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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.

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 against humanity and murders during the mass protests of summer 2024. However, there are fears that politicisation may mar the accountability process.

By David Bergman (for Justice Info)

In Syria, after the fall of Assad, the search for the disappeared often begins in mass graves. Photo: People digging at the bottom of a deep mass grave while children watch from above.

Syria: getting it right in the search for the disappeared

Enforced disappearances in Ukraine - The mother of the missing Andrii Shapoval shows a video of her son on her phone.

Enforced disappearance in Ukraine: Andrii’s mother's tortured path

Justice for Syria and the International court of Justice (ICJ) - Photo: a poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the streets of Damascus.

Why isn’t the ICJ bolder on Syria?

In Guatemala, family members who were victims of enforced disappearances celebrate the verdict in a trial in Belgium.

A Belgian court provides hope for justice in Guatemala

Looking for the missing in Ukraine - Ukrainian rescuers after the destruction of a residential building in Dnipro (Ukraine) by a missile strike.

Looking for the missing in Ukraine

Belarusian Yuri Harauski acquitted after Swiss trial

In surprise move, Swiss court acquits Belarusian of enforced disappearances

Yuri Harauski on trial in Switzerland for enforced disappearances in Belarus

Belarus “hit squad” member on trial in Switzerland for enforced disappearances

Human rights and transitional justice in the Maldives - Photo of a paradise beach with an image of a demonstration against the enforced disappearance of Ahmed Rilwan.

Justice in paradise

Enforced disappearances: Germany seeks its place in international law - A relative of Syrian victims demonstrates outside the Koblenz court.

Enforced disappearances and the German contradiction

Enforced disappearances in Turkey -

Enforced disappearances in Turkey continue under Erdogan

Enforced disappearances in The Gambia - Photos of people who disappeared during Yahya Jammeh's reign.

The disappeared in The Gambia, a missing investigation

In Argentina, a man is dragged on the ground by the military

Argentina’s Ultimate Rendez-Vous with Justice

A priest and musicians celebrate a mass in memory of 3 victims of enforced disappearances in Guatemala in the 1980s.

Universal jurisdiction: what can Belgian justice bring for Guatemalan victims?

Grave of a missing and unidentified person in Colombia (inscription:

In Colombia, the end of a mother’s 20-year quest for a missing daughter

Different figures (tens of thousands) of forced disappearances in Colombia. In the background, silhouette of an unknown face.

What’s behind the numbers of disappeared in the Colombian armed conflict?

Kamel Matmati

Tunisia: glimmers of hope in the Matmati trial