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Lena Bjurström

France
Correspondent

Lena Bjurström is a freelance journalist who writes about exile, gender and justice for La Chronique d'Amnesty, Politis, Femmes ici et ailleurs and others. For the media outlet Les Jours, she wrote a two-year investigation on Anwar Raslan, a former Syrian intelligence colonel on trial for crimes against humanity in Koblenz, Germany. At the same time, she observes the multiplication of Syrian cases in European courts for Justice Info. In 2019, she co-founded the Focus collective, which brings together independent journalists and documentary filmmakers who share the same obsession with long-term reporting.

Lundin trial in Sweden: when oil and war crimes mix in Sudan.
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Oil and war crimes in Sudan: Lundin trial opens in Sweden

The long-awaited trial of two former executives of Swedish oil company Lundin begins in Stockholm on September 5. Alex Schneiter and Ian Lundin are charged with complicity in war crimes committed over 20 years ago in what is now South Sudan. The trial promises to be the longest and most complex ever initiated by the […]
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The credibility of witnesses was at the heart of the Hategekimana trial. Accused of genocide in Rwanda, he was on trial in France. Verdict: life imprisonment.

Hategekimana proves classic Rwandan case

Genocide in Rwanda - Drawing showing Philippe Hategekimana at his trial in Paris.

Philippe Hategekimana makes final statement, then goes silent

The children of genocide in Rwanda - Hategekimana trial / France Manier in France

I was 10 years old in Rwanda in 1994 and now a prosecution witness

Genocide in Rwanda - At the Hategekimana trial in Paris (France), Rwandan priest Hormisdas Nsengimana was called as a witness.

Controversial priest dodges in Hategekimana trial

Philippe Hategekimana (or Philippe Manier / former Rwandan gendarme) at his trial in Paris, France.

Hategekimana trial: former Rwandan soldiers have memory gaps

Genocide in Rwanda - Trial in France of ex-gendarme Philippe Manier (formerly Philippe Hategekimana)

Genocide in Rwanda: the multiple lives of a gendarmerie officer on trial in Paris

Universal jurisdiction in France - World map of countries where France conducts investigations

Crucial hearing for universal jurisdiction in France

Drawing of Kunti Kamara during his conviction for crimes against humanity in France

Liberian Kunti Kamara convicted in France for crimes against humanity

Pencil drawing of a courtroom in Paris, in the trial of Kunti Kamara, for crimes committed in Liberia. Another Liberian (living in Switzerland), Alieu Kosiah, was called to testify.

Liberian case in France: "too complicated to be tried by whites"

3D image illustrating the construction project of the Paris court (office buildings). In the foreground, the logos of several companies (Lafarge, BNP Paribas, Uniqlo, Amesys and Castel group) are embedded in bubbles.

Lafarge and the judicial twists and turns of corporate liability in France

General Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi speaks at a microphone

France: Interpol president suspected of torture

Iraj Mesdaghi displays documents on a table

Sweden-Iran: Noury faces death row survivors

A soldier stands guard outside an oil refinery

Oil and war crimes: Swedish justice in the front line