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Israel on trial at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). South Africa accuses Israel of committing genocide against the people of Palestine.

Israel on Trial

The International Court of Justice will deliver today its order on urgent provisional measures requested by South Africa against Israel on the situation in Palestine. Professor Sharon Weill unwraps the parties' arguments and the many political issues behind their legal strategies. And shed more light on what the judges will decide.

By Sharon Weill (for Justice Info)

Witness hearings end in Sonko’s trial

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Sonko trial in Switzerland - Photo : Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko at a conference on cluster munitions in Oslo (Norway) in 2008.

Sonko trial: what can we expect from Swiss justice?

Total Energies oil project in Uganda - Environmental activists demonstrate in Kampala against EACOP.

Total Uganda: 42 families expropriated in a summary trial

Rwandan Séraphin Twahirwa and his two lawyers, Vincent Lurquin and Juliette Lurquin, at his trial in Belgium. He is on trial for his alleged involvement in the genocide in Rwanda.

"What judicial truth without material evidence?"

Lundin trial in Sweden - Ian Lundin arrives in court on the opening day of the trial in Stockholm. He is suspected of complicity in war crimes in Southern Sudan.

Lundin, the trial that “should never have taken place”

Séraphin Twahirwa at his trial in Belgium for genocide in Rwanda.

"They were founders of a ruthless militia in Kigali"

Ansoumane Camara, known as Baffoé, is a witness in the 28 September trial in Guinea.

Guinea: Baffoé, one witness with two versions