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Portrait of Vincent Lurquin: lawyer specialising in international justice (practising in Belgium), with a particular focus on the crimes committed in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.

Vincent Lurquin: "having the humanity to defend someone accused of the worst crimes"

For once, we meet Vincent Lurquin outside the courtroom. Without his robe but with the same debonair air that characterises him, the lawyer shares with us his thoughts on the way justice is dispensed in cases relating to the genocide in Rwanda. After 25 years of defending accused persons or representing victims, and before his […]

By Gaëlle Ponselet (our correspondent in Belgium)

Gambia - Sonko trial in Switzerland - Photo: Swiss federal court in Bellinzona

Gambian trial starts in Switzerland for crimes against humanity

Alvaro Leyva, Colombia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, is enigmatically opposed to certain transitional justice mechanisms in Colombia.

Colombia: a minister's enigmatic attacks on transitional justice

Rwandan Séraphin Twahirwa sentenced to life imprisonment in Belgium for his involvement in the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

Belgium: life sentence, notably for rape, for a Rwandan

Tunisia and justice for Palestine - Photo: Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed holds a Tunisian flag (image of justice behind him).

Gaza: why Tunisia has not referred the situation to the ICC

The former President of Suriname, Desi Bouterse, speaks out following his conviction in an appeal trial.

Ex-president Bouterse definitively sentenced in Suriname

At a trial in France, a Rwandan doctor (Sosthene Munyemana) is convicted of taking part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Munyemana: a Rwandan doctor sentenced to 24 years in prison in France

International Criminal Court (ICC): NGOs and states - Photo: Karim Khan's speech in Cairo.

ICC: why NGOs are concerned, not States

Sonko trial in Switzerland - Photo : Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko at a conference on cluster munitions in Oslo (Norway) in 2008.

Sonko trial: what can we expect from Swiss justice?

Pro-Palestinian demonstration outside UN headquarters in New York.

International Criminal Court at the heart of world disorder

Total Energies oil project in Uganda - Environmental activists demonstrate in Kampala against EACOP.

Total Uganda: 42 families expropriated in a summary trial

Trials behind closed doors - A growing trend in international courts. Photo:

A Silence Epidemic: when real trials are held behind closed doors…

Rwandan Séraphin Twahirwa and his two lawyers, Vincent Lurquin and Juliette Lurquin, at his trial in Belgium. He is on trial for his alleged involvement in the genocide in Rwanda.

"What judicial truth without material evidence?"

Syrians protest outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague (Netherlands).

Syria: a further step against mass crimes?

Lundin trial in Sweden - Ian Lundin arrives in court on the opening day of the trial in Stockholm. He is suspected of complicity in war crimes in Southern Sudan.

Lundin, the trial that “should never have taken place”

Séraphin Twahirwa at his trial in Belgium for genocide in Rwanda.

"They were founders of a ruthless militia in Kigali"

Ansoumane Camara, known as Baffoé, is a witness in the 28 September trial in Guinea.

Guinea: Baffoé, one witness with two versions

Klaus Hoffman (a German senior prosecutor of the Advisory Group for the Investigation of the Most Serious International Crimes in Ukraine) explains:

Klaus Hoffmann: “The problem of collaborators is not only legal, but also political”

At the end of his trial in Germany, Gambian Bai Lowe was found guilty of crimes against humanity committed in The Gambia.

German court sentences Gambian death squad member to life in prison