Speaking at the panel on "#Peace 🕊️, #democracy and #internationallaw ⚖️", he presented a strategy behind a court challenge in #Slovakia 🇸🇰 based on #universaljurisdiction and the ICCPR war propaganda prohibition against Russian statements and speeches in support of the invasion of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 .
January 30, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Speaking at the panel on "#Peace 🕊️, #democracy and #internationallaw ⚖️", he presented a strategy behind a court challenge in #Slovakia 🇸🇰 based on #universaljurisdiction and the ICCPR war propaganda prohibition against Russian statements and speeches in support of the invasion of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 .
'Justice and accountability for international crimes are key when impunity for such crimes is becoming normal,' writes IBAHRI's Dr @ewelinaochab.bsky.social for @thetimes.com on proposed amendments to #UK's Crime & Policing Bill pertaining to #UniversalJurisdiction.
www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
Loophole on crimes committed abroad leaves victims in the lurch
A bill coming before the Lords next week highlights that those affected by foreign conflicts or atrocities can fall through gaps in the British justice system
www.thetimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:04 PM
'Justice and accountability for international crimes are key when impunity for such crimes is becoming normal,' writes IBAHRI's Dr @ewelinaochab.bsky.social for @thetimes.com on proposed amendments to #UK's Crime & Policing Bill pertaining to #UniversalJurisdiction.
www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
WATCH: IBAHRI's Dr @ewelinaochab.bsky.social highlights the importance of a proposed amendment to the #UK's Crime & Policing Bill which aims to address the #justice gap for international crimes. The amendment, pertaining to #UniversalJurisdiction, will be debated in the House of Lords shortly.
January 26, 2026 at 11:43 AM
WATCH: IBAHRI's Dr @ewelinaochab.bsky.social highlights the importance of a proposed amendment to the #UK's Crime & Policing Bill which aims to address the #justice gap for international crimes. The amendment, pertaining to #UniversalJurisdiction, will be debated in the House of Lords shortly.
🇨🇩 #DRCongo (trial in France 🇫🇷) - The trial of #Lumbala before a Paris court ended last year with a heavy conviction. It raises issues relating to #UniversalJurisdiction trials in an even more acute manner, given that the defendant refused to attend his trial.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/154432-un...
www.justiceinfo.net/en/154432-un...
Universal Jurisdiction as Justice: the Lumbala trial in question
The trial of Lumbala before a Paris court ended last year with a heavy conviction. It raises issues relating to universal jurisdiction trials in an even more acute manner, given that the defendant ref...
www.justiceinfo.net
January 19, 2026 at 11:42 AM
🇨🇩 #DRCongo (trial in France 🇫🇷) - The trial of #Lumbala before a Paris court ended last year with a heavy conviction. It raises issues relating to #UniversalJurisdiction trials in an even more acute manner, given that the defendant refused to attend his trial.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/154432-un...
www.justiceinfo.net/en/154432-un...
Every time I see this man, I wish all the more ardently that we were subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC. I have never shipped a man harder with The Hague.
Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…
January 17, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Yes. Really, hope so, too. #UniversalJurisdiction
January 17, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Yes. Really, hope so, too. #UniversalJurisdiction
It’s the shooter, it’s the whole damn unit. And the chain of command. And it’s been a whole year of this.
Get Ice out. And start the investigations/. Document everything. Freeze the crime scene.
#Minneapolis #UniversalJurisdiction
Get Ice out. And start the investigations/. Document everything. Freeze the crime scene.
#Minneapolis #UniversalJurisdiction
January 9, 2026 at 7:17 AM
It’s the shooter, it’s the whole damn unit. And the chain of command. And it’s been a whole year of this.
Get Ice out. And start the investigations/. Document everything. Freeze the crime scene.
#Minneapolis #UniversalJurisdiction
Get Ice out. And start the investigations/. Document everything. Freeze the crime scene.
#Minneapolis #UniversalJurisdiction
January 1, 2026 at 10:10 AM
These rulings reinforce a message that our constitutional complaint challenging the decision of the Slovak law enforcement on non-opening of an investigation based on #universaljurisdiction into Russian war #propaganda will be entertained without any political interference.
December 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
These rulings reinforce a message that our constitutional complaint challenging the decision of the Slovak law enforcement on non-opening of an investigation based on #universaljurisdiction into Russian war #propaganda will be entertained without any political interference.
New analysis in Cornell #InternationalLaw Journal examines if #UniversalJurisdiction can be used to pursue justice for crimes linked to #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine.
Authors: Dr Mark Ellis and Yannic Körtgen.
Read: publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/cilj/2025/09...
#IntlLaw #Justice
Authors: Dr Mark Ellis and Yannic Körtgen.
Read: publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/cilj/2025/09...
#IntlLaw #Justice
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
New analysis in Cornell #InternationalLaw Journal examines if #UniversalJurisdiction can be used to pursue justice for crimes linked to #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine.
Authors: Dr Mark Ellis and Yannic Körtgen.
Read: publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/cilj/2025/09...
#IntlLaw #Justice
Authors: Dr Mark Ellis and Yannic Körtgen.
Read: publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/cilj/2025/09...
#IntlLaw #Justice
🇨🇩 #DRCongo - Yesterday (December 15) a French court sentenced 67-year-old former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala to 30 years in prison. This comes as armed violence is intensifying in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
#Lumbala #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/153708-lu...
#Lumbala #UniversalJurisdiction
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Lumbala trial: absence fails to pay off
On December 15, a French court sentenced 67-year-old former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala to 30 years in prison. This comes as armed violence is intensifying in the eastern Democratic Republic ...
www.justiceinfo.net
December 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🇨🇩 #DRCongo - Yesterday (December 15) a French court sentenced 67-year-old former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala to 30 years in prison. This comes as armed violence is intensifying in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
#Lumbala #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/153708-lu...
#Lumbala #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/153708-lu...
+ 10 countries around the world are dealing with Syrian cases, under the principle of #UniversalJurisdiction.
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United States.
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United States.
December 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
+ 10 countries around the world are dealing with Syrian cases, under the principle of #UniversalJurisdiction.
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United States.
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United States.
#DRCongo - “I came to defend justice and human rights. I travelled along dangerous roads to reach Beni and then flew to Paris because I want justice,” explained the Pygmy chief, who regrets that Lumbala is not attending his trial.
#Lumbala #Justice #HumanRights #UniversalJurisdiction
#Lumbala #Justice #HumanRights #UniversalJurisdiction
December 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
#DRCongo - “I came to defend justice and human rights. I travelled along dangerous roads to reach Beni and then flew to Paris because I want justice,” explained the Pygmy chief, who regrets that Lumbala is not attending his trial.
#Lumbala #Justice #HumanRights #UniversalJurisdiction
#Lumbala #Justice #HumanRights #UniversalJurisdiction
#UniversalJurisdiction: 5 men on trial in 🇩🇪 for crimes in Yarmouk, #Syria
Mahmoud A. is charged with #starvation as a war crime, for beating 2 women on their way to collect food: A micro-moment of direct violence within a macro-crime of systematic deprivation.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/152757-an...
Mahmoud A. is charged with #starvation as a war crime, for beating 2 women on their way to collect food: A micro-moment of direct violence within a macro-crime of systematic deprivation.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/152757-an...
Another Syrian trial in Koblenz – but different
A new trial of five Syrian suspects has opened last week in Koblenz, Germany, on November 19th. It is the first to commence after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. And it is the first ever to charge starva...
www.justiceinfo.net
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
#UniversalJurisdiction: 5 men on trial in 🇩🇪 for crimes in Yarmouk, #Syria
Mahmoud A. is charged with #starvation as a war crime, for beating 2 women on their way to collect food: A micro-moment of direct violence within a macro-crime of systematic deprivation.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/152757-an...
Mahmoud A. is charged with #starvation as a war crime, for beating 2 women on their way to collect food: A micro-moment of direct violence within a macro-crime of systematic deprivation.
www.justiceinfo.net/en/152757-an...
#Syria - A new trial of 5 Syrian suspects has opened last week in Koblenz, Germany. It is the first to commence after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. And it is the first ever to charge starvation as a war crime.
#Starvation #WarCrime #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/152757-an...
#Starvation #WarCrime #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/152757-an...
Another Syrian trial in Koblenz – but different
A new trial of five Syrian suspects has opened last week in Koblenz, Germany, on November 19th. It is the first to commence after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. And it is the first ever to charge starva...
www.justiceinfo.net
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
#Syria - A new trial of 5 Syrian suspects has opened last week in Koblenz, Germany. It is the first to commence after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. And it is the first ever to charge starvation as a war crime.
#Starvation #WarCrime #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/152757-an...
#Starvation #WarCrime #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/152757-an...
As a civil party, TRIAL International welcomes this ruling. It finally allows the trial to move past procedural challenges and toward the substance of the case. #UniversalJurisdiction
November 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
As a civil party, TRIAL International welcomes this ruling. It finally allows the trial to move past procedural challenges and toward the substance of the case. #UniversalJurisdiction
📌 #Paris: The Lumbala trial opened last week with jury selection, contextual testimonies, and the defendant’s decision to stop appearing in court. #UniversalJurisdiction #DRC
📝 Read the summary ➡️ trialinternational.org/latest-post/...
📝 Read the summary ➡️ trialinternational.org/latest-post/...
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
📌 #Paris: The Lumbala trial opened last week with jury selection, contextual testimonies, and the defendant’s decision to stop appearing in court. #UniversalJurisdiction #DRC
📝 Read the summary ➡️ trialinternational.org/latest-post/...
📝 Read the summary ➡️ trialinternational.org/latest-post/...
🇨🇩 #RDCongo - The trial of former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala opened in France on November 12. The accused rejects the French court’s right to try him, while his defence team has been silenced.
Read 👉 www.justiceinfo.net/en/152396-fi...
#RogerLumbala #UniversalJurisdiction
Read 👉 www.justiceinfo.net/en/152396-fi...
#RogerLumbala #UniversalJurisdiction
Lumbala trial: Filling the void
The trial of former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala opened in France on November 12. The accused rejects the French court’s right to try him, while his defence team has been silenced.
www.justiceinfo.net
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🇨🇩 #RDCongo - The trial of former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala opened in France on November 12. The accused rejects the French court’s right to try him, while his defence team has been silenced.
Read 👉 www.justiceinfo.net/en/152396-fi...
#RogerLumbala #UniversalJurisdiction
Read 👉 www.justiceinfo.net/en/152396-fi...
#RogerLumbala #UniversalJurisdiction
Their voices will be heard.
The court has ensured that a lawyer will continue to represent Lumbala’s legal interests, even in his absence.
#UniversalJurisdiction
The court has ensured that a lawyer will continue to represent Lumbala’s legal interests, even in his absence.
#UniversalJurisdiction
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Their voices will be heard.
The court has ensured that a lawyer will continue to represent Lumbala’s legal interests, even in his absence.
#UniversalJurisdiction
The court has ensured that a lawyer will continue to represent Lumbala’s legal interests, even in his absence.
#UniversalJurisdiction
🚨 #DRC The trial of Roger Lumbala begins today, at the #Paris cour d’assises. #UniversalJurisdiction
The trial will examine the acts of violence committed during the operation known as “Erasing the Board.”
📖 Read the Q&A we have prepared with our partners: trialinternational.org/latest-post/...
The trial will examine the acts of violence committed during the operation known as “Erasing the Board.”
📖 Read the Q&A we have prepared with our partners: trialinternational.org/latest-post/...
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🚨 #DRC The trial of Roger Lumbala begins today, at the #Paris cour d’assises. #UniversalJurisdiction
The trial will examine the acts of violence committed during the operation known as “Erasing the Board.”
📖 Read the Q&A we have prepared with our partners: trialinternational.org/latest-post/...
The trial will examine the acts of violence committed during the operation known as “Erasing the Board.”
📖 Read the Q&A we have prepared with our partners: trialinternational.org/latest-post/...
Support from the @EU_Commission is crucial, but its involvement must be survivor-centred and grounded in Syrian realities.
Our panel discussed #UniversalJurisdiction, #AssetRecovery, and #VictimParticipation as key pillars for inclusive #justice.
Our panel discussed #UniversalJurisdiction, #AssetRecovery, and #VictimParticipation as key pillars for inclusive #justice.
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Support from the @EU_Commission is crucial, but its involvement must be survivor-centred and grounded in Syrian realities.
Our panel discussed #UniversalJurisdiction, #AssetRecovery, and #VictimParticipation as key pillars for inclusive #justice.
Our panel discussed #UniversalJurisdiction, #AssetRecovery, and #VictimParticipation as key pillars for inclusive #justice.
#Eritrea👉 #Libya 👉 #Netherlands - Eritrean Amanuel Walid is tried in The Netherlands for leading an international criminal network that detained, tortured, raped and extorted Eritrean refugees in Libya.
#HumanTrafficking #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/151860-ex...
#HumanTrafficking #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/151860-ex...
The “quite extraordinary” trial of human trafficker Walid
Eritrean Amanuel Walid is tried in The Netherlands for leading an international criminal network that detained, tortured, raped and extorted Eritrean refugees in Libya.
www.justiceinfo.net
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
#Eritrea👉 #Libya 👉 #Netherlands - Eritrean Amanuel Walid is tried in The Netherlands for leading an international criminal network that detained, tortured, raped and extorted Eritrean refugees in Libya.
#HumanTrafficking #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/151860-ex...
#HumanTrafficking #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/151860-ex...
#JusticeForGaza - Our map of justice initiatives around the world. Who is doing what?
#InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC)
#InternationalCourtofJustice (ICJ)
#UnitedNations (UN)
#UniversalJurisdiction
#InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC)
#InternationalCourtofJustice (ICJ)
#UnitedNations (UN)
#UniversalJurisdiction
November 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#JusticeForGaza - Our map of justice initiatives around the world. Who is doing what?
#InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC)
#InternationalCourtofJustice (ICJ)
#UnitedNations (UN)
#UniversalJurisdiction
#InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC)
#InternationalCourtofJustice (ICJ)
#UnitedNations (UN)
#UniversalJurisdiction
The IBAHRI is supporting efforts to reform the #UK's approach to #UniversalJurisdiction to ensure that the state can play a more proactive role in addressing international crimes.
Find out more: tinyurl.com/3wsdcx68
Find out more: tinyurl.com/3wsdcx68
IBAHRI supports efforts to reform UK approach to Universal Jurisdiction
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) is supporting efforts to reform the United Kingdom’s approach to universal jurisdiction to ensure that the UK can play a more proact...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The IBAHRI is supporting efforts to reform the #UK's approach to #UniversalJurisdiction to ensure that the state can play a more proactive role in addressing international crimes.
Find out more: tinyurl.com/3wsdcx68
Find out more: tinyurl.com/3wsdcx68
#Syria [AFP] - French investigating judges issued a third arrest warrant on 29 July against former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for chemical attacks carried out in 2013, according to judicial sources.
#BasharAlAssad #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/151313-as...
#BasharAlAssad #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/151313-as...
Assad targeted by new French arrest warrant
French investigating judges issued a third arrest warrant on 29 July against former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for chemical attacks carried out in 2013, according to judicial sources.
www.justiceinfo.net
October 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
#Syria [AFP] - French investigating judges issued a third arrest warrant on 29 July against former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for chemical attacks carried out in 2013, according to judicial sources.
#BasharAlAssad #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/151313-as...
#BasharAlAssad #UniversalJurisdiction
www.justiceinfo.net/en/151313-as...