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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)

Interview with Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and lawyer in Iran. Photo: portrait of Ebadi.

Shirin Ebadi: “Gender apartheid means you are discriminating against half of society”

International law: exchange of prisoners between Sweden and Iran. Photo: Hamid Nouri speaks to the Iranian press on his return to Tehran.

International law put to the test in prisoner exchanges

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”

ICC arrest warrants against Israel and Hamas. Photo montage of 3 flags: Hamas, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Israel.

Israel/Palestine: the moment of truth

War crimes in Ukraine and ICC arrest warrants - Photo: Sergey Surovikin (former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army) and Vladimir Putin pose in front of Russian flags.

Ukraine: “We could still expect another ICC arrest warrant soon”

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"

Restitution of stolen gold royal artefacts to Ghana’s Asante king.

Ghana’s looted Asante gold comes home – what’s the deal?

Klaus Hoffman (a German senior prosecutor of the Advisory Group for the Investigation of the Most Serious International Crimes in Ukraine) explains:

Klaus Hoffmann: “The problem of collaborators is not only legal, but also political”

The Lundin trial could worry multinationals - Bubbles in an oil puddle in Sudan.

Lundin trial: "a strong signal to business"

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”

Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech in Ukraine

What justice options for Ukraine faced with Russia’s invasion?