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26 March 2021 by Julia Crawford
Bachelet denounces continued inaction on Sri Lanka war crimes On Tuesday March 23, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a new resolution on Sri Lanka, including a new mandate and budget to collect evidence of war crimes. This followed a damning report to the Council by the High Co [...]
Kweku Vanderpuye, lead prosecutor in the second Central African trial (ICC)
25 March 2021 by Janet H. Anderson
CAR-II: ICC prosecutor bets to demonstrate plans in a messy civil war Over the last month, the International Criminal Court prosecution has laid out its strategy against two leaders of the Anti-balaka, a Central African Republic group of civil defence militias. The backbone of the accusation is that [...]
Exterior view of the courtroom where a crowd gathered around, in the Nsumbu trial (Kasai / D.R. Congo)
18 March 2021 by Joseph Mbuyi
Judgment day in Kasai The village of Nkongolo Moshi in Kasai Central experienced a new kind of justice on March 16. A military tribunal there concluded the first war crimes trial in this province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Laurent Katende Nsu [...]
Nsumbu trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo
15 March 2021 by Joseph Mbuyi
Accused faces victims in first Kasai war crimes trial On March 10, the war crimes trial of traditional leader Nsumbu, a former militia leader, opened in the Congolese village of Nkongolo Moshi in Kasai Central. This is the first trial for international crimes in this province of the [...]
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 [...]
Massaquoi trial: Drawing of the Finnish prosecutors in Monrovia
5 March 2021 by Thierry Cruvellier
The Massaquoi Trial: Double or quits before a Finnish court The first hearings in Gibril Massaquoi’s trial before a Finnish court temporarily relocated to Liberia have outlined the controversial shape of the case. The prosecution is counting on mass witness testimony, while the defence is [...]
Dessin d'un avocat des victimes dans le procès Kosiah, en Suisse. © Leslie Lumeh
22 February 2021 by Antoine Harari
In Swiss trial, Liberian victims tell chilling tales of Alieu Kosiah The trial of Alieu Kosiah, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, resumed on February 15 in Switzerland. Six of the seven plaintiffs took the stand to give chilling accounts of crimes they say were committed by the for [...]
Syrian civilian riding his bike through the street near the remains of a car bomb explosion
11 February 2021 by Lena Bjurström
Sweden on the frontline with Syria cases From the first war crimes trial to the first conviction of a government soldier, Sweden has been a pioneer in Europe in the prosecution of crimes committed in Syria. Today, the Swedish Public Prosecutor's Office remains a leader, [...]
Julieta Lemaitre (JEP -
2 February 2021 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
A first in Colombia: eight FARCs charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity Last Thursday, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace announced its first major decision, accusing eight top leaders of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia of war crimes and crimes against humanity, in what has be [...]
Lundin
26 October 2018 by Julia Crawford
Lundin faces prosecution for Sudan oil war abuses Sweden’s government has given the green light for the Public Prosecutor to charge two top executives of the Stockholm-based Lundin Petroleum company for assisting suspected crimes against humanity in Sudan between 1997 and 2003 by [...]