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Stephanie van den Berg is one of JusticeInfo’s correspondents in The Hague. She is a freelance journalist covering the various international courts and Dutch news for Reuters news agency and others. Stephanie has been writing about war crimes trials and international justice for almost twenty years. Together with JusticeInfo colleague Janet Anderson, she is also the host of Asymmetrical Haircuts: a podcast offering a sideways look at international justice, interviewing mainly female experts in their fields.

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Salih Mustapha in the dock of the accused
Kosovo Chambers: battle for legitimacy at the opening of first trial
17 September 2021 by Stephanie van den Berg
The first trial of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers opened on September 15 against a Kosovo Liberation Army prison officer, Salih Mustafa, with a lengthy plea from US prosecutor Jack Smith – to defend its legitimacy to target “ [...]
Taliban fighter posing in front of Taliban flags Afghanistan: ICC more than ever at a standstill
16 September 2021 by Stephanie van den Berg
With takeover of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the nearly impossible International Criminal Court investigation into war crimes has taken another blow. What are the options for the new prosecutor Karim Khan in this case where it is [...]
Dutch soldiers fire shells in the Chora region, Afghanistan Dutch war crimes in Afghanistan: The Australian trigger
13 July 2021 by Stephanie van den Berg
An Australian probe has dented the Dutch wall of silence about alleged war crimes in Afghanistan more than ten years ago. Stories from Dutch Afghanistan veterans have begun to surface in the media. It has also boosted a long-runni [...]
Stanisic and Simatovic at the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague Stanisic and Simatovic: slim convictions in longest running Yugoslav trial
1 July 2021 by Stephanie van den Berg
On June 30, a former head of Serbian state security and his subordinate were convicted for crimes in just one Bosnian town, and sentenced to 12 years in jail. But this retrial in the longest Yugoslav case before the UN court in Th [...]
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Ratco Mladic
8 June 2021 by Stephanie van den Berg
26 years after the Bosnia war, Mladic case ends Today Ratko Mladic, 78, will hear the final decision in the case against him. In 2017 the former head of the Bosnian Serb army was found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by the UN International Criminal T [...]
Trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic
19 April 2021 by Stephanie van den Berg
Last trial, last chance at the U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia The retrial of two former Serbian spy masters is the last trial that the U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia and its successor institution, the Residual Mechanism, will hold about the 1990s conflicts that ravaged the former Yugos [...]
10 March 2020 by Stephanie van den Berg
MH17: Why the Dutch ruled out war crimes charges Three Russians and one Ukrainian are prosecuted by a Dutch court for the shooting down of a civilian aircraft in July 2014, killing all 298 people on board. On the opening of the trial on March 9, the prosecution revealed why it c [...]
14 October 2019 by Stephanie van den Berg
CAR II: Secret Story at the ICC, second season In the Central African Republic case number 2, aka “CAR II”, the International Criminal Court prosecutor has presented an evidence largely marked by the seal of secrecy against two former militia leaders, Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona [...]
23 May 2019 by Stephanie van den Berg
The Dutch war crimes unit hits harder on Syrian suspects On May 21, the Dutch war crimes unit announced the arrest of a former commander of the al-Nusra Front, formerly the Syrian wing of al-Qaeda. After several years of being surpassed by Germany and Sweden when it comes to prosecuting [...]
19 March 2019 by Stephanie van den Berg
Karadzic: last chapter of a mega trial at the Yugoslav tribunal On Wednesday, Bosnian Serb wartime political leader Radovan Karadzic, 73, will hear if his 40-year-jail term is confirmed, increased to a life sentence as prosecutors demand or if he gets the retrial his lawyers are seeking. This [...]
5 February 2019 by Stephanie van den Berg
Mass atrocities? There’s an app for that There’s been an explosion in recent years of special apps launched by different NGOs to help witnesses and victims document atrocities. But it is difficult to track a parallel increase in successful prosecutions based on app-gener [...]
8 November 2018 by Stephanie van den Berg
Gbagbo: Is there a case to answer? The trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo resumes next week before the International Criminal Court. The Defence is trying to have the case dismissed for lack of evidence. And the judges seem to wonder about the prosecu [...]
29 October 2018 by Stephanie van den Berg
Damaging power struggle engulfs the former ICTY Judges at the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT), the successor institution of the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, have become embroiled in a very public power struggle which is already impact [...]
24 September 2018 by Stephanie van den Berg
Lebanon Tribunal: What is a trial without suspects for? The Special Tribunal for Lebanon is rounding up its case against four accused over the 2005 bombing that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri and others. Closing arguments took place in The Hague between September 11 [...]