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A Swedish documentary film shows Ian Lundin in Sudan surrounded by armed child soldiers. The footage was used in the trial of Swedish company Lundin Oil in Sweden.
How Lundin’s filmed trip in Sudan backfired in court
6 February 2025 by Martin Schibbye (in Stockholm, Sweden)
This Tuesday February 4, Alexandre Schneiter’s interrogation has started in Stockholm, where two former directors of the Swedish oil company Lundin are tried for complicity in war crimes in Sudan. Before him, until last week, his [...]
Central African Republic - Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred Rhombot Yekatom before the International Criminal Court (ICC): what sentences could they face? Last words in the Yekatom and Ngaïssona trial
13 January 2025 by Janet H. Anderson (our correspondent in The Hague)
It is four years that Alfred Rhombot Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona have been on trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Central African Republic [...]
Trial for the recruitment of child soldiers in Colombia. Photo: Judge Lily Rueda of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) announces the indictment of former FARC leaders. FARC leadership accused of war crimes over child soldiers
21 November 2024 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano (our correspondent in Colombia)
The phenomenon of child soldiers was historically a less visible crime to Colombians than kidnapping. It is now at the centre of the second indictment by Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) against the leadership of fo [...]
Victim of militias in 2003 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ruth Biangire was able to benefit from the help of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: Ruth Biangire poses in her store, where she sells petrol in cans and bottles. ICC/DRC: Reparations leave victims feeling sore (2/2)
9 September 2024 by Claude Sengenya (our special envoy in Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo)
After the village of Bogoro, in the Ituri region of north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, our correspondent went to Bunia to interview other beneficiaries of the International Criminal Court’s Trust Fund for Victims. These a [...]
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Report from Thomas Kwoyelo's birthplace in Uganda, with his family. Photo: Kwoyelo's relatives in front of the house where he lived as a child.
6 February 2024 by Grace Matsiko (our special envoy in Acut Cama Ceri, Uganda)
“Kwoyelo was born and grew up here” “I don’t know what interest government has in my son, not to release him,” Thomas Kwoyelo’s mother tells Justice Info in his home village of Acut Cama Ceri, nestled in tall, overgrown savanna in northern Uganda. The mother of the [...]
Grave of a missing and unidentified person in Colombia (inscription:
7 June 2022 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
In Colombia, the end of a mother’s 20-year quest for a missing daughter Arnobia Gutiérrez’s quest is about to finally come to an end as soon as she receives, in a solemn ceremony, the remains of her daughter Natalia who had been missing for 20 years after she was recruited as a child by the ELN guerri [...]
Drawing of Alieu Kosiah during his trial in Switzerland
8 March 2021 by Antoine Harari
Judgment awaited in Alieu Kosiah war crimes trial The trial of former Liberian rebel fighter Alieu Kosiah ended on March 5 in Switzerland. Accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the early 1990s in Liberia, Kosiah denied being present at the time of the eve [...]