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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, [...]
5 February 2021 by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian and Yazidi trials: why victims’ lawyers want sexual violence considered Two landmark trials in Germany have been dealing with crimes against humanity and genocide allegedly committed in Syria and Iraq. So far, they have not focused on sexual and gender-based violence. Civil party lawyers in both Koble [...]
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 [...]
5 January 2021 by Olfa Belhassine
Gilbert Naccache, a Crystal memory Jewish political dissident Gilbert Naccache long suffered repression and anti-Semitic attacks from the authorities and his fellow Tunisians. This left-wing activist, a former political prisoner and considered by some to be "a monu [...]
4 January 2021 by Julia Crawford
Australia launches unprecedented war crimes probe The new Office of the Special Investigator is to start work on January 4. Its job is to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan. No member of the Australian armed forces has been prosec [...]
14 December 2020 by Bronwen Cowley
Koblenz, the first Syrian state crimes trial in Europe IN CAMERA | Episode 1 Koblenz, central Germany. This is the first state torture trial for Syria. This is also the first episode of Justice Info’s new IN CAMERA series. Every month, we’ll be bringing you a short video to tell the g [...]
10 December 2020 by Antoine Harari
Kosiah: “You can jail me for a thousand years, I fear no one!” The long-awaited trial of former Liberian warlord Alieu Kosiah began this week in the southern Swiss town of Bellinzona with questioning of the accused. According to the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland, where he has [...]
4 December 2020 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Central African Republic: Constitutional Court says no to war crimes suspects The Constitutional Court of the Central African Republic has dashed the hopes of former president François Bozizé and a dozen other members of armed groups. Their candidacies in the 27 December elections were invalidated. Bozizé, [...]
3 December 2020 by Antoine Harari
Trial of Liberian Alieu Kosiah opens in Switzerland Alieu Kosiah, a former Liberian warlord, is the first person to be tried in Switzerland for war crimes before a civil court. His trial has been repeatedly postponed. It opens on 3 December in Bellinzona in a tense atmosphere, afte [...]
26 November 2020 by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian trial in Germany: The orders that came from the very top In the Al-Khatib trial against two former secret service officers from Syria, a witness has provided confidential documents issued by the Syrian regime. They would prove that crimes were ordered from the highest government level – [...]
24 November 2020 by Claude Sengenya and Ephrem Rugiririza
Sheka gets life in jail in landmark Congolese judgment On 23 November, Congolese military justice sentenced former militia leader Ntabo Ntaberi, alias Sheka, to life for war crimes. This is a major success for victims in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, especially women.
19 November 2020 by Ephrem Rugiririza
Belgium: the money changer, the militiaman and the Rwandan academic There have been a series of arrests in Europe in recent months of Rwandans accused of participating in the 1994 genocide. After Félicien Kabuga in France, three people were arrested in Belgium in October and another one in the Net [...]
12 November 2020 by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian torture trial: the “Caesar” files in court for the first time Last week in Koblenz, the renowned “Caesar” files were used as evidence in a court of law, for the first time. A forensic expert testified in the Al-Khatib trial, after having analysed the dead bodies in more than 50,000 photos. H [...]
5 November 2020 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
FARC revelations on three political murders: a test for Colombia The former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia dropped a bombshell, last month, claiming responsibility over the murders of three high-profile public officials in the 1990s. As missing truths begin emerging, they’re testing whe [...]
3 November 2020 by Ephrem Rugiririza
In DRC, reparations still a dream for victims of mass crimes In a country riddled with corruption, Congolese military justice appears to have set an example by convicting soldiers found guilty of serious crimes. This is nevertheless marred by failure to implement reparation orders, accordin [...]
29 October 2020 by Hannah El-Hitami
The Yazidi trial in Germany: How to prove genocide in a single case? Little attention has been paid to a trial in Germany that could yet be the first to recognize as genocide the crime committed by Daesh against Iraq’s Yazidis. With one eyewitness, no dead body and a previous conviction in Iraq, th [...]
16 October 2020 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombians pressure FARC into admitting child soldiers Last month, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace – known as JEP – has decided to allow public preliminary hearings. This has helped former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to be more forthcoming about the [...]
15 September 2020 by Hannah El-Hitami
Syria: a spotlight on a bureaucracy of mass killings A Syrian government employee has testified anonymously, last week in the Al-Khatib trial in Koblenz (Germany), where two former secret service officers stand accused of crimes against humanity. He described vast mass graves, and d [...]
11 September 2020 by Gabriel Labrador
Spain rules on the murders of Jesuits in Salvador The verdict came in the afternoon of September 11th. Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano, 77, a former Salvadoran Deputy Minister of Public Security, was found guilty of murdering six Jesuit priests, a cook and her daughter on 16 Nov [...]