The 2025 Irish “State Papers” (as an historian, my favourite week of the year) show that in 1975 the 🇮🇪 attorney general explored the possibility of asking the #UN to make #NorthernIreland a “trusteeship” - akin to the status of #Rwanda (Ruanda-Urundi) in 1940s/50s www.irishtimes.com/history/2025...

Favourite books of 2025: a #NewYearsEve thread (1/10) 1) Blitz Bazawule, “The Scent of Burning Flowers” Post-Independence #Ghana, fugitives from the #FBI, and highlife #music

Colombian mercenaries fighting for the RSF in #Sudan - responsible for mass rapes & systematic killing - were recruited from an address in N. #London Colombians in 🇸🇩 have “had a profound impact on the trajectory of the conflict” including the training of children www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

#Rwanda’s UN Ambassador re-stresses its bid to host the #ICTR #archives (currently housed @ the Mechanism in #Arusha 🇹🇿 & on the #UN Court Records Database) Ngoga says the records contain "the authoritative historical account of the #Genocide against the Tutsi” www.newtimes.co.rw/article/3191...

Top #USA officials threaten more #sanctions against the #ICC unless the Court changes its founding document - the 1998 Rome Statute - to say it has no jurisdiction over them When asked if this was about 🇺🇸 conduct in #Venezuela “the official declined to elaborate” www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The Confirmation of Charges hearing is scheduled for 19 May 2026.

The Confirmation of Charges hearing is scheduled for 19 May 2026.

In a speedy 21 mins, El Hishri's first appearance at the #ICC ends. He listened to the War Crimes (Imprisonment, torture, murder, rape, sexual violence, outrages upon personal dignity) & Crimes Against Humanity (Imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual violence, murder, persecution) he is accused of.

Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, accused of #WarCrimes and Crimes Against Humanity committed in Mitiga prison, #Libya, between 2015 and 2020, is currently appearing before the #ICC for the first time. The initial appearance can be followed here 👇 from 14:00 #Hague -time www.icc-cpi.int/streaming-al...

To add to the OTP's language of 'Resilient Justice' in its 2025 report, maybe also 'austerity justice'?

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri will be transferred from #Germany, where he was arrested in July, to the #ICC The warrant - issued in July - lists 12 #WarCrimes and Crimes Against Humanity, committed near Mitiga prison in #Libya, between 2015 and 2020 www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

International law needs better stories. "If we lose sight of history when asking about the future of international law after #Gaza, we risk thinking that before Gaza there existed a pure, moral core." I wrote about law, history, and power in @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

International law needs better stories. "If we lose sight of history when asking about the future of international law after #Gaza, we risk thinking that before Gaza there existed a pure, moral core." I wrote about law, history, and power in @nrc.nl www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

#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...

80 years after the opening of the 'Trial of Major War Criminals' in #Nuremberg, the Harvard Law School Library has made a full #archive digitally available. A searchable collection of evidentiary documents & english #trial transcripts from 13 trials (>750,000 pages!) hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...

I work in an office populated entirely by #PhDs. The whole building was just evacuated due to a fire alarm. Without a single hesitation, as others streamed down the stairs, every single PhD methodically packed up our laptops and notebooks before leaving with full backpacks… PhD-ing summed up!

🚨 Félicien #Kabuga is NOT fit to be flown to #Rwanda, judges at the #ICTR’s Residual Mechanism have decided. A few days ago, Prosecutor’s submitted a report from an expert on aeromedical transfer, arguing that it would be possible. But judges are firm: it must be a state close to the #Netherlands

The 'pre-pre-trial' battle over proposed witnesses, experts, evidence, & exculpations heats up in the #ICC's #Duterte proceedings Wading through it all, I am pleased to inform you all that the ICC has inspired the name I'll take if I am ever asked to be a #Bond villain post- #PhD: 'Dr. [REDACTED]'

What are the Promises, Processes, and Pitfalls of International Criminal #Justice today? Delighted to be bringing some wonderful speakers to #Amsterdam - researchers and practitioners - for an informal discussion and Q&A. 📍Thursday 4 December Sign-up/More Info 👇 www.asser.nl/nnhrr/news/e...

A “strategic-advisory firm” based in Mayfair, #London, led an intelligence operation to find “evidence” to undermine the credibility of the woman who accused #ICC prosecutor Karim #Khan of sexual assault. It was allegedly commissioned by state officials in #Qatar www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

I take this as a quite harsh rebuke by the ICC judges of how past and present ICC prosecutors have handled applications for arrest warrants (I.e. timing of making the applications public).

Trump takes on #Nigeria in characteristic fashion: "a very complex matter...stripped of its nuance" On 1 November, #Trump announced his desire to take military action against the 🇳🇬 gov. to save Christians from the "existential threat" of "radical Islamists" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In #Uganda, victims of Joseph Kony's #LRA have welcomed the confirmation of 39 war crimes & crimes against humanity charges. #ICC judges confirmed all of the prosecutor's charges against #Kony, but no trial will go ahead unless he ends up in custody in The Hague. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A “strategic-advisory firm” based in Mayfair, #London, led an intelligence operation to find “evidence” to undermine the credibility of the woman who accused #ICC prosecutor Karim #Khan of sexual assault. It was allegedly commissioned by state officials in #Qatar www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

The #ICC Office of the #Prosecutor said of the decision: “This ensures that Joseph Kony – once arrested – can immediately face trial on these charges” But judges explicitly suspended the #appeal filing deadline. So if #Kony is ever arrested, expect intense appeals before any possible trial.

Today - almost 1 month after the historic “Confirmation of Charges” hearings against an absent Joseph #Kony - the #ICC Pre-Trial Chamber has confirmed all 39 charges of #warcrimes and crimes against humanity laid by the prosecutor. www.icc-cpi.int/news/kony-ca...

Osama Almasri Najim - wanted by the ICC for Crimes Against Humanity & War Crimes committed in #Libya - was arrested and released in Italy earlier this year. He has just been arrested & is being questioned, in Libya, according to the prosecutor's office in #Tripoli www.newarab.com/news/libya-d...

#Rwanda Fulgence Kayishema - arrested in #SouthAfrica in 2023 - has still not been transferred to Rwanda for trial. Earlier this year, he formally requested that the referral of his case to 🇷🇼 be revoked for four reasons. Today, the #ICTR's 'Residual Mechanism' (IRMCT) issued a decision. 🧵

Rodrigo #Duterte's defence team have filed a notice of appeal against the decision (below) which denied their challenge to #ICC jurisdiction over the former #Philippines President They ask judges to rule there is "no legal basis" for the proceedings & grant him "immediate and unconditional release"

Paul #Biya - President of #Cameroon since 1982 - will begin an 8th term, after winning an election dubbed a “masquerade” by his opponent. Already the world’s oldest serving head of state, aged 92, this term would keep him in power until almost his 100th birthday. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

#Sudan Since seizing the city of El Fasher just last week, after an extensive siege and bombardment, the #paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are accused of the ethnically motivated mass killing of more than 2,000 unarmed civilians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

2022: A #UK Ministry of Defence official leaked details of c.19,000 #Afghans who applied to move to 🇬🇧 after the #Taliban seized power. 2023: The info was put on #Facebook. Of 231 people notified of the breach, 49 say a colleague or family member was then killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Last week's #ICJ 'Advisory Opinion' - regarding the "obligations of #Israel" re: the presence of #UN bodies & other organisations "in and in relation to the Occupied #Palestinian Territory" - was broken down by @emiliajkle.bsky.social for @opiniojuris.bsky.social 👇 opiniojuris.org/2025/10/25/o...

What are the Promises, Processes, and Pitfalls of International Criminal #Justice today? Delighted to be bringing some wonderful speakers to #Amsterdam - researchers and practitioners - for an informal discussion and Q&A. 📍Thursday 4 December Sign-up/More Info 👇 www.asser.nl/nnhrr/news/e...

#Breaking Independent Catherine Connolly to become tenth President of Ireland after resounding election victory | Watch and follow live

Soldier F - who sat in the courtroom hidden by a curtain - has been found 'not guilty' of the murder of 2 people when the British army opened fire at a civil rights protest in #Derry, on 'Bloody Sunday', in 1972. www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...

A day where law and justice feel far apart. But criminal law really struggles to function at 53 years of remove, when so many witnesses are dead. Injustice was assured when it took this long for the state to recognise its wrongdoing and start proceedings: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...

Here we go.

🚨Today🚨 At 15:00 in #TheHague, the #ICJ will deliver its advisory opinion on "Obligations of #Israel... in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory". This is separate from the #genocide case brought by #SouthAfrica in 2023. It was requested by the #UN General Assembly in December 2024👇

The #Netherlands will, as early as next year, send rejected asylum seekers to #Uganda The #VVD minister (currently) responsible for Foreign Affairs, and Asylum and #Migration, David van Weel, called the deal a “deterrent” to those who might wish to stay in 🇳🇱 www.ft.com/content/e999...

A jury in the #USA found BNP Paribas - a French bank - liable for #atrocities committed by the regime of Omar Al-Bashir in #Sudan The 3 plaintiffs in the case were awarded $20.75m in damages, as the bank was held to have helped prop up the Al-Bashir regime during the 2000s. aje.io/8zwssr

“The law of the #ICC was born out of European crimes but only applied so far to crimes committed outside of Europe...our request is simple: to apply the law impartially, also upon European nationals.” Omer Shatz excoriated the international legal order's EU-blindness to @apnews.com

"We did the work of the office of the prosecutor" #humanrights lawyers yesterday filed a 700-pg brief @ #ICC accusing 122 #EU leaders of crimes against humanity against #migrants in the Mediterranean Former #Dutch PM Mark #Rutte is joined by #Macron, #Orban, & others crimesagainsthumanity.eu/en

Immense reporting by @reuters.com #Assad's 'Operation Move Earth': secret excavation & transfer of thousands of bodies of regime-victims from one mass grave to another. A colonel - "master of cleansing" - spent nearly a decade organising the burying of Assad’s dead. www.reuters.com/investigates...

🚨 Interested in pursuing an #MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies? Next month is your chance to learn more, at the University of Amsterdam’s “Masterweek” 🚨 Join us #online on Monday 17 November 2025, 17:00-18:00 to hear more about the programme! Register here👇 www.uva.nl/programmakra...

Check out our special episode, introducing our Bookclub over on #Patreon. @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social is one of our occasional contributors there. She recommended and reviewed Michel Trouillot’s Silencing the Past for us. One of her faves Episode out now👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/bon...

🚨 Interested in pursuing an #MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies? Next month is your chance to learn more, at the University of Amsterdam’s “Masterweek” 🚨 Join us #online on Monday 17 November 2025, 17:00-18:00 to hear more about the programme! Register here👇 www.uva.nl/programmakra...

"Operation Move Earth": a two-year secret operation carried out by Bashar Al-Assad's regime in #Syria From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings". www.reuters.com/world/middle...