News updates
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6 September 2023: Amnesty International has published a report containing allegations of war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity committed by members of the Eritrean Defense Forces in Tigray, Ethiopia, between November 2022 and January 2023.
5 September 2023: The Lundin trial commences today at the Stockholm District Court, with Alex Schneiter and Ian Lundin, former executives of the Swedish oil company Lundin Oil, facing charges of complicity in war crimes allegedly committed by Sudanese armed forces and militias between 1999 and 2003 in Sudan.
4 September 2023: The Higher Regional Court of Munich has increased the sentence of ISIS member Jennifer W. from 10 to 14 years for, among others, aiding and abetting crimes against humanity and war crimes committed against a Yazidi woman and her daughter.
1 September 2023: Yuri Harauski, a former member of Aleksandr Lukashenko’s elite special security unit in Belarus, will stand trial in Switzerland on 19-20 September 2023 for his alleged participation in the enforced disappearances of three major political opponents of the regime in 1999.
31 August 2023: The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has filed an indictment against Khaled Nezzar, former Algerian minister of defence, for war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed between January 1992 and January 1994 in the context of the Algerian civil war.
30 August 2023: The Supreme Court of Chile has confirmed the conviction of seven former Chilean military officers for the aggravated kidnapping and murder of the singer Víctor Jara and of Littré Quiroga during Pinochet's dictatorship, recognizing that the offences amounted to crimes against humanity.
28 August 2023: The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has ruled that two former Israeli military commanders, including former minister of defence Benny Gantz, enjoy immunity from civil proceedings with regards to an airstrike launched by the Israeli Defence Forces on the Gaza Strip during the 2014 Gaza Conflict.
23 August 2023: The International Court of Justice will hold public hearings on the preliminary objections raised by the Russian Federation in the case concerning Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation) from Monday 18 to Wednesday 27 September 2023, in which 32 States will intervene.
22 August 2023: The hearing on the confirmation of charges in the case The Prosecutor v. Maxime Jeoffroy Eli Mokom Gawaka has commenced today at the International Criminal Court.
18 August 2023: The Federal Oral Court of Santa Fe, Argentina, has condemned former lieutenant colonel Alberto Jaime to life imprisonment for the murder of a Peronist activist during Videla’s dictatorship, which was recognized to amount to a crime against humanity.
New cases, briefs and videos
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NEW VIDEO: A new video is available online. On 22 June 2023, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut organised in cooperation with the IHCL Platform this Supranational Criminal Law (SCL) lecture, titled "The road to justice: Lessons for Ukraine from the USSR invasion of Afghanistan" featuring Victoria Kerr, Nader Nadery, UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett and Dr. Dmytro Koval. The video is available here.
NEW BRIEF: A new ICD brief is available on the International Crimes Database, titled: "Ëcocide: The Environment as Victim at the International Criminal Court", authored by Dr. Giovanna Frisso. This brief is part of the ICD Ecocide Brief Series.
NEW CASE: Case analysis of the appeals judgment in the Eshetu Alemu case (The Hague Court of Appeal, June 2022) is now online. It can be accessed here.
NEW VIDEO: A new video is available online. On 14 December 2022, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut organised this Supranational Criminal Law (SCL) lecture, titled “Environmental harm and international criminal law” featuring Matthew Gillett, Rosario Salvatore Aitala, Larissa van den Herik, Daniëlla Dam-de Jong and Stavros Evdokimos Pantazopoulos. The video is available here.
NEW BRIEF: A new ICD Brief is available on the International Crimes Database entitled: "Prosecution of Ecocide as a Weapon in Armed Conflict: Reflections on Crimea", by Prof. Borys Babin and Dr. Oleksii Plotnikov. This Brief is part of the ICD Ecocide Brief Series.
NEW BRIEF: A new ICD Brief is available on the International Crimes Database entitled "Ecocide and the End of the Anthropocene: An Ecocentric Critique of the (Failed) Developments of an International Crime of Ecocide", by Clémentine Dècle-Classen. This Brief is part of the ICD Ecocide Brief Series.
NEW BRIEF: A new ICD Brief is available on the International Crimes Database entitled "The Crime of Ecocide Through Human Rights: A New Tool for Climate Justice", by Lisa Oldring and Kate Mackintosh. This Brief is part of the ICD Ecocide Brief Series.
