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The country administers justice itself

National courts are the pillars of justice within each country, responsible for applying laws and delivering fair judgments for offenses ranging from civil disputes to the most serious crimes. Their functioning reflects the diversity of legal systems around the world and plays a central role in protecting citizens' rights, maintaining public order, and promoting justice. Justice Info covers the prosecutions and trials conducted before these national courts when they pertain to crimes under international law.

Daniil Martynov in Ukraine - Photo: Two armed soldiers pose (thumbs up) in front of the back of a Porsche.
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A Kadyrov brother-in-arms sentenced in Ukraine

Twelve vulnerable patients died during three weeks of terror they faced in the first days of the Russian occupation. They died in a Ukrainian psychoneurological hospice under the control of a Russian colonel close to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. On September 12, Borodyanskyi District Court found this Russian colonel Daniil Martynov guilty of war crimes […]
By Iryna Salii (In Kyiv, Ukraine / Sudovyi Reporter)
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Trial for treason in Russia. Photo: Russian-American citizen Ksenia Karelina appears behind the glass of the dock in Yekaterinburg (Russia).

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Trial for collaboration in Ukraine. Photo: A Ukrainian woman is tried before a court in Dnipro.

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Gacaca courts in Rwanda. Photo: Denis Bikesha, former director of training, mobilisation and sensibilisation for the gacaca courts in Rwanda after 1994.

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Sexual violence in Ukraine - Photo: Women stand at the door of their apartment building in the city of Lysychansk, a city without electricity and water, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.

Prosecuting sexual violence in Ukraine’s war

Trial of the massacre at Conakry stadium (known as the

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Justice in Kasai, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - Photo: people displaced by the conflict between the local Kamwina Nsapu militia and government forces wait to receive food rations.

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