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The Correa trial: fear or zeal?
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The opening of the trial of Michael Sang Correa seems to clarify the case: the former Gambian hitman does not deny the tortures he was involved in; he says he was forced into it. While the prosecution argues he had a choice and was a willing participant.
Trial of Michael Sang Correa in the United States for crimes committed in Gambia. Illustration: Correa appears in court surrounded by the various protagonists in his trial.
Colonial crimes committed by France in Cameroon: a report seeks to establish the truth. Photo: French President Emmanuel Macron receives a copy of the report. What will be the legacy of the France-Cameroon commission?
By Julia Crawford
After more than two years of work, a joint commission into French colonial crimes in Cameroon submitted its findings in January 2025. Some 1,000 pages eventually hailed by academics. Now the follow-up begins.
Trial of ex-jungler Michael Sang Correa in the United States for acts of torture committed in Gambia. Photo: entrance to the courthouse in Denver. Former “Jungler” Correa on trial in the U.S.
By Mariam Sankanu
The trial of Michael Sang Correa, an alleged former member of a hit-squad in The Gambia, opens on April 7 in Denver, Colorado. He is the first non-US citizen to be tried under U.S. law for acts of torture committed outside the U.S.
Contempt of court proceedings have been brought against Peter Robinson, a lawyer who defended a Rwandan on trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Today, this tribunal is represented by an expensive and inefficient ‘residual mechanism’ (the IRMCT). 3D image of the IRMCT buildings near Arusha in Tanzania. What lies beneath the Robinson case
By Balthazar Nduwayezu + Thierry Cruvellier
The Mechanism that succeeded the UN tribunals intends to prosecute the lawyer Peter Robinson for contempt of court. But who still needs this judicial institution, which has cost around 400 million dollars over the last twelve years?
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By Asymmetrical Haircuts
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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
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