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Colonialism and decolonization in Switzerland - Hans Himmelheber poses near his mask collection.

Switzerland: the art of decolonizing a country without colonies

Why does Switzerland, a country that never had any colonies, hold objects inherited from violent conquest? And how are this country and its museums becoming aware, through participation in restitution of cultural property, of their participation in the economy and origins of colonization? These are disturbing questions for Switzerland, which sees itself as neutral, democratic […]

By Letizia Gaja Pinoja

Collaborators in Ukraine - Police officers take oath in front of the Russian authorities in Ghenichesk, near Kherson (occupied zone).

Collaboration in occupied Kherson: “As a decent daughter I went breaking the law”

War crimes in Ukraine - Investigators from the French Gendarmerie's Institute of Criminal Research (IRCGN) examine a body in a tent after its exhumation from a mass grave in Bucha, in cooperation with Ukrainian police.

Yuriy Belousov: “We can’t lose Ukraine’s legal battle”

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

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”