Bangladesh: a new flawed justice system? (Part 2)

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...

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Bangladesh: a new flawed justice system? (Part 1)

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...

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What’s wrong with ICC prosecutors?

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...

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Sudan: bringing to justice those who make the war possible

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...

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20 years of the African Court: “States’ support is slow in coming”

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.

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The War Crimes Experience of an Australian

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

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Tunisia’s transition goes off the rails

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...

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ICJ: Can Kinshasa’s latest case against Kigali be successful?

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 ...

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ICC: justice as message, or justice as Messiah?

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...

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Will Kenya prosecute crimes perpetrated in neighboring Sudan?

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...

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Kosovo’s Special Court: between justice and distrust

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...

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Facing the threat of annexation in Palestine

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 ...

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A former Syrian intelligence general convicted in Vienna

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...

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World Cup: searching for the disappeared in Mexico

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...

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Guantánamo’s “legal black hole” remains US headache

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.

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Syria: First Assad in the Cage

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...

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Courts Are Doing Their Part on Climate. But Is Anyone Else?

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 ...

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Tunisia: Bensedrine sentenced to 25 years in prison

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...

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Inside Chernobyl after a drone attack: what can international law do?

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...

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How courts deal with deepfakes and AI?

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...

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Deir ez-Zor, spearhead of the Transitional Justice Spring

Syria has been rocked for the past 15 days by protests calling for transitional justice. This movement, as two Syrian journalists recount, began on June 10 in Deir ez-Zor, which suffered greatly durin...

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Dead Men Walking - Episode 3: Transitional justice (podcast)

In this third episode of “Dead Men Walking”, a podcast produced by the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) in collaboration with Justice Info, we turn our attention to transitional justice.

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Israel’s Military Court for October 7: Abdicating Truth and Justice

On May 11, the Israeli parliament adopted a new law establishing a special military tribunal to prosecute those accused of participating in the atrocities committed on 7 October 2023. It’s a degrading...

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Can and Will There Be Justice in Jerusalem?

On May 11, the Israeli parliament adopted a new law establishing a special military tribunal to prosecute those accused of participating in the atrocities committed on 7 October 2023. It’s a good law,...

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Justice for Tadamon

The arrest two months ago of Amjad Youssef, a renown suspect of the 2013 massacre in Tadamon district, in Syria’s capital city, is part of a broad campaign to bring former regime officials to account....

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Universal Jurisdiction: lessons from Rwanda

Rwanda provides a case of its own when it comes to the use of universal jurisdiction. This podcast helps providing a global picture of the legal landscape. And how it may intersect with a growing excl...

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Colombia’s transitional justice system awaits the presidential election

On June 21 Colombians will decide who is their next president. Both candidates have a tricky past on transitional justice. And neither of their proposals looks convincing on how to stop the armed conf...

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Bangladesh’s war crimes justice turns against journalists

The arrest of two senior journalists for the offence of crimes against humanity has prompted serious concerns about press freedom and judicial overreach by the country’s International Crimes Tribunal.

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Sabine Nolke on the ICC: “That's what you get when the governance of a court is given into the hands of political actors”

On June 8, the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) suspended Prosecutor Karim Khan and decided that a full ASP meeting will decide whether he shoul...

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The Belarus bargaining trap

While the International Criminal Court investigates alleged crimes against humanity committed by Belarus, Aleh Baradzin warns against being fooled by the recent release of political prisoners.

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