Romain Ruiz is a lawyer specialised in criminal defense, with a human rights approach. He has notably assisted several independence movements regularly accused of terrorism and of breachs to humanitarian law. He represents the yazidi victim in the "Sonia M." case , a universal jurisdiction case in front of French courts which will be tried in 2026. The interview as conducted by Léa Franchisteguy, Justine Lager, Tacéo Lenfant et Louisa Ustachakowski. The interview was conduct

Very naturally, but now looking back also a bit naively, we thought that the international community would react to ISIS crimes and create an international or hybrid tribunal the same way it was done for other contexts like Rwanda, or the former Yugoslavia. We had that belief because ISIS is not just one entity with people from one nationality. It is actually over 80 nationalities, so it is an international issue. Natia Navrouzov is an international lawyer and the Executive

Natalie von Wistinghausen is a lawyer specialised in international criminal law. Initially specialized in defense, she has worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and is Counsel at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC), the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT). Since 2019 she has been representing four Yazidi victims in universal jurisdiction tr