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.
Ukraine: “We could still expect another ICC arrest warrant soon”
8 March 2024
by Janet H. Anderson
Law Professor Sergey Vasiliev analyses the two arrest warrants issued on March 5 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Sergey Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov, two top officers of the Russian army. He explains what we know [...]
5 March 2024
by AFP
On March 5, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Sergei Kobylach, head of Russia's strategic air force, and Viktor Sokolov, head of Russia's Black Sea fleet. They are charged with war crimes and crimes [...]
5 March 2024
by Janet H. Anderson
The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) is now subject to thousands of memes and TikTok videos of its proceedings. A whole new generation have found out about this court via its involvement in the ongoing wars in Pale [...]
4 March 2024
by Mariam Sankanu
How Gambia’s truth commission findings shaped the Sonko trial
The trial of Ousman Sonko, former Interior minister of The Gambia, resumes today in Switzerland. Parties are expected to present their closing arguments. A striking fact of the evidence put before the Swiss court last January was [...]
1 March 2024
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The original internal sin of Colombia’s JEP
An opaque recruitment process at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has brought unease and criticism. It came in stark contrast to the exemplary way judges of the transitional justice criminal court were selected. It also hi [...]
29 February 2024
by Lucy Gaynor
The wild reparations order of the ICC
On February 28, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced their decision on reparations to victims in the case of Dominic Ongwen, a former Ugandan rebel commander convicted three years ago. They came up with a mom [...]
27 February 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
10 years after the Yazidi genocide what justice?
In the early hours of August 3rd 2014 Islamic State militants launched a coordinated attack and forcibly took over the Sinjar region in northern Iraq, home to the Yazidi people. In the days and weeks that followed, approximately 1 [...]
27 February 2024
by Olivier Truc
Lundin trial: defence attacks prosecution probe
It's the turn of lawyers for the second defendant, Swiss citizen Alexandre Schneiter, to present their arguments in the Lundin trial in Sweden. The defence of the former oil company CEO, prosecuted as an accessory to war crimes, c [...]
26 February 2024
by Vladyslava Kobko
The Ukrainian drone that said “follow me”
Klim Kerzhayev, a Russian soldier, was accused of opening fire on a civilian car in Northeastern Ukraine, back in June 2022. The woman inside the car escaped thanks to the ingenuity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Her husband was l [...]
23 February 2024
by Franck Petit
"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, Ju [...]
22 February 2024
by Clémentine Méténier
Indian homes in French Guiana: truth commission project not yet ripe
A request to create a "Truth Commission on Indian Homes in French Guiana (1935-2023)" was submitted on February 1, 2024, to the French National Assembly, in the form of a report by the Institut francophone pour la Justice et la Dé [...]
20 February 2024
by AFP
In Paraguay, a symbolic judgment on the dictatorship
On February 20, 87-year-old former police officer Eusebio Torres was sentenced by the Paraguayan courts to 30 years in prison for torture committed in 1976 during the military dictatorship. Because of his age, he will not go to pr [...]
20 February 2024
by Janet H. Anderson
Palestine’s plea against occupation
On the first day of hearings at the International Court of Justice in the Hague on the legality of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, the judges heard from Palestine’s lawyers. They emphasised the international importance of the ca [...]
16 February 2024
by Janet H. Anderson
Israel occupation: ICJ goes to the heart of the “political deadlock”
The two questions being debated from Monday 19 February - by 52 States and 3 international organisations - at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) goes all at once to the heart of the conflict that is raging, of the world lega [...]
15 February 2024
by Tetiana Fedorkova
An "ordinary man", a grain storage and the Russian occupiers
The man with grey hair, escorted into the courtroom in handcuffs, is alleged to have risen up as self-proclaimed manager of the Balakliya Grain Storage Company during the Russian occupation of that city in the Kharkiv region, east [...]
13 February 2024
by Margherita Capacci
Syrian trials translated into Arabic: the Netherlands' conclusive test
On January 22, the verdict in the first Syrian regime-related trial in the Netherlands was announced by the Hague District Court. The trial had a unique feature never before seen in Europe: it was simultaneously translated and reb [...]
12 February 2024
by Matthias Raynal
Guinea: frightened witnesses desert the trial
A new phase of the 28 September 2009 massacre trial starts this Monday, February 12, in Guinea with the appearance of a first witness – but in close session. Many fear for their safety, and many have withdrawn since the escape of [...]
9 February 2024
by Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann
Ghana’s looted Asante gold comes home – what’s the deal?
After 150 years, 39 artefacts that form part of Asante’s royal regalia are due to return to the Asantehene – the ruler of the Asante people – in Kumasi, Ghana, in February and April this year. Archaeologist and Ghana heritage spec [...]