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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.

The Epicentre hypermarket near Chernihiv (Ukraine) in 2022 after it was bombed by the Russian army. Photo: exterior view of the burnt-out hypermarket.
At the epicentre of environmental damage in Ukraine
17 October 2024 by Ksenia Rekun
The war in Ukraine has led to major environmental damage to soil, air, water, and people, caused by Russian shelling. In the Chernihiv region only, Ukrainian authorities evaluate its cost at about 630 million dollars. How is this [...]
Reparations (financial compensation) from the Special Criminal Court (CPS) in the Central African Republic. Photo: A boy pulls two oxen carrying bags of peanuts in Paoua. Central African Republic reparations: what victims say about first payments
15 October 2024 by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
In mid-September, the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic announced it had implemented reparations for the victims of two massacres in 2019, the subject of its first trial. What do the beneficiaries have to say [...]
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the aid fund for victims of the ‘6-day war’ (often called ‘Genocost’ in the DRC) is struggling to fulfil its mission. Frivao is suspected of embezzlement and needs to be overhauled. Photo: Kisangani cemetery. DRC: Victims’ fund overhauled  amid embezzlement suspicions
14 October 2024 by Caleb Kazadi
Despite a reserve of 195 million dollars paid by Uganda, the Special Reparation and Compensation Fund for Victims of Uganda's Armed Activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Frivao) is struggling to fulfil its mission: to id [...]
Barbed wire fence is pictured at the Lithuanian- Belarusian border in Sadziunai, Lithuania. Lithuania, Belarus and the ICC
11 October 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Lithuania is up for lawfare. A member state of the International Criminal Court (ICC), it has sparked an ICC preliminary inquiry by submitting a referral to investigate Belarus, a non-member state, for crimes against humanity. It [...]
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Oleg Myzhgorodskyi, an alleged member of the Ukrainian ‘Azov’ regiment, is accused of ‘terrorism’ in a trial in Russia. Photo: 2 side-by-side portraits of Myzhgorodskyi, in 2021 (before detention) and in 2023.
11 October 2024 by Valentyna Osterska
Chernihiv waits for its “Azov” fighters on trial in Russia “Oleg weighed 115 kilograms, he weighs only about 50 now,” says the sister of one of the alleged members of the Ukrainian “Azov” regiment accused of ‘terrorism’ in the Federation of Russia. While the Rostov-on-Don military court i [...]
Trial of private entrepreneurs for collaboration with Russia in Ukraine. Photo: During a trial in Ukraine, a witness appears from behind, facing a judge in a small courtroom.
10 October 2024 by Anastasia Zubova
How Ukraine brings to justice private entrepreneurs Who are the people have been prosecuted for economic collaboration over the past three years in Ukraine? Journalist Anastasia Zubova analysed dozens of cases brought before Ukrainian courts since 2022. She identified some trends a [...]
Joseph Boakai, the President of Liberia, is having difficulty choosing the head of the war crimes tribunal. Photo: Boakai delivers a speech.
8 October 2024 by Aaron Weah
Why it is so hard to appoint a director for Liberia’s war crimes court The first eight months of President Joseph Boakai in office has been dramatic in the process of establishing a war crimes court in Liberia. On May 2, the President signed a law creating an Office to establish the War and Economic [...]
Palestine/Israel: what are the recommendations of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in terms of law, and the United Nations resolution to stop and repair the Israeli occupation deemed illegal. Photo: Special session of the UN General Assembly during a vote on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
7 October 2024 by Nada Kiswanson
Palestine-Israel: it’s time to implement a legal roadmap to peace A year after the October 7 attack, the war unleashed in response by Israel is spreading to the whole region. The UN’s World Court (ICJ) delivered in July an Opinion that has been followed, on September 18, by a large majority at t [...]
Crimes against migrants in Tunisia: will the ICC act? Photo: Tunisian President Kaïes Saïed shakes hands with Italian President Giorgia Meloni.
4 October 2024 by Amin Taieb
Crimes against migrants: Tunisia is radicalising, will the ICC act? A few days before October 6 elections, in which Tunisian President Kaïes Saïed is running for a second term, a complaint has been lodged against him at the International Criminal Court. It highlights the clampdown in Tunisia on su [...]
Belarus before the ICC for two complaints - Photo: Riot police arrest a man in a street of Minsk (Belarus).
3 October 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
Suddenly, Belarus wakes up with two complaints before the ICC The legal calm seems over for a country which seemed to escape any form of accountability. On Monday, September 30, Lithuania submitted a referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing Belarus for crimes against oppon [...]
Lundin trial in Sweden - Photo: the defendants and their defence team wait in a corridor near courtroom 34.
1 October 2024 by Olivier Truc
Lundin trial: “How can they believe those reports?” Now the voice of South Sudanese victims is being heard in the big Swedish trial for complicity in war crimes that opened a year ago against two top bosses of the Lundin oil group. The parade of 32 witnesses, which began at the end [...]
Eugène Rwamucyo, a Rwandan doctor accused in France of participating in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda.
1 October 2024 by AFP
Rwamucyo: the eighth Rwandan universal jurisdiction trial opens in France The trial of Eugène Rwamucyo will last four weeks before the Paris Assize Court, where the Rwandan is on trial for genocide and crimes against humanity. The crimes are alleged to have been committed by the doctor in Rwanda thirty [...]
Russia: persecution of LGBT people - Photo: artistic creation by Inna Mosina showing an almost naked woman lying in the middle of a pile of old televisions that have been turned off or whose images are blurred.
30 September 2024 by Maria Koroleva
LGBT people in Russia: searching for an internal enemy On September 12, a Moscow court sentenced two young men, Timur A. and Daniil R., to prison for standing near the window of their apartment without clothes. The case is one of hundreds in Russia, launched under the law to protect “ [...]
Daniil Martynov in Ukraine - Photo: Two armed soldiers pose (thumbs up) in front of the back of a Porsche.
27 September 2024 by Iryna Salii
A Kadyrov brother-in-arms sentenced in Ukraine Twelve vulnerable patients died during three weeks of terror they faced in the first days of the Russian occupation. They died in a Ukrainian psychoneurological hospice under the control of a Russian colonel close to Chechen leade [...]
Trial of Colonel Mejía before the JEP in Colombia.
26 September 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia’s first transitional justice adversarial trial opens A highly symbolic trial opened last week in a small courtroom of a torrid city in north-eastern Colombia. Colonel Hernán Mejía Gutiérrez, an emblematic figure of the “false positives” scandal to most Colombians, stayed silent whil [...]
Bora Colley (ex-Jungler) has surrendered to the authorities in Gambia.
24 September 2024 by Mariam Sankanu
Gambia: why “Jungler” Bora Colley turned himself in after eight years After eight years of exile Bora Colley, a former “Jungler” member of President Yahya Jammeh’s hit squad, last month turned himself in to the Gambia Armed Forces. The event raises several questions, both in terms of border security [...]
The ICC and the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan - Photo: refugees leave Nagorno-Karabakh for Armenia.
23 September 2024 by Franck Petit
ICC: “A preventive measure, not a transitional justice tool for Armenia” Nearly a year ago, Armenia ratified the Rome Statute and became a State party to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This came just after the full invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh by neighbouring Azerbaijan, which led to the force [...]
Mark Freeman - Gangs and transitional justice. Illustration: portrait of Mark Freeman by Benoît Peyrucq.
20 September 2024 by Thierry Cruvellier
Does transitional justice have anything to say on gang violence? In several parts of the world today, it is not war or dictatorship that are the main source of mass violence. It is mafias, gangs, cartels, bandits and pirates; and their modes of crime and violence span from extortion to kidnappi [...]
Mafias, gangs, cartels: mass violence that escapes transitional justice. Illustration: 3 men in hooded sweatshirts are dressed like gang members. In the background, a map of the world.
19 September 2024 by Golnouche K. Barzegar
Mafias, gangs, cartels: mass violence that escapes transitional justice Almost 40% of homicides worldwide are linked to organised crime. According to the 2023 report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), between 2015 and 2021, organised crime caused around 700,000 deaths, a number c [...]