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All Justice Info articles since 2015

All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.

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"

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, Justice Info interviewed academic Frédéric Mégret about the challenges of justice in Ukraine. In this […]

By Franck Petit (Justice Info)

Catholic residential school (named

Indian homes in French Guiana: truth commission project not yet ripe

Eusebio Torres participating via video link in the reconstruction of the crimes for which he was sentenced, on February 20, to 30 years in prison, in Paraguay. Photo: Someone holds a smartphone showing a video of Eusebio Torres.

In Paraguay, a symbolic judgment on the dictatorship

Hearing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israel's occupation of Palestine, February 19, 2024. Photo: Philippe Sands develops his arguments from the Palestinian side.

Palestine’s plea against occupation

International Court of Justice (ICJ): 2 questions for peace in Palestine. Photo: view of the court during the hearing of South Africa (right) against Israel (left), facing the judges. 2 question marks are embedded in screens.

Israel occupation: ICJ goes to the heart of the “political deadlock”

Prosecutor interrogates witnesses at the hearing held by the Kominternivskiy District Court of Kharkiv (Ukraine).

An "ordinary man", a grain storage and the Russian occupiers

Translation of universal jurisdiction trials - Photo: instant translation equipment with microphone and headphones, in an insulated glass booth.

Syrian trials translated into Arabic: the Netherlands' conclusive test

In Guinea, the collective of lawyers for the victims of September 28 are concerned about the desertion of witnesses in the face of threats to their safety.

Guinea: frightened witnesses desert the trial

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

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

Russian trial in Donetsk: 33 Ukrainian prisoners of war sentenced.

More than 200 Ukrainians tried in the occupied territories

Report from Thomas Kwoyelo's birthplace in Uganda, with his family. Photo: Kwoyelo's relatives in front of the house where he lived as a child.

“Kwoyelo was born and grew up here”

Thomas Kwoyelo's trial in Uganda - He appears on video on television during a hearing he is unable to attend.

Uganda: apologies but still no trial for ex-LRA Kwoyelo

Gibril Massaquoi was acquitted on appeal following a second trial in Finland.

Massaquoi affair: epilogue to a fiasco

3 years after the coup in Myanmar: what justice? Photo: soldiers stand guard on a blockaded road to parliament (February 1, 2021).

Three years after the coup, hopes of justice for Myanmar?

Is international justice relevant to prevent genocide in Gaza? Photo: A protestor holds a Palestinian flag in front of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague.

Is international justice relevant to prevent genocide in Gaza?

In Guatemala, family members who were victims of enforced disappearances celebrate the verdict in a trial in Belgium.

A Belgian court provides hope for justice in Guatemala

Dr Hassane Bah (forensic pathologist) describes the horror of the massacre in Conakry in 2009, during the

View from hospital and morgue during Guinea’s stadium massacre

Lafarge

The good and the bad about Lafarge case

Victims of the Israel / Palestine war in Rafah (Gaza Strip)

The ICJ calls on Israel to prevent "genocide" in Gaza