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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.

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Justice in Syria. Portrait (drawing) of Nadim Houry, international lawyer.
Justice in Syria should be “a new social contract”
25 February 2025 by Franck Petit (Justice Info)
Two months after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, director of the Arab Reform Initiative Nadim Houry explores the possibilities for transitional justice. In his view, “civil peace without justice is inconceivable today” [...]
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”
13 December 2024 by Franck Petit (Justice Info)
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, univer [...]
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
9 December 2024 by Franck Petit (special correspondent in The Hague, Netherlands)
Last June, the International Criminal Court already knew that it would run out of trials in 2025. At that time, it received a tip-off about the whereabouts of a local anti-balaka leader in the Central African Republic, Edmond Bein [...]
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”
23 September 2024 by Franck Petit (in Erevan, Armenia)
Nearly a year ago, Armenia ratified the Rome Statute and became a State party to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This came just after the full invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh by neighbouring Azerbaijan, which led to the force [...]
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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).
13 June 2024 by Franck Petit (Justice Info)
Suliman Baldo: El-Fasher, a siege “comparable to Gaza” Surrounded, starving, under artillery fire and awaiting an imminent offensive by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), El-Fasher, the capital of Darfur, is “hell on earth”. On Tuesday 11 June, the prosecutor of the International Crimina [...]
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.
3 June 2024 by Franck Petit (Justice Info)
Syrian trial: what to learn from this first default judgment In the four-day Syrian trial in Paris, judges on May 30 gave their reasoning for the verdict handed down on May 24. In a symbolic recognition for victims, three high-ranking Syrian security officials - Ali Mamlouk, Jamil Hassan an [...]
Syrian trial in France. Photo: Bashar al-Assad poster on a street in Damascus, Syria.
24 May 2024 by Franck Petit (in Paris, France)
In France, a first Syrian trial “by default” The trial of three high-ranking Syrian officials opened on 21 May before the Paris Assize Court. Tried in their absence, they are charged with complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes. A symbolic trial for France. And [...]
Nika Jeiranashvili tells how he went from international justice expert to wine expert in Georgia
25 March 2024 by Franck Petit (special envoy in Kolagi, Georgia)
Nika, the Georgian international justice repentant There are many who have been disappointed by international justice, but few who speak so frankly and draw such clear-cut conclusions. Nika Jeiranashvili was the face of Georgian civil society, in The Hague, during the Internationa [...]
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.
21 March 2024 by Franck Petit (special envoy in Gori, Georgia)
Georgia: ICC Trust Fund for Victims struggles with reality The central Georgian town of Gori is known as the birthplace of Stalin, whose statue long stood before the town hall and was only removed after the Russia-Georgia war of August 2008. For almost a year now, Gori has been the site o [...]
War in Ukraine and justice - Photo: Ukrainian tanks stuck in the mud near the front line.
23 February 2024 by Franck Petit (Justice Info)
"Stalemate in the Ukraine war translates into a justice stalemate" Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, plunging the country into the deadliest war in Europe since 1945 and turning global geopolitics on its head. At the start of this conflict, and then again a year ago, Ju [...]
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.
11 July 2023 by Franck Petit
Yuriy Belousov: “We can’t lose Ukraine’s legal battle” In an interview with Justice Info, the head of the War Crimes Department at the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine takes stock of what has been achieved since the start of the Russian invasion. Yuriy Belousov describes th [...]
Following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine, grain silos were flooded in Kherson. Ukrainian justice speaks of ecocide.
10 July 2023 by Franck Petit
Kakhovka dam: Ukraine pioneers prosecution for ecocide The scale of ecological disaster triggered on June 6 by the explosion of Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam, located on a Russian-occupied stretch of the Dnieper River, makes this an exemplary case for prosecuting environmental crimes. T [...]
Frédéric Mégret
23 February 2023 by Franck Petit
Frédéric Mégret: "Justice for Ukraine depends on the outcome of the fighting” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Frédéric Mégret Professor and co-director of the William Dawson Chair in Human Rights and Legal Pluralism One year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, its leaders remain largely immune from interna [...]
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.
17 January 2023 by Franck Petit
Central African Republic: Special Court "in the starting block" (2/2) After completing its first trial in seven years, the Special Criminal Court (SCC), whose mandate has just been renewed, is confident that it can speed up its work. Here are the details of two cases, among the 19 under investigatio [...]
On the desk of the president of the Special Criminal Court (CPS) in the Central African Republic, two piles of multicolored files.
16 January 2023 by Franck Petit
Central African Republic: Special Court "in the starting block" (1/2) The Special Criminal Court (SCC)’s mandate was renewed on December 28 by the parliament of the Central African Republic for five years, despite its meagre results. Since its creation in 2015, this UN-backed hybrid court has conduc [...]
Toussaint Muntazini poses at his office at the Special Criminal Court (SPC) in the Central African Republic.
5 January 2023 by Franck Petit
Toussaint Muntazini: "If they extend the Special Court mandate, they expect added value" The Central African Republic parliament on December 28 renewed the mandate of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) for five years. After a highly publicized arrival at Bangui airport on May 25, 2017, its Congolese prosecutor Toussaint [...]
In Chad, representatives of Hissène Habré's victims sit down to talk about the compensation (or
14 October 2022 by Franck Petit
Chad’s president promises to compensate Habré victims A glimmer of hope for the victims of former president Hissène Habré is being rekindled by the transition in Chad, where Idriss Déby Junior was reappointed president on October 10. Seeking to do what his father failed to do, Déby h [...]
Drawing of Laurent Bucyibaruta sitting in the courtroom of his trial in Paris. In the background, a magistrate.
4 July 2022 by Franck Petit
Rwanda: "Bucyibaruta did what he could" The genocide trial of former Rwandan prefect Laurent Bucyibaruta enters its final phase this week in Paris. Among the 115 witnesses, experts and civil parties called to testify, some defence witnesses portray a “careful” prefect w [...]
Cardboard tubes displaying photo portraits of Vladimir Putin, on the display of a merchant in Russia
13 June 2022 by Franck Petit
Ukraine: “Putin’s goal is not eradication but subjugation” In the Ukraine conflict, accusations of genocide have been made by both sides. Moscow has sought to justify its armed intervention by saying there is an ongoing genocide against the Russian-speaking population of the Donbass regio [...]
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