All Justice Info articles since 2015
All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.
18 May 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Human rights organizations are asking the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to include managers of Chiquita Brands International Inc. in her preliminary examination on Colombia. The International Federation for [...]
17 May 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
The Central African Republic (CAR) is still torn by militia violence and is struggling to rebuild after the 2012-2014 civil war, which left some 5,000 people dead and turned nearly 900, 000 Central Africans into refugees and displ [...]
15 May 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
The transitional justice week was again dominated by the Central African Republic (CAR), where there is a recurring debate on “impunity” for the parties to the country’s conflict – in the name of peace and reconciliation for some, [...]
12 May 2017
by AFP
Gambia's 'broken' justice system struggles with victims' ire
Gambians want swift justice for the crimes of fallen dictator Yahya Jammeh's regime but the new government faces an uphill battle to jail the most prolific abusers. Silenced for 22 years, victims shot or tortured by Jammeh's secur [...]
10 May 2017
by Marija Ristić
New Kosovo Court Pledges to Finally Prosecute Ex-Guerrillas
The new special court will try to make up for the failures of several international efforts to bring former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters to justice for 1990s crimes, but witness protection, legitimacy and outreach remain key ch [...]
9 May 2017
by Gehan Gunatilleke
Can Memorialisation Generate Public Demand for Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka?
Sri Lanka’s three-decade civil war in the North and East of the country, along with an insurrection in the South, witnessed the death and disappearance of thousands. Despite these egregious events, the Sri Lankan state has failed [...]
9 May 2017
by Steve Tickner/ Frontier
Myanmar: The life of a Kachin soldier
Conflict between the Myanmar army and the rebel Kachin Independence Army (KIA) continues in Kachin State, near the Chinese border. Despite recent fighting around the town of Laiza, morale remains upbeat for the KIA soldiers on the [...]
9 May 2017
by Sekou Toure Otondi, University of Nairobi
High stakes in Kenya's presidential elections
After the 2007 general election, Kenya experienced its worst politically triggered ethnic violence since independence. The violence was caused by a dispute between the two main presidential candidates – Raila Odinga and his opposi [...]
8 May 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: “Dealing with the past is defining the present”
The way history is remembered was a theme emerging this week not only in Tunisia and Germany but also France, in the grip of presidential elections. Remembrance and the past were one of the numerous subjects of debate between the [...]
4 May 2017
by JusticeInfo.net
Rwanda tribunal ex-convict tries to go to Burundi
Captain Innocent Sagahutu is back in the “safe house” in Arusha, Tanzania, where he has been living for several years alongside others freed by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). For the last three weeks or so [...]
3 May 2017
by AFP
Swiss extend detention of Gambian ex-minister
Switzerland said Wednesday it has extended the detention of former Gambian interior minister Ousman Sonko after "progress" in a crimes against humanity probe. Sonko was a top lieutenant of The Gambia's fallen dictator Yahya Jammeh [...]
2 May 2017
by Sahar Ammar
Tunisia: Empowerment through the Arts
The sufferance marking the legacy of sixty years of dictatorship cannot be felt, touched and expressed through the sophisticated speeches of politicians and government members. It is only through the stories of victims that pain a [...]
1 May 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Habré judgment sets an example
The Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) Appeals Court decision of April 27 confirming a life sentence on former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré for crimes against humanity was the major event of this week in transitional justice. [...]
28 April 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Is Africa doing better than Europe on new regional criminal courts?
The contrast could not be more glaring. Both the African Union and the European Union have created for the first time a regional criminal tribunal to try the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity. But the result i [...]
28 April 2017
by JusticeInfo.net
“Who will testify to Kosovo tribunal?” asks the man who exposed organ trafficking
Former Swiss prosecutor Dick Marty this week spoke publicly for the first time in years about his explosive December 2010 report on illegal human organ trafficking in Kosovo. He was speaking to a “Carrefour de Sarajevo” forum at N [...]
27 April 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Habré conviction is a “tribute to the persistence of victims”
Appeals judges of the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC), sitting in Senegal, on Thursday confirmed a life sentence on former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré for war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture committed in his co [...]
27 April 2017
by AFP
French court refuses to extradite ex-Kosovo PM Haradinaj to Serbia
A French court on Thursday rejected a request by Serbia to extradite former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj, who Belgrade accuses of committing war crimes during the 1998-1999 war in the Serbian Kosovo. Haradinaj, 48, was a [...]
26 April 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Mission impossible for Kosovo war crimes court?
In a few days, the 19 judges of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC), a European Union initiative ratified by Kosovo’s parliament in 2016, will have their own Rules of Procedure and Evidence. In theory, everything will then be rea [...]