Gambia: Gambian Trial Starts in Switzerland for Crimes Against Humanity

Julia Crawford is a journalist and translator for JusticeInfo.net since June 2015. She is an experienced journalist, editor and journalism trainer, specialized in African affairs… Read more »

Tunisia: Gaza - Why Tunisia Has Not Referred the Situation to the ICC

Olfa Belhassine has been a correspondent in Tunisia for JusticeInfo.net since 2015. After the 2011 Revolution, she published articles about her experience as a journalist during… Read more »

Gambia: Sonko Trial - What Can We Expect From Swiss Justice?

In this podcast produced with Asymmetrical Haircuts, two Justice Info correspondents take the floor. Mariam Sankanu, who is covering the post-Truth Commission period in Gambia. And… Read more »

Rwanda: 'What Judicial Truth Without Material Evidence?'

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Sudan: Lundin, the Trial That 'Should Never Have Taken Place'

The Lundin trial has now reached the end of its thirteenth week, with 90 weeks still to go. Torgny Wetterberg, defending Ian Lundin, on November 29 began his presentation of the… Read more »

Rwanda: 'They Were Founders of a Ruthless Militia in Kigali'

Gaëlle Ponselet, a journalist who has been specializing on judicial news for some 10 years, covers a large number of trials taking place in Brussels, whether they be conflicts… Read more »

Guinea: Guinea - Baffoé, One Witness With Two Versions

Matthias Raynal is a correspondent in Guinea when, on 28 September 2022, a trial opens for mass crimes, the first in the country's history. 13 years earlier, on the same date, more… Read more »

Guinea: Guinea Massacre Trial - It's Time for the Witnesses

Matthias Raynal is a correspondent in Guinea when, on 28 September 2022, a trial opens for mass crimes, the first in the country's history. 13 years earlier, on the same date, more… Read more »

Africa: What's Happening in the Kayishema Case?

Balthazar Nduwayezu (our correspondent in Arusha, Tanzania) Read more »

Guinea: Conakry Massacre Trial Resumes

Matthias Raynal is a correspondent in Guinea when, on 28 September 2022, a trial opens for mass crimes, the first in the country's history. 13 years earlier, on the same date, more… Read more »

Central African Republic: The Mokom Fiasco At the ICC

Janet H Anderson is one of JusticeInfo's correspondents in The Hague. As a freelance journalist she's been covering international justice - Rwanda, The Hague, Sierra Leone, Uganda… Read more »

Africa: The Weak Hope of an ICC Investigation Into Palestine

Janet H Anderson is one of JusticeInfo's correspondents in The Hague. As a freelance journalist she's been covering international justice - Rwanda, The Hague, Sierra Leone, Uganda… Read more »

Sudan: The Swedish Prosecutor Who Challenged Lundin Oil

It was prosecutor Magnus Elving who opened the probe into Swedish oil company Lundin, accused of complicity in war crimes in southern Sudan. He is now retired and following from a… Read more »

Angola: Polarized Reconciliation in Angola

A recent controversial search for victims of former guerilla UNITA's internal purges by the Reconciliation commission has further harmed the work and reputation of the commission.… Read more »

Algeria: General Nezzar Is Weakened, but Not Abandoned By Algiers

"The whole world recognises that Algeria was fighting terrorism, with the exception of the Swiss justice system," said the Algerian foreign minister. He was reacting to… Read more »

Gambia: Why After Four Years Identity of the Exhumed at Army Barracks Remains Unknown?

In four years since the mediatized exhumation of seven bodies in a military camp near Banjul, neither the Truth and Reconciliation commission nor any institution in The Gambia have… Read more »

Rwanda: Final Curtain Falls On Kabuga Trial

It's the end of an era: the last major suspect in the 1994 Rwanda genocide will not be tried by international justice. On August 7, the Appeals Chamber of the international… Read more »

Rwanda: Pierre Basabosé Is 'Mentally Absent' but Will Be Tried

Former Rwandan soldier and businessman Pierre Basabosé is less well known than Félicien Kabuga, whose trial was definitively stopped by a UN court on August 7 because… Read more »

Gambia: The Disappeared in the Gambia, a Missing Investigation

In its recently disclosed implementation plan, the Gambian government says it will set up a task force to complete and expand the work accomplished by the Truth commission on… Read more »

Rwanda: Philippe Hategekimana Makes Final Statement, Then Goes Silent

Former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana, on trial in Paris for genocide and crimes against humanity, briefly restated his position before his final questioning. Yes, he said,… Read more »

Rwanda: Has Trying Kabuga Become Absurd?

There were many objections after the decision by the UN Mechanism in charge of trying Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga to continue the trial through an undefined and… Read more »

Rwanda: I Was 10 Years Old in Rwanda in 1994 and Now a Prosecution Witness

A dozen people who were under 15 in 1994 have testified at the genocide trial of former Rwandan gendarme Philippe Hategekimana before a Paris court. With frozen scenes, lost… Read more »

Central African Republic: Special Court Hands Down First Reparations Decision

After several months of hesitation, the Special Criminal Court on June 16 handed down in Bangui a first reparations decision in its first and only trial. This decision does not… Read more »

South Sudan: ICC - The Never-Ending Nightmare of Darfur's Victims

This is the first trial for serious crimes committed in Darfur. On June 5 in The Hague, the victims' representatives took the floor in the Ali-Kushayb case at the International… Read more »

Rwanda: Kabuga - Heading for a Palliative Trial?

According to his judges, Félicien Kabuga can be tried but not convicted. On June 6, a UN tribunal ruled that the Rwandan, aged 88 (or 90, according to him), is no longer fit… Read more »