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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.

Witness hearings end in Sonko’s trial

Eleven witnesses have testified in the trial of Ousman Sonko, a former Interior minister of The Gambia accused of crimes against humanity before a Swiss court. Evidence covered alleged sexual violence, two murders, the brutal repression of 2016 opposition protests – and, finally, that of a 2006 coup attempt. But instead of hearing the closing […]

By Mariam Sankanu (in Bellinzona, Switzerland)

Sihem Bensedrine (former president of Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission) presents the IVD's report to President Béji Caïd Essebsi in 2018.

Attacks resume against Tunisia’s Truth Commission

Solo Sandeng, opposition leader in Gambia, died in prison following his arrest during a demonstration in 2016. Photo: A demonstration by Sandeng's relatives at his official funeral in 2023.

The order to “shoot” and “kill” Solo Sandeng

Desi Bouterse, former president of Suriname

Convicting presidents: the Suriname case

Trial in Ukraine of Denys Kulikovskyi for acts of torture committed in the illegal

In pre-2022 occupied Donetsk, a prison’s hell

Sonko trial (Gambia) - Portrait of Baba Jobe inlaid into the decor of the courtroom at the Swiss federal court in Bellizone.

Sonko trial: who is responsible for the murder of Baba Jobe?

In Colombia, an Awá indigenous leader leads a ceremony prior to a hearing before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)

Colombia's Awá Indians, closer to justice but plagued by violence

Israel / Palestine conflict - Inhabitants of Gaza amid the ruins.

Israel-Palestine: the legal battle has started

At the Ousman Sonko trial in Switzerland, Gambian plaintiffs pose at the entrance to the court in Bellinzona.

Ousman Sonko faces the first witness

Photo montage from the slideshow illustrating our first Justice Info Correspondents' Meeting in Geneva (November 2023).

A window onto Justice Info’s editorial team

Alfred Yekatom, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Central African Republic, shakes hands with his lawyer Mylène Dimitri during his trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The controversy on “intermediaries” hits back in the ICC Yekatom trial

Portrait of Vincent Lurquin: lawyer specialising in international justice (practising in Belgium), with a particular focus on the crimes committed in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.

Vincent Lurquin: "having the humanity to defend someone accused of the worst crimes"

Gambia - Sonko trial in Switzerland - Photo: Swiss federal court in Bellinzona

Gambian trial starts in Switzerland for crimes against humanity

Alvaro Leyva, Colombia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, is enigmatically opposed to certain transitional justice mechanisms in Colombia.

Colombia: a minister's enigmatic attacks on transitional justice

Rwandan Séraphin Twahirwa sentenced to life imprisonment in Belgium for his involvement in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

Belgium: life sentence, notably for rape, for a Rwandan

Tunisia and justice for Palestine - Photo: Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed holds a Tunisian flag (image of justice behind him).

Gaza: why Tunisia has not referred the situation to the ICC

The former President of Suriname, Desi Bouterse, speaks out following his conviction in an appeal trial.

Ex-president Bouterse definitively sentenced in Suriname

At a trial in France, a Rwandan doctor (Sosthene Munyemana) is convicted of taking part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Munyemana: a Rwandan doctor sentenced to 24 years in prison in France

International Criminal Court (ICC): NGOs and states - Photo: Karim Khan's speech in Cairo.

ICC: why NGOs are concerned, not States