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23 February 2021 by Thierry Cruvellier

Massaquoi trial: Finnish court goes to deepest Liberia Arriving in Liberia on February 15, Finnish judges, prosecutors, and lawyers spent their first week visiting sites where Gibril Massaquoi, a former rebel commander from Sierra Leone, allegedly committed crimes against humanity. Th [...]

Massaquoi's trial (Frontpage Africa newspaper)

1 February 2021 by Thierry Cruvellier

Universal jurisdiction: the Finnish revolution The trial of Gibril Massaquoi opens today in Finland, hardly two years after the opening of an investigation into this former Sierra Leonean warlord. It has been done in record time and is a revolution in universal jurisdiction, a [...]

6 September 2019 by Franck Petit

Finland to set up Truth Commission for the Sami people The Sami people have lived since early times in the vast northern territories of Scandinavia, where some still make a living from herding reindeer and from fishing. Like the indigenous people of Canada and other big democracies, [...]