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Ruslan Glotov, a separatist fighter (in 2014) poses with 2 other soldiers in front of a car.

Ukraine: a 2014 separatist combatant gets caught in the 2022 war

Separatist combatants from Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine are regularly tried before Ukrainian courts. Ruslan Glotov was one of them back in 2014. In March 2022, he was identified while enlisted to go and fight with the Ukrainian army against Russia. He claimed he had been rehabilitated, but on December 9, he was sentenced […]

By Kateryna Trokhymchuk

Kevin Jon Heller holds a book in his hands (he is the co-author):

Everything you need to know or argue about a special tribunal on Russia’s crime of aggression

Voting session in the Sami Parliament of Finland

In Finland, Sámi rights take central stage in national politics

Map of Ukraine with Ukrainian flag inside and 2 icons : a tank symbolizing war and a scale symbolizing justice

Map of war crimes trials in Ukraine

2 elderly people demonstrate (holding up pictures of Franco's victims), in the streets of Madrid (Spain)

Democratising and decolonising Spain: the limits of the new law on memory

20th session (in 2021) of the Assembly of the States Parties (ASP) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague (Netherlands).

Can 2023 be the booster year for the ICC budget?

Tatiana Nezelenikova is in the dock, accused of high treason in Crimea by a Ukrainian court.

High treason in Crimea: "I don’t understand why I’m punished so severely"

Colonel aviator Peter Tankink and Dutch Defense Minister Ank Bijleveld hold a press conference in The Hague on November 2019, about the deadly attack by a Dutch F-16 on Hawija, Iraq, in 2015.

Hawija: from remote warfare to distant justice

War Crimes in Bosnia - A woman walks among the graves of the Potocari cemetery in Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Time is running out for war crimes prosecution in Bosnia

Ukrainian judge Volodymyr Pavlov delivers his verdict on a case of sexual violence during the war in Ukraine

First sentence for sexual violence in the Ukraine war

Global warming - Fire in a coniferous forest in Siberia (Russia)

COP 27: When Russian activists dare to take the Kremlin to court

Drawing of Kunti Kamara during his conviction for crimes against humanity in France

Liberian Kunti Kamara convicted in France for crimes against humanity

Ruined buildings in Mariupol (Ukraine)

Ukraine: why states are storming the ICJ

In Marioupol, Ukraine, a woman carries her child in her arms in the street. Behind her, Russian soldiers are patrolling. In the background: destroyed civilian buildings.

UN commission on Ukraine crimes “will seek to identify persons and entities” responsible

Tetyana Drobot cries in the dock during her trial in Ukraine

Ukraine: From "classroom" to prison - one click

Pencil drawing of a courtroom in Paris, in the trial of Kunti Kamara, for crimes committed in Liberia. Another Liberian (living in Switzerland), Alieu Kosiah, was called to testify.

Liberian case in France: "too complicated to be tried by whites"

Baboucar

Gambian trial in Germany: I posed as a “Jungler”, defendant says

Trial of Roman Serhiyovych Zhmarev in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine.

Ukraine: Trial of an ordinary citizen betrayed by his phone

Is there a right methodology to document war crimes in Myanmar, Syria, Iraq or Ukraine?