Domestic Court Cases

(Beirut, September 25, 2019) – A close study of appeals court decisions in terrorism-related cases in Iraq shows that judges in close to two dozen cases in an 18-month period appeared to...

The judges of the highest court in the world have started deliberating whether Uganda should pay over $11.4 billion in reparations for armed activities in the Democratic Republic of the...

This week, as commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence approaches its peak, thousands of victims of sexual violence committed during the 2007-08 post-election violence (PEV) in...

By Susan Kendi Courts set up to try people accused of breaking Covid-19-related regulations in the Nairobi area have ordered them to pay fines of up to 10,000 shillings or...

By Susan Kendi A hush has fallen on the International Criminal Court as judges deliberate on the fate the Lord’s Resistance Army commander who was charged with crimes against humanity,...

By Susan Kendi Adecade after the capture of Lord’s Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo, his moribund trial at the International Crimes Division of the High Court in Uganda is an...

By Susan Kendi Inthe final part of JFJ’s three-part interview Chapter Four Uganda activist and former Kwoyelo lawyer Nicholas Opiyo explains that Ugandans have not been numbed by the atrocities...

Liberian citizens called on President George Weah in a video released today by an array of local and international groups to support a war crimes court to bring justice for...

By Thomas Verfuss in The Hague A United Nations appeals chamber on Wednesday sentenced former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic to life in prison. It found that the sentence of...

By Thomas Verfuss There has been a dramatic incident on the very last hearing day of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) which is going to close...