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.
Syrian prisons: accusations of torture and executions
7 February 2017
by AFP
The Syrian regime, accused by Amnesty International of large-scale hangings, had already been criticised for torture and summary executions in its prisons and intelligence services headquarters. Amnesty said on Tuesday as many as [...]
6 February 2017
by Maxime DOMEGNI, regional correspondent
It was under threat of a military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that Yahya Jammeh, President of Gambia for 22 years, finally decided to cede power to the winner of the December 1, 2016 elec [...]
6 February 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo
Once again this week, Africa and its relations with the International Criminal Court were in the spotlight. During the African Union summit this week, AU leaders recommended a mass withdrawal of African States from the Internatio [...]
3 February 2017
by AFP
Myanmar's military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims has likely killed hundreds of people, with children slaughtered and women raped in a campaign that may amount to ethnic cleansing, the UN said Friday. A report from the United Natio [...]
2 February 2017
by Elise Keppler HRW
AU's 'ICC Withdrawal Strategy' Less than Meets the Eye
The African Union made headlines Tuesday for purportedly agreeing to mass withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. The reality is more complex. The decision by AU member states welcomes the announced withdrawals by South [...]
1 February 2017
by KYAW PHONE KYAW, HEIN KO SOE & HTUN KHAING | FRONTIER
Muslim lawyer's murder an "attack on rule of law and justice in Myanmar"
U KO NI will be remembered for having made a major contribution to Myanmar’s transition towards genuine democracy, friends, family and colleagues told Frontier in the wake of his tragic death. He was shot dead while waiting outsid [...]
31 January 2017
by Human Rights Watch
Burma Loses a Key Voice for Tolerance
The murder of U Ko Ni, a longtime rights and democracy activist, respected constitutional lawyer, and legal advisor for the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, is a grave loss for Burma and for all those who seek to [...]
30 January 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Tests for international justice in Switzerland and France
The arrest of a former Gambian Interior Minister in Switzerland this week is a test of the reach and limits of international justice, as is the earlier arrest in France of an ex-Prime Minister of Kosovo. Ousman Sonko, who is being [...]
30 January 2017
by Franck Petit
French arrest of former Kosovo PM is a “test for Europe”
The name of Ramush Haradinaj is again on the lips of European diplomats. This former nightclub bouncer was head of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the war with Serbia in 1998. Emerging victorious from the war, he was seen [...]
30 January 2017
by Kirsten J. Fisher, Ph.D.
Congo : The Challenges of the First Implementation of the ICC's Reparations Mandate
On 14 March 2012, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Lubanga) was found guilty before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the war crime of conscripting or enlisting children under the age of 15, and using them to participate actively in [...]
29 January 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Central African suspects of international crimes in “position of power”
In a January 11 report on the Central African Republic (CAR), Amnesty International says several people suspected of international crimes are still circulating freely. According to the report entitled The long wait for justice: Ac [...]
26 January 2017
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
Arrest of Gambian ex-minister in Switzerland an “important sign” for torture victims
Just days after long-time Gambian President Yahya Jammeh went into exile following electoral defeat and the threat of regional military intervention, his former Interior Minister Ousman Sonko has been arrested in Switzerland. This [...]
25 January 2017
by Human Rights Watch
Burma: Don’t Prosecute Peaceful Speech
(Rangoon) – Burma’s government should act to end the prosecution of peaceful critics in violation of their right to free speech, Human Rights Watch said today. The National League for Democracy (NLD)-led government should seek to [...]
24 January 2017
by AFP
Afghanistan orders arrest of vice-president's guards in abuse case
Afghanistan's attorney general has ordered the arrest of nine bodyguards of Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum for sexually abusing and torturing a rival, an official said Tuesday. Dostum, a former warlord who has a catalogue of w [...]
23 January 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, with Mamadou Ben Chérif Diabaté and Studio Tamani in Bamako
Gao attack highlights fragility of Mali peace process
The target of January 18’s terrorist attack in Gao, northern Mali, was highly symbolic: a camp housing members of the Malian armed forces and various armed groups who used to fight each other. The attack left dozens dead in this p [...]
23 January 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Does extrajudicial killing of “terrorists” threaten rule of law?
The timing may be just a coincidence. But the coincidence this week of a former Guatemalan minister’s trial in Spain for summary executions of eight gang leaders and questions on the legality of French and American targeted killin [...]
22 January 2017
by Gilbert M. Khadiagala, University of the Witwatersrand
Dear President Trump: let me share some home truths about Africa with you
Africa has occupied a more or less constantly insignificant position in both Republican and Democratic administrations in the US since the 1960s. Studies of US-Africa policies have tended to depict Republican administrations as [...]
20 January 2017
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Act on CAR Special Court to halt “staggering impunity”, say rights groups
Nearly a year after elected institutions were installed in the Central African Republic (CAR), armed groups continue to sow death in the country, despite relative stabilization of the capital, Bangui. Seleka and Antibalaka militia [...]
18 January 2017
by François Musseau, correspondent in Madrid
Spanish justice catches up with Guatemalan ex-minister
Former Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Roberto Vielmann, 60, has gone on trial in Spain for the assassination of eight detainees in 2006. The trial before Spain’s highest court for cases of terrorism, genocide and crimes again [...]