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JusticeInfo.net gets a makeover: interview with Thierry Cruvellier: Thierry Cruvellier, the new editor-in-chief of JusticeInfo.net, presents the remodeled website: a fluid navigation, relevant content and understandable for all. He also introduces our new…
22.06.15 – NOTICE TO READERS – HIRONDELLE NEWS AGENCY HANDS OVER TO JUSTICEINFO.NET: This website will no longer be updated. After 20 years of covering international criminal justice, Hirondelle News Agency is pleased to hand over to Justiceinfo.net,…
JusticeInfo.net takes up the challenge: JusticeInfo.net is launched, as you can see! We will talk about justice, law, remembrance, forgiveness and punishment in transition societies and beyond. How each society…
Philippines: Did Duterte’s influencers use Justice Info?: On September 15, the judges of the International Criminal Court authorized the opening of an investigation on the Philippines. When former Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda made…
Tunisia: Transitional justice holds its breath: At the end of August, Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed prolonged the powers he had assumed in his July 25 coup de force. Since then, the…
Kosovo Chambers: battle for legitimacy at the opening of first trial: The first trial of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers opened on September 15 against a Kosovo Liberation Army prison officer, Salih Mustafa, with a lengthy plea…
Afghanistan: ICC more than ever at a standstill: With takeover of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the nearly impossible International Criminal Court investigation into war crimes has taken another blow. What are the options…
Bosnia genocide denial ban stirs tension: The outgoing UN High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s rare use of his executive powers to ban genocide denial is causing political waves, including threats…
Cameroon: Um Nyobè, a hero and symbol of French colonial crimes: Exactly 63 years ago, on September 13, 1958, Ruben Um Nyobè was shot by the French army. Perpetrated in the context of a “secret war”…
Why the trial of an Iranian in Sweden is a “big deal”: In the middle of the summer, a trial of considerable historical and symbolic significance for the Iranians opened in Sweden. That of one Iranian prison official, alleged…
Gambia: “We want Truth Commission’s final report binned”: On September 30, the Gambian Truth Commission should submit its final report. But the party of former dictator Yahya Jammeh has made it clear, after…
“When the planes came, the birds were afraid…”*: PORTFOLIO – Children’s drawings and mass violence. These drawn testimonies, free from the filter of adult judgment, seem to wipe away the hierarchy of wars…
DRC: Indigenous Twa are freed but still landless: A Congolese military court has released seven members of the Twa ethnic group convicted for “wicked destruction of nature” after settling in a park in…
Colombia’s TRC sits down with five presidents, including critical Uribe: Over the past two weeks, Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission achieved a rare feat – to sit down with all five of the country’s living…
Rwanda: What should happen to priests convicted for genocide?: Can the hand that raised a machete to kill now raise it to bless? The rehabilitation of priests convicted for their role in the 1994…
Restitution of the ‘Benin Bronzes’: “All of the global North are implicated”: A few months ago, Germany announced that it would return hundreds of priceless art objects looted during the colonial era, commonly known as ‘Benin bronzes’,…
Central African Republic: The Truth Commission with feet of clay: A “Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation Commission” was officially launched in July in Bangui, with the swearing in of its members and election of its executive…
Habré’s death: Final blow or wake-up call for reparations?: Prior to Chadian ex-president Hissène Habré’s death on Tuesday, nothing was moving on the reparations for victims ordered after he was convicted. The seizure of…
Hissène Habré: the lion of Chad is dead: He was nicknamed the lion. The former president of Chad died on 24 August, aged 79, in a Dakar hospital. Hissène Habré was sentenced to…