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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.

Ndélé 1 trial before the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic: the 4 defendants line up at the bar in orange prison garb.
Central African Republic: the end of the trial of the four rebels who “did nothing’
18 November 2024 by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
The second trial of the Special Criminal Court in Bangui came to an end on Thursday 14 November 2024, after the parties' closing arguments. The verdict will be announced for 13 December 2024 in the so-called “Ndélé 1” case, in whi [...]
Gang stories - Photo: a member of the MS-13 gang behind bars in a prison in El Salvador Gang stories : another way of looking at violence
15 November 2024 by Dennis Rodgers
Gangs and gangsters fascinate. What’s particular about them is not the violence, which can be found in all quarters of our societies, but the way in which they represent it most vividly and, somehow, honestly. The GANGS project, d [...]
Gangs and transitional justice - Photo: Young people take part in a sports event in Marseille's northern suburbs, where violence is rife. Are gangs a topic for transitional justice?
14 November 2024 by Dennis Rodgers
Recognising that gangs are fundamentally embedded social phenomena, intimately linked to the urban fabric in which they operate, and that their violence intersects with other forms of social, structural, state or environmental bru [...]
Women rights in Afghanistan - Veiled women leave a beauty salon in Kabul, Afghanistan Gender apartheid at the forefront of international justice
12 November 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Gender apartheid is a new frontline of international justice, as Justice Info recently highlighted. The guest in this new episode of our Asymmetrical Haircuts partners, Karima Bennoune, is currently campaigning for this alleged cr [...]
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Balakliya's ‘ordinary man’, Anatoliy Derevyanko, during his trial for collaboration in Ukraine. Photo: Balakliya stands behind the glass in the dock.
12 November 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova
The Balakliya “ordinary man” released on probation He kept hoping, but did not expect it. He came to hear the verdict without his belongings and passport: he did not think he would be released. In a rare decision in collaboration cases in Ukraine, after more than a year and a half [...]
COP29: are climate actions influencing the negotiations? - Photo: People bathing in the Caspian Sea in Baku, Azerbaijan. In the background: oil barges.
8 November 2024 by Benjamin Bibas
COP29: do legal climate actions influence the negotiations? The 29th COP on climate opens in Azerbaijan on Monday 11 November, following a series of legal rulings in Europe forcing countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. But are they likely to influence the mandates of internat [...]
Kabuga's money - Photo: bundles of banknotes (Rwandan francs)
7 November 2024 by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Will the UN ever recover Kabuga’s money? Bogged down in its proceedings, will the UN Mechanism, the successor to the Tribunal for Rwanda set up thirty years ago, recover Félicien Kabuga’s money one day? Located in France, Belgium and Rwanda thanks to his son, the assets [...]
Military report supposedly behind the plot that led to the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. Photo montage combining a portrait of Théoneste Bagosora at a hearing before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and a scan of the 1991 report of the ‘Bagosora Commission’.
5 November 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier
Justice Info publishes the report supposedly behind the genocide plot in Rwanda For 30 years, only an extract of this report had been known. And in the eyes of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), this extract formed the basis of the criminal conspiracy that led to the geno [...]
Lucy Gaynor answers Thierry Cruvellier's questions in an in-depth interview about the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Illustration: Gaynor's portrait.
4 November 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier
How the UN tribunal for Rwanda shaped the genocide narrative On November 8, 1994, less than four months after the genocide in Rwanda, the United Nations created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Over the course of almost 30 years of trials, how has this court forged its [...]
Trial of Mykola Fedorian in Ukraine for crimes of treason committed in Russian-occupied Crimea. Photo: Fedorian at his trial in Kyiv, behind the glass of the dock.
31 October 2024 by Iryna Salii
“I consider it cynical to accuse Crimeans of treason against Ukraine” Mykola Fedorian was deputy chief of the Crimean Ministry of Internal Affairs until 2011. He was working at a state-owned company when Russia annexed Crimea. He stayed, keeping his Ukrainian passport and making visits back home. Un [...]
Trial in France of Eugène Rwamucyo for complicity in genocide in Rwanda - Photo: Eugène Rwamucyo at the opening of his trial in Paris
30 October 2024 by AFP
Rwamucyo sentenced for complicity in genocide Eugène Rwamucyo, a former Rwandan doctor and teacher, was sentenced to 27 years' imprisonment by a French court on October 30 for complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity. He is the eighth Rwandan to be tried in France f [...]
Andryi Kostin, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, tendered his resignation on 22 October 2024 following a corruption scandal that has cast a shadow over the entire justice system in Ukraine. Photo: portrait of Kostin, a Ukrainian flag printed on his shoulder.
29 October 2024 by Anastasia Zubova
Ukraine: the scandal behind the resignation of the Prosecutor General The Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Andriy Kostin, tendered his resignation on October 22, in the wake of a corruption scandal that has rocked the judicial system. Dozens of prosecutors have allegedly obtained fake disability certi [...]
Indigenous rights in Australia: the role of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the imprint of the Commonwealth. Photo: King Charles observes a performance by an Aboriginal group.
28 October 2024 by Philip Murphy
Indigenous rights in Australia: the rôle of the Crown On a visit to Australia, King Charles III was challenged by a senator of Aboriginal origin, Lidia Thorpe, who accused Great Britain of having perpetrated a “genocide” in her country, and called for recognition of the rights of Fir [...]
Complaint in Belgium over allegations of war crimes committed by foreign soldiers of the Israeli army in Gaza - Photo: an Israeli sniper seen from behind, in firing position at the top of a building.
25 October 2024 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Crimes in Palestine: Belgian justice takes an interest in its dual nationals Belgium is investigating two cases of war crimes committed in Gaza and the West Bank, under its universal jurisdiction. The latest case is causing a stir: a Belgian-Israeli sniper is suspected of being the perpetrator or co-perpet [...]
Karim Khan and the ICC are under pressure - Photo: Karim Khan listens to Luis Fernando Murillo whisper in his ear as he shakes his hand during a visit to Colombia.
24 October 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
Pressure mounts on the ICC The investigation into the Israel-Palestine conflict has positioned the International Criminal Court in the forefront of world politics. The institution faces pressures on multiple fronts, externally and internally. Evidence of Is [...]
Trial in the Netherlands for the slavery of Yezidi women in Syria - Photo: a Yezidi woman victim of slavery poses in profile in Syria.
22 October 2024 by Margherita Capacci
“IS saw the Yazidis as objects, not people” From October 14 to 17, victims’ testimonies were shared in the trial of a Dutch national accused of holding two Yazidi women as house slaves in Syria. The accused had travelled in 2015 with her four-year-old son and married an Isl [...]
21 October 2024 by Maria Koroleva
The “Azov” trial in Russia is down to 12 defendants in court The “Azov” trial which began in Rostov-on-Don in June 2023 is the largest criminal case related to Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia. In late August, the prosecution requested sentences ranging from 16 to 24 years for all accus [...]
In a street in Boutcha, Ukraine, journalists filmed and photographed burnt corpses being handled by people to move them.
18 October 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Meet Ukraine’s Evidence Gatherers Ukraine’s prosecutor’s office says they have about 130,000 potential incidents of war crimes, and issued 250 notices of suspicion. Courts convicted more than a hundred, most of those in absentia. But before you have a trial, you o [...]
Guantánamo: the American prison (in Cuba) where torture is still practised along with various other violations of human rights (or of the Law in general). Photo: a prisoner in an orange uniform is photographed from a distance, behind barbed wire, surrounded by soldiers.
18 October 2024 by Julia Crawford
Guantánamo: legacy of torture and abuse still haunts America Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, candidates for the US presidential elections on November 5, have been silent so far on what they would do about Guantánamo. Many have called for the closing down of this US military prison on Cuba, [...]