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At the Kosovo Tribunal (based in The Hague in the Netherlands), Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli and Rexhep Selimi are on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Kosovo: tension in the prison over witness protection

Prosecutors in the war crimes trial against former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi accused him and two of his co-defendants of attempting to “obstruct the proceedings” by revealing the identities of protected witnesses and trying to interfere with their testimony. On November 17 they asked the Kosovo Specialist Chambers for stricter detention measures for the three […]

By Margherita Capacci (our correspondent in The Hague)

Trial of Bai Lowe in Germany for crimes committed in the Gambia (universal jurisdiction)

“Someone had to sacrifice themselves”

Ukrainian soldiers surrender to the Russian army in Mariupol (Ukraine) in April 2022.

In Donetsk, over 100 Ukrainian soldiers sentenced in four months

Bai Lowe is on trial in Germany for crimes committed in the Gambia. - Photo: Lowe enters the courtroom accompanied by police officers.

“Bai Lowe tried to make amends for something beyond repair”

Oumar Sanoh, a witness at the trial in Conakry (Guinea), is a former Chief of General Staff of the Guinean armed forces.

Guinea massacre trial: it’s time for the witnesses

Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is under pressure over the Palestine issue.

Palestine: the ICC Prosecutor under pressure

Thaçi trial in The Hague: the former president of Kosovo is on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Thaçi trial between a rock and a hard place

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and his brother Maher are being prosecuted in France for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Assad brothers charged with complicity in crimes against humanity

In Guinea, defendants in the 28 September trial escape. Photo: Guinean security forces set up a roadblock in Kaloum, near Conakry, where the prisoners are being held during their trial.

Guinea stadium massacre: jailbreak undermines the trial

Aleksandr Krasnoyartsev: a Russian pilot captured in Ukraine, exchanged with Russia and then tried in Ukraine in absentia (in the absence of the accused) for war crimes.

One year after being exchanged, a Russian pilot sentenced in Chernihiv

Highly diplomatic transfer of Fulgence Kayishema from South Africa - Photo: Serge Brammertz speaks to the press.

What's happening in the Kayishema case?

Russian prisoners of war exchanged for Ukrainian POWs - Photo: russian soldiers holding flags.

Russian soldiers exchanged with Ukraine: what happens after

Hearings resume in the 28 September trial in Conakry (Guinea). Photo: Magistrates enter the courtroom.

Conakry massacre trial resumes

Why Argentina prosecutes crimes in Venezuela

Trial of Russian military officers in Ukraine - Buildings of the Ivankiv District Court seen from the outside.

Trials of Russian military officers continue in Ivankiv

Trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes committed in Darfur, Sudan. Photo: Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman enters the courtroom in The Hague.

ICC First Darfur case: “I am not Ali Kushayb”

Angelina Dovbnya was tried and jailed for life for high treason in Ukraine. Photo: She takes a selfie in a lift.

"I did not pledge allegiance to this country"

Mokom case at the ICC: a fiasco - Photo: Maxime Jeoffroy Eli Mokom Gawaka, from the Central African Republic, on trial for crimes committed in the Central African Republic, talks to his lawyers in a courtroom at the International Criminal Court in The Hague (Netherlands).

The Mokom fiasco at the ICC

Air strike on Gaza

Bitter law in Palestine