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The empty courtroom of the International Criminal Court.
3 December 2024 by Margherita Capacci
A court without trials? The reality of today’s situation at the International Criminal Court is that while very high-profile political leaders from different parts of the world are wanted, the only individuals who are actually tried remain mid-level Afri [...]
Construction of the IPC of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
2 December 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
The clouded skies over the ICC The annual Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court takes place in The Hague from December 2-7. Against the prospect of a hostile Trump administration in the U.S., an investigation on alleged misconduct of th [...]
Legal battle for the climate before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Photo: Cyclone Pam (2015) over Vanuatu as seen from a satellite.
29 November 2024 by Golnouche K. Barzegar
The battle for the climate takes on the ICJ   The COP29 just ended in Azerbaijan with a financial agreement deemed insufficient by many participants. Now states of the Global South and environmental campaigners are pinning their hopes on the legal battle being waged before th [...]
Myanmar - International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for General Min Aung Hlaing. Photo: The Burmese Head of State standing in uniform in a vehicle during a military parade.
27 November 2024 by AFP
ICC: it's Burma's No. 1's turn After Putin and Netanyahu, it's now the head of Myanmar's military junta, Min Aung Hlaing, who is accused of crimes against humanity by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). On November 27, Karim Khan asked for [...]
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.
26 November 2024 by Chloé Dubois
Yazidi genocide trial to take place in France 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 [...]
Israel & Palestine - ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant. Photo: Palestinians walk on a dirt road lined with rubble from destroyed buildings in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City.
25 November 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
After the arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant It took 6 months for a decision to be issued. It was a tortuous process. Several dozens of states and organizations intervened in a “circus of amicus curiaes submissions over the summer,” as remembers Sergey Vasiliev, law professo [...]
JEP and Transitional Justice in Colombia. Photo: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla fighters prepare to be demobilized following the signing of the peace agreement.
25 November 2024 by Paola Molano-Ayala
Colombia: Going back to the original balance of justice There is a crucial aspect of Colombia’s transitional justice model that is worrying: the current inability of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) to offer legal security to those who participated in the conflict, including in [...]
The arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant have been confirmed. Photo: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
21 November 2024 by AFP
ICC judges confirm arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant Six months after a request from the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), on 21 November the ICC judges issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gall [...]
Trial for the recruitment of child soldiers in Colombia. Photo: Judge Lily Rueda of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) announces the indictment of former FARC leaders.
21 November 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
FARC leadership accused of war crimes over child soldiers The phenomenon of child soldiers was historically a less visible crime to Colombians than kidnapping. It is now at the centre of the second indictment by Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) against the leadership of fo [...]
Malian Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud is awaiting his verdict at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
20 November 2024 by AFP
ICC: 10-year prison sentence for Al Hassan 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 [...]
Ndélé 1 trial before the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic: the 4 defendants line up at the bar in orange prison garb.
18 November 2024 by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
Central African Republic: the end of the trial of the four rebels who “did nothing’ The second trial of the Special Criminal Court in Bangui came to an end on Thursday 14 November 2024, after the parties' closing arguments. The verdict will be announced for 13 December 2024 in the so-called “Ndélé 1” case, in whi [...]
Balakliya's ‘ordinary man’, Anatoliy Derevyanko, during his trial for collaboration in Ukraine. Photo: Balakliya stands behind the glass in the dock.
12 November 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova
The Balakliya “ordinary man” released on probation He kept hoping, but did not expect it. He came to hear the verdict without his belongings and passport: he did not think he would be released. In a rare decision in collaboration cases in Ukraine, after more than a year and a half [...]
Kabuga's money - Photo: bundles of banknotes (Rwandan francs)
7 November 2024 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Will the UN ever recover Kabuga’s money? Bogged down in its proceedings, will the UN Mechanism, the successor to the Tribunal for Rwanda set up thirty years ago, recover Félicien Kabuga’s money one day? Located in France, Belgium and Rwanda thanks to his son, the assets [...]
Military report supposedly behind the plot that led to the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Photo montage combining a portrait of Théoneste Bagosora at a hearing before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and a scan of the 1991 report of the ‘Bagosora Commission’.
5 November 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier
Justice Info publishes the report supposedly behind the genocide plot in Rwanda For 30 years, only an extract of this report had been known. And in the eyes of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), this extract formed the basis of the criminal conspiracy that led to the geno [...]
Lucy Gaynor answers Thierry Cruvellier's questions in an in-depth interview about the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Illustration: Gaynor's portrait.
4 November 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier
How the UN tribunal for Rwanda shaped the genocide narrative On November 8, 1994, less than four months after the genocide in Rwanda, the United Nations created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Over the course of almost 30 years of trials, how has this court forged its [...]
Trial of Mykola Fedorian in Ukraine for crimes of treason committed in Russian-occupied Crimea. Photo: Fedorian at his trial in Kyiv, behind the glass of the dock.
31 October 2024 by Iryna Salii
“I consider it cynical to accuse Crimeans of treason against Ukraine” Mykola Fedorian was deputy chief of the Crimean Ministry of Internal Affairs until 2011. He was working at a state-owned company when Russia annexed Crimea. He stayed, keeping his Ukrainian passport and making visits back home. Un [...]
Trial in France of Eugène Rwamucyo for complicity in genocide in Rwanda - Photo: Eugène Rwamucyo at the opening of his trial in Paris
30 October 2024 by AFP
Rwamucyo sentenced for complicity in genocide 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 [...]
Andryi Kostin, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, tendered his resignation on 22 October 2024 following a corruption scandal that has cast a shadow over the entire justice system in Ukraine. Photo: portrait of Kostin, a Ukrainian flag printed on his shoulder.
29 October 2024 by Anastasia Zubova
Ukraine: the scandal behind the resignation of the Prosecutor General The Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Andriy Kostin, tendered his resignation on October 22, in the wake of a corruption scandal that has rocked the judicial system. Dozens of prosecutors have allegedly obtained fake disability certi [...]
Complaint in Belgium over allegations of war crimes committed by foreign soldiers of the Israeli army in Gaza - Photo: an Israeli sniper seen from behind, in firing position at the top of a building.
25 October 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Crimes in Palestine: Belgian justice takes an interest in its dual nationals Belgium is investigating two cases of war crimes committed in Gaza and the West Bank, under its universal jurisdiction. The latest case is causing a stir: a Belgian-Israeli sniper is suspected of being the perpetrator or co-perpet [...]