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Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, has been arrested in Manila following the issue of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Photo: Duterte delivers a speech in August 2018.
Philippine: Duterte arrested under ICC warrant
11 March 2025 by AFP
In the Philippines, the political battle between the two dynasties that rule the country, the Marcos and Duterte families, seems to be turning in favor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The former president Rodrigo Dutert [...]
Is the International Criminal Court sufficiently involved to try those responsible for the violent police crackdowns on opposition demonstrators in 2024? Photo: Members of the security forces (on motorbikes) arrest a demonstrator in a street in Caracas. The ICC has a chance in Venezuela, it must take it
4 March 2025 by Tamara Taraciuk Broner (for Justice Info)
The option of “positive complementarity” between the International Criminal Court and Venezuelan authorities has shown its limits, argues human rights lawyer Tamara Taraciuk Broner. Now is the time for the ICC prosecutor to take a [...]
In Switzerland, crimes committed against nomadic peoples (Yenish, Sinti and Manouche) have been recognised by the government as ‘crimes against humanity’. Photo: Yenish children play the schwyzerörgeli, a small accordion, in front of a vehicle parked in an encampment. This was a “dark chapter in Swiss history”
28 February 2025 by Julia Crawford (Justice Info)
On February 19, Switzerland admitted it committed a “crime against humanity” in removing thousands of Traveller children from their families over a period of 50 years. Adult Yenish and Sinti people were also victimized. This is th [...]
International law as seen from Israel. Photo: Members of the family of Naor Hassisim (murdered by Hamas on 7 October 2023) at his funeral in Israel. “A just war does not justify all means”
21 February 2025 by Pierre Hazan (for Justice Info)
Yaël Vias Gvirsman is a lawyer specializing in international humanitarian law and is founder of October 7 Justice Without Borders. She represents over 350 victims of Hamas, including 44 mainly Israeli hostages or former hostages, [...]
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In Bangladesh, following the demonstrations in the summer of 2024 that led to mass crimes, the International Crimes Tribunal is back in action to try those responsible. But there are reports of concern about the operation of the local justice system and its politicisation. Photo: Demonstrators, seen against the light, stand on a high structure, one of them waving a Bangladeshi flag.
20 February 2025 by David Bergman (for Justice Info)
The second life of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal Six months after the prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, fled the country, the new interim government has started the process of seeking accountability against politicians and security force officials accused of crimes ag [...]
Osama Almasri Najim was warmly welcomed on his arrival in Libya on an Italian government plane. He had been arrested in Italy following an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
31 January 2025 by Margherita Capacci (our correspondent in The Hague)
Rome defies the ICC Italian head of the government Giorgia Meloni announced, on Tuesday January 28, that she was under investigation following the expulsion of a Libyan man wanted by the International Criminal Court. The man, Osama Najim, is known as [...]
A poster of Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada on a street in Kabul in August 2023. © Wakil Kohsar / AFP
23 January 2025 by AFP
ICC: Prosecutor targets Taliban leaders After the most senior Russian, Israeli, Palestinian and Burmese leaders, it's now the turn of Afghan leaders to be targeted by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Karim Khan is asking the court to issue arres [...]
Central African Republic - Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona and Alfred Rhombot Yekatom before the International Criminal Court (ICC): what sentences could they face?
13 January 2025 by Janet H. Anderson (our correspondent in The Hague)
Last words in the Yekatom and Ngaïssona trial 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 of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (Ali Kushayb) at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He is on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Sudan (Darfur).
19 December 2024 by Margherita Capacci (our correspondent in The Hague)
The first Darfur trial ended at the ICC The first trial at the International Criminal Court for crimes committed in Darfur, Sudan, came to an end, 20 years after the charged crimes. During the closing statements, from 11 to 13 December 2024, the prosecution stated that [...]
Yezidi women demonstrate in Syria to commemorate the fifth anniversary of attacks by the Islamic State (EI) group.
11 December 2024 by AFP
Netherlands: 10 years in prison for enslaving a Yezidi woman This is a crime against humanity, stressed the District Court of The Hague, in the Netherlands, in delivering its verdict on Wednesday 11 December. It sentenced Hasan Aarab, a Dutch citizen, to 10 years' imprisonment for using a Y [...]
The empty courtroom of the International Criminal Court.
3 December 2024 by Margherita Capacci
A court without trials? The reality of today’s situation at the International Criminal Court is that while very high-profile political leaders from different parts of the world are wanted, the only individuals who are actually tried remain mid-level Afri [...]
Myanmar - International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for General Min Aung Hlaing. Photo: The Burmese Head of State standing in uniform in a vehicle during a military parade.
27 November 2024 by AFP
ICC: it's Burma's No. 1's turn After Putin and Netanyahu, it's now the head of Myanmar's military junta, Min Aung Hlaing, who is accused of crimes against humanity by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). On November 27, Karim Khan asked for [...]
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 [...]
Malian Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud is awaiting his verdict at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
20 November 2024 by AFP
ICC: 10-year prison sentence for Al Hassan On November 20, the International Criminal Court (ICC) handed down its sentence on Malian jihadist Al Hassan. The former head of the Islamic police in Timbuktu in 2012 was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity las [...]
Ndélé 1 trial before the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic: the 4 defendants line up at the bar in orange prison garb.
18 November 2024 by Rodrigue le Roi Benga (our correspondent in Bangui, Central African Republic)
Central African Republic: the end of the trial of the four rebels who “did nothing’ The second trial of the Special Criminal Court in Bangui came to an end on Thursday 14 November 2024, after the parties' closing arguments. The verdict will be announced for 13 December 2024 in the so-called “Ndélé 1” case, in whi [...]
Trial in France of Eugène Rwamucyo for complicity in genocide in Rwanda - Photo: Eugène Rwamucyo at the opening of his trial in Paris
30 October 2024 by AFP
Rwamucyo sentenced for complicity in genocide Eugène Rwamucyo, a former Rwandan doctor and teacher, was sentenced to 27 years' imprisonment by a French court on October 30 for complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity. He is the eighth Rwandan to be tried in France f [...]
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 (our correspondent in The Hague)
“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 [...]
Crimes against migrants in Tunisia: will the ICC act? Photo: Tunisian President Kaïes Saïed shakes hands with Italian President Giorgia Meloni.
4 October 2024 by Amin Taieb (reporting from Tunisia)
Crimes against migrants: Tunisia is radicalising, will the ICC act? A few days before October 6 elections, in which Tunisian President Kaïes Saïed is running for a second term, a complaint has been lodged against him at the International Criminal Court. It highlights the clampdown in Tunisia on su [...]
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 (in Vilnius, Lithuania)
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 [...]
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