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.
Gbagbo Trial Stokes Divisions in Côte d’Ivoire
23 February 2016
by Wilane Paté, correspondent in Abidjan
In Côte d’Ivoire, people have very different views about the trial of their ex-president Laurent Gbagbo and his former minister Charles Blé Goudé, which started on January 28 at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, [...]
South Africa: Impunity, Political Interference Emerge Below Veneer of a Celebrated Reconciliation Process
23 February 2016
by ICTJ
After 33 years in the relentless pursuit of truth and accountability the family of anti-apartheid activist Nokuthula Simelane will finally see justice done. On 8 February 2016, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) announced th [...]
Burundi president agrees to hold talks to end crisis
23 February 2016
by AFP
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has agreed to hold talks to end a 10-month-old crisis, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday, but the main opposition group dismissed the plan as a "false opening". After meeting with Nk [...]
23 February 2016
by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Since the end of campaigning for February 18 elections that extended Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s 30-year rule, his main rival has been either under house arrest or detained by police. Dr. Kizza Besigye was arrested by pol [...]
22 February 2016
by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
Week in Review: Lebanon’s Missing Persons and Africa vs the ICC
Transitional justice is not just about big trials, Truth Commissions and reconciliation processes. This week, Justiceinfo.net looked at the missing persons from Lebanon’s wars, forgotten by history and by a weak State. A governmen [...]
20 February 2016
by Human Rights Watch
Opinion : Move Ahead With Ex-Dictator Case in Haiti
(Mexico City, Washington, DC, Quebec City, and Paris, February 19, 2016) – The current critical political situation in Haiti should not be used as an excuse to deny justice to the victims of human rights violations during the regi [...]
18 February 2016
by JusticeInfo.Net
Cause of Burundi’s Conflict “is not Rwanda”
Relations between Burundi and Rwanda are deteriorating, amid accusations and protests in Bujumbura against Kigali’s alleged interference. But Rwanda has always denied these allegations, saying Burundians must solve their own prob [...]
18 February 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : In Nepal, forgotten repression in Terai of madhesi people
Let’s come together and speak out for Madhesh, to address Madeshi’s agenda for justice and express our solidarity for peoples’ struggle for their rights, writes Ram Kumar Bhandari, founder of National Network of Families of the Di [...]
17 February 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Georgia Becomes First ICC Case Out of Africa
On January 27, judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) authorized Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to start an investigation into crimes committed during the Russo-Georgian war of summer 2008. This will be the first prosecution [...]
17 February 2016
by Sophie Rosenberg
Disbelief and division at the ICC: inside the Laurent Gbagbo trial
Lesson learned: always check the microphones. Just after the start of the Hague trial of former Côte d'Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo, prosecutor Eric MacDonald accidentally revealed the names of four anonymous prosecution witnes [...]
16 February 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
“I lost Everything at Age 19,” says Tunisian Homosexual
Ahmed Ben Amor, vice-president of a Tunisian association defending gay rights, has the alert reflexes and hunted eyes of the persecuted, even when he is laughing. Since he got publicly involved with the Shams Association defending [...]
15 February 2016
by AFP
UN must warn N. Korea leader over possible prosecution: envoy
The United Nation's special envoy for human rights in North Korea urged the UN Monday to formally warn the country that its controversial leader and other top officials could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. A report fro [...]
15 February 2016
by Pierre Hazan
Good and Bad Reasons for Africa’s Assault on the ICC
Since January 31, Kenya and other African countries have been advocating for the 34 ICC member countries on the continent to pull out as a bloc. They claim that this international justice is discriminatory because it has only gone [...]
15 February 2016
by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
The Week in Review: A Tale of Two Ex-Presidents and a sitting Deputy
This was the story of two ex-Presidents and a Deputy President, all of whom were this week face to face with transitional justice. It is also the story of victims of repression seeking justice and reparations in countries such as [...]
14 February 2016
by AFP
Central Africa: from 2013 coup to key polls
Here is a snapshot of events since a March 2013 coup in Central African Republic, which held presidential and parliamentary elections Sunday. - March 2013: The fall of Bozize - On March 24, rebels from the Muslim-dominated Seleka [...]
12 February 2016
by Pierre Hazan, Dakar (special envoy)
Habré Trial Sets Precedents as it Closes
What was former Chadian president Hissène Habré, seated in the Accused box in the Dakar Justice Palace, thinking about on Thursday, the last day of his trial? Was it of the nomadic shepherd child he once was in northern Chad, the [...]
12 February 2016
by AFP
Transcript of exclusive AFP interview with Syria's Assad
In the following AFP interview with Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, the questions were asked in French and he replied in Arabic. Question 1: How do you feel when you see tens of thousands of your citizens starving, running away [...]