Trump's war on global justice and the ICC. It took a while but we pulled it together. With @reuters.com colleagues Andrew Marshall, @humeyrapamuk.bsky.social @johnshiffman.bsky.social Anthony Deutsch and @michellenichols.bsky.social www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Saif al Islam Gaddafi, son of the former dictator Muammar Gaddafi, wanted by the ICC, has been murdered in #Libya. #intLaw www.justiceinfo.net/en/155092-ga...

Thanks for having me on and bringing attention to this critical impunity gap

Initially this episode was supposed to focus on the complaint we filed in Argentina in mid Dec & UN reform & impact on documentation bodies. But then last month the Islamic Republic killed thousands of protesters in just two days… Without meaningful accountability cycles of violence will continue.

Highly recommended.

Out Now: The current protests in Iran are closely linked to the 2022 Women Life Freedom uprising. Gissou Nia explains a universal jurisdiction case in Argentina filed by women blinded in those demonstrations, and how evidence is being gathered now. www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

#Libya - On February 3 Saif al Islam Gaddafi was murdered in Libya. His continued freedom in Libya epitomised the powerlessness of the #InternationalCriminalCourt (ICC). And his death burries the last hopes that it would bring justice for the crimes of 2011. www.justiceinfo.net/en/155092-ga...

Concise quick commentary - thank you all so much for helping out - from @luigiprosperi.bsky.social and @markkersten.bsky.social and Jürgen Schurr from @libyanjustice.bsky.social and Ali Omar of @lcw.ngo

Gaddafi’s death, the last nail in an ICC coffin, by @janethanderson.bsky.social #Libya #ICC www.justiceinfo.net/en/155092-ga...

Out Tomorrow! Human rights lawyer Gissou Nia talks about protest and crackdowns in Iran now and during the 2022 Women Life Freedom movement and the #Iran #UniversalJurisdiction case in Argentina #AsymmetricalHaircuts #podcast #pod #internationallaw #internationaljustice #womenlifefreedom

By popular demand - We have made our #Patreon bonus episode discussing Philippe Sands with Reed Brody free for everyone! We review Sands' 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia If you like what you hear check out our Patreon! 🎧 www.patreon.com/posts/war-cr...

ICYMI 🎯 We’ve just wrapped up our coverage of three weeks of the groundbreaking hearings at the International Court of Justice over genocide. It’s been brought by Gambia, about what kind of violence forced the Rohingya minority in Myanmar to flee in 2017.

This thread.

As always, great to have the chance to talk with the @asymmetricalh.bsky.social team and @janethanderson.bsky.social.

Another must-listen! So interesting

Gambia’s lawyers are not only asking for the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to declare that #Myanmar is responsible for #genocide, but also to provide a full range of remedies to the #Rohingya community. www.justiceinfo.net/en/154851-wh... #InternationalCourtofJustice

Following Climate Crisis litigation? The ruling comes this week in the Greenpeace-backed case on Dutch state obligations to mitigate climate change in the island of Bonaire under international treaties. Check our throwback episode from 2024: www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

OUT NOW 🎙️ How do survivors see the International Criminal Court? At the ASP last year, we sat down with three survivors of torture: Oleksandr Maksymenko from Ukraine, Elizabeth Atieno from Kenya, and Venezuelan Luis Carlos Díaz www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...

“There is no independent oversight, with International Committee of the Red Cross visits halted from October 2023, and prisoners are denied contact with their families or any news from the outside world”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...?

"Gambia is doing really accurate comparisons to past genocides” to show 'patterns' and 'similarities' with genocides like Srebrenica, the Holocaust or Rwanda" Genocide in Myanmar: the ICJ faces the evidence www.justiceinfo.net/en/154334-ge... @janethanderson.bsky.social @drmelob.bsky.social

Chit-chatting w/ @janethanderson.bsky.social about the #Gambia v #Myanmar #GenCon #ICJ hearings, which are taking up most of my time lately! Such an important case. #genocide #intlaw www.justiceinfo.net/en/154334-ge...

Our 'throwback' episode this week is on genocide and gender. At this week's hearings at ICJ in the Gambia v Myanmar genocide case, the role that CRSV played will be central to how to prove alleged 'intent' in the clearance operations against the Rohingya. www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

Vacature (Senior) Adviseur Internationale Hoven en Tribunalen en Internationale Misdrijven bij NL MinJenV, met accent op het opzetten van de voorbereidende fase van een #Agressietribunaal voor de vervolging van het misdrijf agressie tegen #Oekraïne. www.werkenvoornederland.nl/vacatures/sr...

We're back - shaken out of holiday mode by Trump, Maduro Venezuela. For a quick take on international law implications and potential avenues for real accountability listen later today to @bcfinucane.bsky.social and Ignacio Jovtis

Foreign policy by petty grievance and petulant envy.

Here's a statement from Venezuelan opposition leader and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, in it's original Spanish and with an English translation (machine translation).

Out Now on #Patreon🎙️ For our last War Criminals Book Club of the year, we review The Cranes Call. With Hope Rikkelman we discuss the importance of working together with the local community when investigating Russia's war crimes in #Ukraine Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/war-cr...

Another art 63 intervention in the Gaza Genocide case which makes 15 in total, two of which are also art 62 interventions.

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...

With immense thanks to the corpus of stellar @justsecurity.org analysis on international humanitarian law, I hope those preparing for Spring semester courses can benefit from this curated supplement. Please share with anyone who could use!

Excellent article by @janethanderson.bsky.social summarizing the main themes of this year’s Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court www.justiceinfo.net/en/153443-af... via @justiceinfo.bsky.social

“I can’t think of any other way to describe it but an attack on the independence of the judiciary and the ICC's independence as an institution, which is why I’m so interested in the public hearing this.” @naomiohreally.bsky.social interviews ICC Judge Kim Prost. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

The incumbent and former ICC judges targeted by this coercive measure (Article 70 crime, by the way): - Tomoko Akane - Rosario Aitala - Sergio Ugalde Godínez - Haykel Ben Mahfoudh - Piotr Hofmański - Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza - Bertram Schmitt - Reine Alapini-Gansou

⚡️The Moscow City "Court" convicted the ICC Prosecutor & 8 sitting/former judges of "unlawful prosecution" of Russian citizens (because one of them got so upset). ICC officials were sentenced in absentia (keep it that way!) to jail terms of 3.5-15 years. Karim Khan received 15.

'Rusland geeft ICC-rechters symbolische celstraf uit woede om arrestatiebevelen'

This trial is also the result of the cooperation of a Joint Team, including a number of states, Europol and the International Criminal Court (ICC). So we asked @luigiprosperi.bsky.social what kind of precedent this can set for the ICC’s cooperation with States

OUT NOW 📣 In November, the trial for an Eritrean alleged human trafficker took place in the Netherlands. There was a lot to unpack, so we asked @mirjamvanreisen.bsky.social how significant this trial is + how Eritrean organisations operate Listen: www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...

#HumanTrafficking [podcast] - Eritrean Amanuel Walid was arguably the highest human trafficker to stand trial in Europe. Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts draw lessons from this trial in the Netherlands + an upcoming one at the International Criminal Court. www.justiceinfo.net/en/153530-hu...

Out tomorrow! Who is at the leadership of the networks trafficking migrants from #Eritrea, through #Libya and to Europe? @mirjamvanreisen.bsky.social tells us about the recent trial for alleged Eritrean trafficker Walid in the Netherlands, how the organisations operate and change over time

#InternationalCriminalCourt - While everything indicates that Prosecutor Karim Khan has already left the stage, the Assembly of States Parties to the #ICC, refused to address the elephant in the room. This year, there were several of them. www.justiceinfo.net/en/153443-af... #ASP24

This issue has been explained very thoroughly in an episode of @asymmetricalh.bsky.social discussing the investigations into crimes committed against migrants in Libya www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...

Why plead guilty at an international tribunal? And is it common for women to be war criminals? Olivera Simic has written a new book on former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic. Episode out now👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi... @janethanderson.bsky.social @svdberg.bsky.social

The ICC has an “existential crisis.” Can its members find a way out of it? #CriminalLaw www.justiceinfo.net/en/152952-ic...

Senior Lithuanian journalists are accusing parliament of attempting to take control of the national broadcaster by making it easier for politicians to fire its director. www.occrp.org/en/news/lith...

Rare good news 4 #ICC on 1st day annual meeting: Libyan Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri transferred from Germany. He’s alleged to have committed directly, ordered or overseen crimes against humanity + war crimes; murder, torture, rape + sexual violence at Mitiga prison. (Pic of prison from earlier).

ICC, the “headless” court, opens its assembly of states parties today, by @janethanderson.bsky.social www.justiceinfo.net/en/152952-ic...

Lots of talk of keeping the ICC going at #ASP24 despite sanctions. But court’s issues extend well beyond the Washington pressures. www.justiceinfo.net/en/152952-ic...

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/...

Out tomorrow on #Patreon We reviewed 'They Would Never Hurt a Fly' by Slavenka Drakulić with friend of the pod @vukusiciva.bsky.social We asked Iva what she thought when she first read the book when it came out in 2003, and what atmosphere there was in terms of accountability for war crimes