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.
Spanish justice catches up with Guatemalan ex-minister
18 January 2017
by François Musseau, correspondent in Madrid
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 [...]
Switzerland drops war crimes case against ex-Algerian minister
18 January 2017
by AFP
Switzerland said Wednesday that it had no grounds to charge former Algerian defence minister Khaled Nezzar with war crimes, the latest twist in a controversial five-year-old case. The Swiss attorney general's office (OAG) said it [...]
18 January 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
For four months, the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) has been trying to obtain the release of one of its judges, Judge Aydin Sefa Akay, who was detained in Turkish government purges. The judge, who was appoi [...]
17 January 2017
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Targeted State killings abroad as a new form of war
Since September 11, 2001, the strategy of targeted killings has become more and more widespread internationally, in the name of the War on Terror. But the question of their legality is controversial. The widening of targets is tur [...]
16 January 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Can we agree on History?
The way that history is written emerged as a focus of the transitional justice week, be it in Tunisia, Palestine, Israel or Rwanda. Transitional justice is not just about judicial mechanisms, trials and convictions. Reconciliation [...]
16 January 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
One man’s struggle for a Palestinian museum in Israel
Said Abu Shakra is a man of convictions and rarely hesitates to realize them. One of his goals is that visitors coming from Tel Aviv do not stop on the road to Haifa just to get some hummus, but that they get lost in the town of U [...]
13 January 2017
by Elise Keppler
Africa-France Summit Participants Should Stand With Victims
The Africa-France Summit, taking place Friday and Saturday in Bamako, Mali, offers an important moment for African countries and France to stand with victims of grave international crimes by voicing their support for the Internati [...]
10 January 2017
by Olfa Belhassine
Rewriting Tunisia’s history to preserve dissident memories
A third survey by the Transitional Justice Barometer research body aims for reform of Tunisia’s history teaching manuals. History and memory are a central concern of victims in Tunisia, according to a survey by the Transitional Ju [...]
9 January 2017
by AFP
Chad's Habre: desert warlord turned brutal tyrant
A desert warfare specialist, Chad's Hissene Habre seized power in 1982 and quickly embraced the role of ruthless dictator, with brutal atrocities the hallmark of his eight-year reign of terror. Often dressed in combat fatigues tha [...]
9 January 2017
by MRATT KYAW THU
Myanmar: Warrior for peace reflects on troubled times
U AUNG Naing Oo spent years in the jungle fighting the government before he become a warrior for peace on the staff of the Myanmar Peace Center after it was established by President U Thein Sein in October 2012. After the 1988 nat [...]
9 January 2017
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Spotlight on genocide
In this first week of the year, we were reminded of a “genocide” that has been largely forgotten, even if historians consider it the first such mass crime of the 20th century. This is the genocide of Hereros and Namas in Namibia b [...]
9 January 2017
by AFP
Ex-Chad leader Habre to appeal war crimes conviction
Chad's former president Hissene Habre was to begin an appeal Monday against his life sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity after his conviction was hailed as a landmark for Africa. The Extraordinary African Chambers, [...]
6 January 2017
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Transitional Justice in Nepal : Road to Justice or collapse ?
In February 2017, Nepal’s transitional justice commissions will finish their two year mandate. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Commission for the Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP), were establ [...]
5 January 2017
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
Germany set to atone for genocide in Namibia
A century after losing its South-West Africa colony, now Namibia, Germany is debating how to close one of the darkest chapters of its colonial period: the extermination of over 80% of Hereros, which was the first genocide of the 2 [...]
5 January 2017
by AFP
Scars haunt Colombian rebels as they disarm
Jair's missing right leg reminds him of many things: the heavy price he paid for fighting in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the pain he inflicted on others. The 25-year-old guerrilla came of age in the FARC, which [...]
4 January 2017
by Leigh A Payne
Report on Truth Commissions and Corporate Complicity
When the Brazilian National Truth Commission (CNV) began in 2012, its decision to investigate not only the crimes of state agents but also corporate complicity in the dictatorship’s repressive apparatus seemed like an innovative d [...]
1 January 2017
by AFP
Deal reached to end DRCongo political crisis
The government and opposition parties in the DR Congo on Saturday clinched a hard-won deal over President Joseph Kabila's fate, ending a political crisis that sparked months of deadly unrest. Under the terms of the deal, Kabila wi [...]
31 December 2016
by Leona Hollasch
How Power-Sharing Impedes Transitional Justice: Comparing Kenya and Zimbabwe
In many African countries, as well as Latin American ones (e.g. Colombia) power-sharing is often seen as the peace negotiators’ instrument of choice for conflict resolution. This tendency, however, often places those responsible f [...]