In June a Polish court ruled that immunities should not hinder investigation of alleged international crimes by Israeli officials. A move that may pave the way to accountability for Gaza victims in Po...

Latin America has not (so far) yielded to US pressure to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. Venezuela obliged, Ecuador and Colombia are showing signs to please Washington, but Chile and C...

A high-profile case before Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal has raised serious concerns. The risk? That these proceedings appear less as impartial justice than as political retaliation, warn...

Against the backdrop of US sanctions and increasing pressure on the International Criminal Court, how is the ICC dealing with the need to depart from its reliance on US technology? Some key explanatio...

Ukrainian civilian victims of the war with Russia receive no compensation nor benefits from the state. So far, the Ukrainian government has only a draft proposal regarding the payment of a one-time ca...

In this new podcast produced by Asymmetrical Haircuts, espionage, torture, trial and escape unfold in the extraordinary case of two former Syrian officers convicted in Austria for crimes committed und...

On September 22, Donald Trump called all members of the International Criminal Court to withdraw from the treaty. This summer, the US has renewed its vow to dismantle the ICC. Some states have recentl...

Former Central African rebel Mahamat Said was found guilty of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court on September 23. And not guilty of war crimes. The trial, the last Central Afr...

Early November, judicial leaders from around the world will meet in Grand Cayman to talk about the wellbeing of those delivering justice. Every instrument so far counts judges only. In atrocity crimes...

Following the first convictions of high-level figures of the Assad regime in August, human rights activist Sana Kikhia says civil society must step out of the ‘all or nothing’ trap and navigate speed,...

September 18 marks 25 years since Eritrea’s iron-fisted regime arbitrarily arrested critical politicians and journalists, never to be heard of again. A new UN report points to three decades of crimes ...

In a much-anticipated verdict, Hashim Thaçi and three other former Kosovo guerrilla leaders were found guilty of war crimes by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers on September 16. We look back at 10 years ...

Clarifying a “vague” first instance judgment on the special sanction against seven former high-ranking rebels: this was the stated aim of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace’s Appeals Section in Colomb...

In a little noted decision, judges at the ICC reluctantly accepted the prosecutor’s decision not to continue with its attempts to prosecute Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain (Banda), now a general in the...

In this latest podcast, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts explore key international justice issues, including US sanctions on the ICC President and the death of former Bosnian Serb Army commander ...

In August 2026, almost fifty years since the original inquest found no one to blame for his death, an inquest into the murder of anti-apartheid activist Stephen Bantu Biko re-opened at the High Court ...

The reactions to Ratko Mladić’s death reflect the deep polarization of Serbian society. The divide, however, is not only between those who consider him innocent or guilty, but between supporters of th...

In this fifth episode of « Dead Men Walking », a podcast produced by the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) in collaboration with Justice Info, we discuss international aid, in countries in t...

Having convicted several Russian and Ukrainian nationals of the crime of aggression between 2014 and 2022, the Ukrainian courts have refined the definition and scope of this crime in order to comply w...

For the lawyers of Global Sumud Flotilla, national investigations opened in Europe and the ICC communication following the arrests of activists sailing to Gaza “form part of broader moves for accounta...

Mid-August, South African judges delivered a magistral lesson in environmental justice and sent Shell oil plans in the Wild Coast packing. Their judgment is a milestone, argue the author, that puts cl...

After more than four years of conflict, Ukrainians affected by the war have not received any compensation yet. But a reparations mechanism is slowly getting into place with the Register of damage, whi...

The fourth trial at the Special Criminal Court begins its closing arguments on Monday August 31. Before the conclusion of hearings on June 11, Edmond Beina and Dieudonné Gomitoua traded accusations ov...

According to Lithuania, Lukashenko’s regime facilitates the smuggling of migrants from Belarus. The International Court of Justice has yet to rule on these allegations, but this case highlights severa...

Ratko Mladić, the former commander of the Republika Srpska army, died on Thursday in The Hague, aged 84. After 16 years on the run, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia senten...

In June, Kenya has started a 13 million euro programme to compensate the victims of police brutality during political unrest that took place between 2017 and 2025. But families of the victims are call...

Two victim’s funds were established in 2022 in the DRC. The Frivao, funded by reparations payments from Uganda, as ordered by the International Court of Justice. The Fonarev, funded on mining royaltie...

The Kamuina Nsapu armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo took place ten years ago. But in Kasai FONAREV, the public body in charge of reparations for victims, is coming increasingly under ...

Five years on, the Kasai Central Truth Commission (CPVJR) is still only at the start of its operational phase. It lacks funding, and the Congolese state is absent.

Despite several reforms to adapt Bangladesh’s justice system to international standards, the country’s International Crimes Tribunal is using the same flawed laws, sometimes even worse, than those app...

Despite several reforms to adapt Bangladesh’s justice system to international standards, the country’s International Crimes Tribunal is using the same flawed laws, sometimes even worse, than those app...

The first three prosecutors of the International Criminal Court have failed to be of high moral character. On July 24, the ICC Assembly of State Parties is meant to decide on the fate of Karim Khan. A...

With Sudan’s war now in its fourth year, not a single person has been prosecuted for crimes committed since April 2023. Three recent initiatives are seeking to fill that gap by tracing the chain of re...

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, based in Arusha (Tanzania), is 20 years old and remains largely unknown and under-used compared to its European and Inter-American counterparts.

Graham Blewitt on nearly 40 decades working on war crimes prosecutions, at the international and domestic level. What’s the legacy?

On June 25, former Tunisian Truth Commission chair Sihem Ben Sedrine was sentenced to 25 years in prison and a colossal fine. This is a sign that the country’s democratic transition has come off track...

For the third time in a quarter century, Kinshasa has brought a case against Kigali to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Will they be third time lucky, after twice failing to get their ...

Should the ICC be included on the World Heritage List? That is virtually what was suggested by the Hague Court Presidency when it “recalled”, on June 9, 2026, that it “is one of the most significant a...

In this latest podcast in their series on universal jurisdiction, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts turn their attention to Kenya, where a complaint has been filed regarding war crimes committed i...

As the Kosovo’s Special Court have just postponed the verdict on former President Hasim Thaçi and three other leaders, until 16 September, many Kosovars remain highly skeptical about its mission and l...

Israel’s colonisation of the West Bank is at the heart of proceedings before international courts. Law professor Sharon Weill analyses the past and current political dynamics in Israel, where part of ...

Khaled Al-Halabi, a former senior military intelligence officer under the al-Assad regime, thought he had found refuge in Vienna. On Monday 7 July, he was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for to...

As Mexico hosts its last match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, on Monday 6 July, the families of the missing continue to search for their loved ones around the Guadalajara stadium. Yet, the “sportswashing...

As the United States marks 250 years of independence, and more than 24 years after the Guantánamo Bay US military prison in Cuba was opened, 15 detainees remain there.

Last week in Damascus, the trial of Wassim Assad kicked off on Wednesday June 24, just after a third hearing in the Atef Najib case, and just before the opening of another trial against the former Gra...

On 25 June 2026, a Paris court ruled that Total Energies must account for the emissions produced when its clients burn its oil and gas. The question is whether legislators will also do their part for ...

The former chair of the Tunisian Truth Commission (IVD), Sihem Bensedrine, was sentenced in the early hours of Friday 16 June to a total of 25 years’ imprisonment for several cases relating to transit...

On February 14, 2025, a Russian drone struck Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, near the fourth reactor destroyed in 1986. What’s nuclear safety in wartime? Journalist Oksana Rekun went to Chern...

Whilst the challenges faced by judges when dealing with visual evidence are becoming more complex, but « it’s not a new phenomenon, manipulation has always been around », says professor Yvonne McDermo...