded with Ukrainian prisoners of war in preparation for an exchange.

Russia

One year on, how Russia is starting to try Ukrainians

27 July 2023 by Maria Koroleva

Justice Info has calculated that at least 50 Ukrainians and foreigners have been or are being tried in Russia, Donetsk and Luhansk. War-related cases have started to abound more than a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Uk [...]

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Trial of alleged members of the Azov Battalion in Russia, at Rostov-on-Don.

Russia

24 July 2023 by Maria Koroleva

Ukraine: in Russia, alleged members of the “Azov” Battalion plead not guilty Most of the 22 prisoners of war – including 9 cooks – that Moscow considers members of the Ukrainian Azov battalion, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, July 19 during a trial in Rostov-on-Don (southern Russia). In this first, large [...]

Azov trial in Russia - The Azovstal plant in Ukraine, partially destroyed by military clashes between the Azov regiment and Russian armed forces.

Russia

6 July 2023 by Maria Koroleva

The low-level and controversial trial of the Azov regiment in Russia In June, a court in Rostov-on-Don began to consider a criminal case against 24 prisoners of war whom Russia considers members of the Ukrainian Azov regiment. It is the largest scale, war-related trial to be held in Russia to date. [...]

Pavlo Zaporozhets: a Ukrainian prisoner tried for

Ukraine

23 May 2023 by Olga Zhuravel

Inside the Russian trial of a Ukrainian accused of “international terrorism” This trial is one of the few in Russia related to the war in Ukraine. On the night of May 9, 2022, 32-year-old Pavlo Zaporozhets was detained by the Russian military in Kherson on suspicion of preparing sabotage. He is now tried f [...]

Crimes against Yazidis - Kurds demonstrate in the Netherlands in support of the Yezidis and Christians of Iraq, victims of Islamic State violence.

Iraq

22 May 2023 by Margherita Capacci

Netherlands to open first trial on crimes against Yazidis The first trial for crimes against the Yazidis is about to open in the Netherlands. The defendant, Hasna Aarab, is a 31-year-old Dutch national woman from Hengelo, a town in the East of the country. She is facing charges of slaver [...]

Drawing illustrating Arthur Denouveaux testifying on the stand during the trial of the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris. In the background, the Bataclan concert is projected on a wall above the judges and the audience. Salah Abdeslam (the main defendant) also appears in the image.

6 September 2022 by Shoshana Levy, Helin Köse and Lucille Vidal

France: Terrorist attacks trial proves an unforeseen experience of restorative justice As another extraordinary trial opens in France, that of the Nice attack involving 865 civil parties and 8 defendants, we look back at the trial on the November 13, 2015 attacks that closed in July, which turned out to be an unfore [...]

A man holds a picture of Rafiq Hariri in his hands

Lebanon

17 March 2022 by Janet H. Anderson

Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s “second best justice” On March 10 judges of the Appeals Chamber at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon reversed the earlier acquittal of two defendants. Hassan Habib Merhi and Hussein Hassan Oneissi were found guilty on charges of terrorism and murder for [...]

Landscape of the region of Deir ez-Zor in Syria

12 July 2021 by Thijs Bouwknegt

Caught killing on camera in Deir ez-Zor On July 2, Dutch prosecutors demanded a 27-year prison sentence for Ahmad Al Khedr for a single war crime and participation in a terrorist group in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. At the heart of the case is the execution of a Syrian officer, [...]