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Franck Petit

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Franck Petit is deputy editor-in-chief of JusticeInfo.net. Co-founder with Thierry Cruvellier of the online magazine International Justice Tribune, he directed it for five years, from 2004 to 2009. Since 1999, he has chronicled the trials of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He covered the International Criminal Court at its inception as well as many transitional justice issues. He has worked for Reporters Without Borders and has reported in France, Africa, the Caucasus and Turkey.

International justice for Bashar al-Assad's crimes in Syria. Photo: Broken portrait of Bashar al-Assad next to documents.

“We will follow them wherever they will go”

Renowned Syrian lawyer Anwar al-Bunni and his colleagues at the Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Research have been leading figures in Syrian efforts for justice. In Europe, they have initiated, with other organizations, universal jurisdiction proceedings against about sixty people allegedly responsible for crimes committed under Bashar al-Assad. After the latter’s fall, al-Bunni answers […]

By Franck Petit (Justice Info)

International Criminal Court and Special Criminal Court: a duel at the summit of justice in the Central African Republic. Photo: A taxi and a gendarmerie vehicle in a street in Bangui (Central African Republic).

A courts’ chase in Bangui

The ICC and the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan - Photo: refugees leave Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia.

ICC: “A preventive measure, not a transitional justice tool for Armenia”

Sudan: in response to the crimes committed in El-Fasher, and more generally in the Darfur region, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is launching an appeal for testimony. Photo: A cattle market burns down in El-Fasher after a bombardment by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Suliman Baldo: El-Fasher, a siege “comparable to Gaza”

Syrian trial in Paris (France) - Obeida Dabbagh speaks to the press following the verdict of three high-ranking Syrian security officials found guilty, in their absence, of crimes against humanity (torture) committed against his brother and nephew.

Syrian trial: what to learn from this first default judgment

Syrian trial in France. Photo: Bashar al-Assad poster on a street in Damascus, Syria.

In France, a first Syrian trial “by default”

Nika Jeiranashvili tells how he went from international justice expert to wine expert in Georgia

Nika, the Georgian international justice repentant

Mevloud Kharazishvili, victim of the war in Georgia and beneficiary of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Trust Fund for Victims assistance programme. Photo: Kharazishvili shows the pasture where he was kidnapped by Russian soldiers.

Georgia: ICC Trust Fund for Victims struggles with reality

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"

War crimes in Ukraine - Investigators from the French Gendarmerie's Institute of Criminal Research (IRCGN) examine a body in a tent after its exhumation from a mass grave in Bucha, in cooperation with Ukrainian police.

Yuriy Belousov: “We can’t lose Ukraine’s legal battle”

Following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine, grain silos were flooded in Kherson. Ukrainian justice speaks of ecocide.

Kakhovka dam: Ukraine pioneers prosecution for ecocide

Frédéric Mégret

Frédéric Mégret: "Justice for Ukraine depends on the outcome of the fighting”

Michel Landry Luanga, President of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic, delivers a speech during the inauguration of its premises in Bangui in 2020.

Central African Republic: Special Court "in the starting block" (2/2)

On the desk of the president of the Special Criminal Court (CPS) in the Central African Republic, two piles of multicolored files.

Central African Republic: Special Court "in the starting block" (1/2)

Toussaint Muntazini poses at his office at the Special Criminal Court (SPC) in the Central African Republic.

Toussaint Muntazini: "If they extend the Special Court mandate, they expect added value"

In Chad, representatives of Hissène Habré's victims sit down to talk about the compensation (or

Chad’s president promises to compensate Habré victims

Drawing of Laurent Bucyibaruta sitting in the courtroom of his trial in Paris. In the background, a magistrate.

Rwanda: "Bucyibaruta did what he could"

Cardboard tubes displaying photo portraits of Vladimir Putin, on the display of a merchant in Russia

Ukraine: “Putin’s goal is not eradication but subjugation”

Russian soldiers (including a sniper) in Georgia. A Russian flag flutters in the wind.

Georgia, the ICC's testing ground for Ukraine