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Kabila: a trial to intimidate
By Caleb Kazadi
Ithiel Batumike, a jurist at Congolese political research institute Ebuteli, answers Justice Info’s questions after the High Military Court in Kinshasa on September 30 handed down a death sentence on Joseph Kabila.
Joseph Kabila, former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was sentenced to death on 30 September. Photo: Kabila is seated in an armchair on a raised terrace. He faces several people with his hands folded. In the background: trees.
Trial in absentia in Ukraine. Photo: Two women stand in front of a destroyed house in the village of Lukashivka in Ukraine. Justice in absentia in a Ukrainian village
By Natalia Naidiuk
What has justice been able to achieve for Lukashivka, a village of less than 400 residents in the Chernihiv region (North of Ukraine), three years and a half after its liberation?
Ali Kushayb sentenced at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: Kosheib sinks into his chair as he hears the sentences handed down by the judges. Ali Kushayb, the convicted symbol of crimes in Darfur
By Margherita Capacci
Followed by Sudanese in The Hague and in refugees’ camps near Darfur, offering finally “some relief” to the victims, the judgement handed down on Monday 6 October 2025 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, alias Ali Kushayb, remains an isolated act of justice.
International Court of Justice (ICJ). Photo: view of the court during the reading of the ruling rejecting Sudan’s complaint accusing the United Arab Emirates of complicity in genocide. ICJ: instructions for a much-used tool
By Asymmetrical Haircuts
Opening with Mali’s recent application against Algeria before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), this new podcast from our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts updates the practices and techniques used by the many states that resort to this busy court.
End of a hearing before the IRMCT, in The Hague, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia (ICTR and ICTY). In the background, Judge Iain Bonomy. The many endings of the Kabuga trial
By Lucy Gaynor
When is a trial no longer a trial? When is a defendant no longer a defendant? When is a court no longer a court?
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Eyes from Space in Lundin’s Trial When few international journalists could witness the violence in Sudan, satellites orbiting hundreds of kilometres above did. Early in the summer, their grainy images were projected on courtroom screens in Stockholm.
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The invaders return - Poster for the redesigned ‘’The Invaders‘’ series. A map of the world is inlaid in the starry sky.
The invaders return
7 March 2025 by Thierry Cruvellier
More and more countries – Russia, Israel, the United States, China, Azerbaijan, Venezuela – are publicly declaring their intent to conquer territories by force, or like Rwanda are doing it without admitting. The world order established in 1945 is obsolete, and international law is being violated without a second thought. Here is a world map of the new annexations under way and those that are openly threatened.
Is the death of the ICC imminent? And what does the future hold for international law? Two renowned experts, Mark Freeman and Mark Drumbl, examine these two topical issues. Illustration: Drumbl and Freeman by Benoît Peyrucq.
Thinking about the death of the ICC and what comes next
7 February 2025 by Thierry Cruvellier
Beyond the US sanctions, what led to the possible demise of the International Criminal Court (ICC)? Was the model and the supremacy of criminal law just misled from the start? And if the ICC falls off the cliff, what’s next? What’s the place and future of international law? Two-long time...
In Kasai (Democratic Republic of Congo), some trials are held in mobile courts, in the heart of the villages, as close as possible to the crimes and the victims. Photo: Protected witnesses are covered from head to toe during a trial for war crimes committed by members of the Kamwina Nsapu militia.
In Kasai, justice on the ground and under protection
6 March 2025 by Joseph Mbuyi
After several postponements, the appeal trial of two men sentenced to death for war crimes committed in the Congolese region of Kasai opened in the town of Masuika on March 3. The entire court traveled to the crime site. To hear the often protected witnesses, near the very place where was committed the murder of a traditional chief and the devastation caused by the Kamwina Nsapu conflict between 2016 and 2019.
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27 June 2025
Truth tents: “Talking about what Syrians need right now” 
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25 September 2025
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19 September 2025
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3 October 2025
DRC: Should the Victims' Fund be dissolved?
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22 September 2025
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1 August 2025
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