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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.

Congo : The Challenges of the First Implementation of the ICC's Reparations Mandate
30 January 2017 by Kirsten J. Fisher, Ph.D.
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 [...]
Central African suspects of international crimes in “position of power”
29 January 2017 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
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 [...]
Arrest of Gambian ex-minister in Switzerland an “important sign” for torture victims
26 January 2017 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo
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 [...]
Burma: Don’t Prosecute Peaceful Speech
25 January 2017 by Human Rights Watch
(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 [...]
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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 [...]
18 January 2017 by AFP
Switzerland drops war crimes case against ex-Algerian minister 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
Turkey jails a UN judge 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 [...]
18 January 2017 by AFP
Serbia and Kosovo declare war of words A propagandist train, a rising wall and the ghosts of the late 1990s conflict: Serbia and Kosovo are engaged in a disturbing war of symbols and words, unprecedented in recent years. "Kosovo is Serbia" said a message in 20 language [...]
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 [...]