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Genocide of the Yazidis - Photo: in Iraq, Yazidi women hold up placards commemorating the invasion of their region by the Islamic State (EI) group in 2014.
26 November 2024 by Chloé Dubois
Yazidi genocide trial to take place in France Two men and a woman, all French nationals and members of the Islamic State group, are for the first time being brought before a French court for genocide. The three are accused of taking part in the extermination of Yazidis and en [...]
Political treaty on the future of the Chagos Islands between the United Kingdom and Mauritius. Photo: The island of Diego Garcia seen from a satellite.
22 November 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
Will the Chagos treaty address the wrongs of the past? In October 2024, the United Kingdom and Mauritius suddenly announced that they had “reached a political agreement on the future” of the Chagos islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean from which around 2,000 Chagossians were fo [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Epicentre hypermarket near Chernihiv (Ukraine) in 2022 after it was bombed by the Russian army. Photo: exterior view of the burnt-out hypermarket.
17 October 2024 by Ksenia Rekun
At the epicentre of environmental damage in Ukraine 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 [...]
Barbed wire fence is pictured at the Lithuanian- Belarusian border in Sadziunai, Lithuania.
11 October 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Lithuania, Belarus and the ICC 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]