Search
Advanced search

National tribunals

From left to right, Aboubacar Diakité, known as
4 min 19

Guinea massacre trial enters the final stretch

The “confrontation” phase began on April 15 in Guinea’s important trial on the 2009 massacre in Conakry stadium. Defendants, victims and witnesses are taking the stand once again, but only on specific points. Dozens of people are to be heard. Divisions between the accused are becoming clearer, and some witnesses are worried about their safety. […]
By Matthias Raynal (our correspondent in Conakry)
Read more
Major Gustavo Soto Bracamonte and Colonel Gabriel de Jesús Rincón, both indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity, plant a black sage sapling at the launch of the environmental restorative pilot project near Bogotá, Colombia.

Colombia’s JEP unveils alternative sanctions but remains silent on punishment

Prisoners detained in Rwanda for genocide (known as

Rwanda: 2,200 “génocidaires” being released in 2024, who are they?

At the 28 September trial in Guinea, will the Conakry stadium massacre be requalified as a crime against humanity? Photo: A participant in the political meeting climbs over a barrier at the stadium (which was crowded) on 28 September 2009.

Guinea: was the stadium massacre a crime against humanity?

Collaboration trial in Ukraine - Video of Oleksandr Kharchenko, one of the defendants.

Chronicle of a tandem collaboration in a village near Kyiv

Trial of a Ukrainian in Russia: Anton Cherednik, in Rostov-on-Don.

Russia: 30 times fewer Ukrainians sentenced than in the occupied territories

In Colombia, how will the JEP apply its commitments on sanctions? Photo: FARC officials at the signing of part of the peace agreement in December 2015 in Cuba.

Sanctions in Colombia’s justice process: How to get it right

A senior jurist from the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) listens to a victim in Colombia.

The original internal sin of Colombia’s JEP

The story of how a Ukrainian drone helped a woman escape a war crime - Photo: Valeriya Bohomaz walks along a country road (aerial photo taken from the drone guiding her).

The Ukrainian drone that said “follow me”

War in Ukraine and justice - Photo: Ukrainian tanks stuck in the mud near the front line.

"Stalemate in the Ukraine war translates into a justice stalemate"

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.

In Paraguay, a symbolic judgment on the dictatorship

Prosecutor interrogates witnesses at the hearing held by the Kominternivskiy District Court of Kharkiv (Ukraine).

An "ordinary man", a grain storage and the Russian occupiers

In Guinea, the collective of lawyers for the victims of September 28 are concerned about the desertion of witnesses in the face of threats to their safety.

Guinea: frightened witnesses desert the trial

Russian trial in Donetsk: 33 Ukrainian prisoners of war sentenced.

More than 200 Ukrainians tried in the occupied territories

Report from Thomas Kwoyelo's birthplace in Uganda, with his family. Photo: Kwoyelo's relatives in front of the house where he lived as a child.

“Kwoyelo was born and grew up here”

Thomas Kwoyelo's trial in Uganda - He appears on video on television during a hearing he is unable to attend.

Uganda: apologies but still no trial for ex-LRA Kwoyelo

3 years after the coup in Myanmar: what justice? Photo: soldiers stand guard on a blockaded road to parliament (February 1, 2021).

Three years after the coup, hopes of justice for Myanmar?

Dr Hassane Bah (forensic pathologist) describes the horror of the massacre in Conakry in 2009, during the

View from hospital and morgue during Guinea’s stadium massacre

Desi Bouterse, former president of Suriname

Convicting presidents: the Suriname case