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Following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine, grain silos were flooded in Kherson. Ukrainian justice speaks of ecocide.

Kakhovka dam: Ukraine pioneers prosecution for ecocide

The scale of ecological disaster triggered on June 6 by the explosion of Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam, located on a Russian-occupied stretch of the Dnieper River, makes this an exemplary case for prosecuting environmental crimes. The Ukrainian prosecutor swiftly started a major investigation into war crimes and ecocide. This is one of 194 such investigations […]

By Franck Petit

Launch of the ICPA (International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine) in The Hague, Netherlands.

The ICPA, new kid on the block in the world capital of international justice

Azov trial in Russia - The Azovstal plant in Ukraine, partially destroyed by military clashes between the Azov regiment and Russian armed forces.

The low-level and controversial trial of the Azov regiment in Russia

At his trial for high treason in Odessa, Mykolaïv district prosecutor Gennadyi Herman receives eggs thrown by the victims' families in the audience.

A chief prosecutor, a Telegram account and the memory of a deadly strike

Ukraine-Russia: border post seen from Ukraine.

In Sumy, a Ukrainian mayor is on trial for high treason

Ukraine - The Nova Kakhovka dam after its destruction

A dam in Ukraine and the question of ecocide

The credibility of witnesses was at the heart of the Hategekimana trial. Accused of genocide in Rwanda, he was on trial in France. Verdict: life imprisonment.

Hategekimana proves classic Rwandan case

In Rostov-on-Don (Russia), European soldiers involved with the Ukraine are being indicted by the Russian judiciary in a trial in which they are accused of being mercenaries.

Rostov-on-Don, the city where Russia tries Ukrainian fighters – and foreigners

The children of genocide in Rwanda - Hategekimana trial / France Manier in France

I was 10 years old in Rwanda in 1994 and now a prosecution witness

Trial in Ukraine of Mykola Fomenko, accused of high treason. He is shown on a television screen during his trial (he was filmed at the time).

GPS and pepper: rare trial of a Ukrainian “strike corrector”

Universal jurisdiction - Overview of a session at the French National Assembly

Universal Jurisdiction: movement to end the French exception?

Alieu Kosiah was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at his trial in Switzerland.

Appeals court convicts Liberian Alieu Kosiah of crimes against humanity

Stanisic and Simatovic trial - The 2 war criminals Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at their appeal trial in The Hague (UN-IRMCT).

After 30 years, the UN court’s last verdict on former Yugoslavia

Genocide in Rwanda - At the Hategekimana trial in Paris (France), Rwandan priest Hormisdas Nsengimana was called as a witness.

Controversial priest dodges in Hategekimana trial

Philippe Hategekimana (or Philippe Manier / former Rwandan gendarme) at his trial in Paris, France.

Hategekimana trial: former Rwandan soldiers have memory gaps

Pavlo Zaporozhets: a Ukrainian prisoner tried for

Inside the Russian trial of a Ukrainian accused of “international terrorism”

Crimes against Yazidis - Kurds demonstrate in the Netherlands in support of the Yezidis and Christians of Iraq, victims of Islamic State violence.

Netherlands to open first trial on crimes against Yazidis

Andriy Domansky, Ukrainian lawyer working on sensitive cases in Ukraine.

Domansky, a lawyer of “principle” in time of war

Operation Condor - Trial of Jorge Néstor Troccoli in Italy.

Operation Condor: what to expect from the second trial in Rome