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.
11 February 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Ten years after prominent human rights defender Pascal Kabungulu was shot dead by soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), his family is filing a complaint before the United Nations, Swiss NGO Track Impunity Always (TRI [...]
11 February 2016
by Abdoulaye Diouf, Dakar correspondent
Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) Prosecutor Mbacké Fall on Wednesday asked the court to sentence former Chadian president Hissène Habré to life in jail and confiscate all his assets. Fall was speaking on the third day of closi [...]
10 February 2016
by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
South Sudanese “Want Truth, Justice and Reconciliation”
Recent reports say both sides in South Sudan’s conflict have committed serious human rights abuses, whilst an August 2015 peace accord looks increasingly fragile. Yet a recent survey found that the majority of ordinary people in S [...]
10 February 2016
by Lynn Maalouf
No resolution for the missing persons in Lebanon
“I was 13 the day I disappeared; the day my mother was left without her only child; the day my life was cut short. Many others went missing like me, and their families still await to know what happened to them. Do not let our stor [...]
10 February 2016
by Christine Renaudat, Toribío
Native Colombians Prepare for Peace
The indigenous people of southwest Colombia, known for years of unarmed resistance to guerillas, hope to be remembered in the peace accord between the government and FARC rebel movement which could be signed this spring. JusticeIn [...]
10 February 2016
by Jared Ferrie, IRIN
Sri Lanka war crimes in the spotlight as UN rights chief visits
YANGON, 9 February 2016 (IRIN) - Sri Lanka's president is unlikely to cave in any time soon to pressure for international participation in a war crimes tribunal, as the United Nations rights chief urged today. But he could turn th [...]
8 February 2016
by AFP
Habre had 'power of life, death' over Chadians, lawyer tells trial
Chad's ex-dictator Hissene Habre had the "power of life and death" over his people, a lawyer for victims of atrocities carried out during his 1980s reign said Monday at his war crimes trial in Senegal. Habre who was president of t [...]
8 February 2016
by AFP
UN probe accuses Damascus of 'extermination' of detainees
UN investigators on Monday accused Damascus of "extermination" in its jails and detention centres, saying prisoners were executed, tortured to death or held in such horrific conditions that they perished. Over the past four and a [...]
8 February 2016
by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
Week in Review: Witnesses “Outed” at Gabgbo Trial, ICC Under Fresh Attack
The crimes against humanity trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and his former Youth Minister Charles Blé Goudé at the International Criminal Court again dominated transitional justice news this week. Both men rejecte [...]
7 February 2016
by AFP
French general testifies in Rwanda massacre probe
A French general has defended France's response to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, saying his troops did not give so much as a bullet to the perpetrators and did not immediately grasp the scale of the killing, sources said Sunday.Gener [...]
6 February 2016
by AFP
ICC to probe 'outing' of secret witnesses in Gbagbo case
The International Criminal Court said Saturday it will probe how the names of several confidential witnesses in the trial of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo were accidentally revealed this week. Friday's incident in wh [...]
5 February 2016
by JusticeInfo.Net
Kenyan Foreign Policy “Built on Fighting the ICC”
Unlike many of his peers, the young president of Kenya did not start as a rebel fighter. But when it comes to waging war on the International Criminal Court (ICC), Uhuru Kenyatta has been skilful at mobilizing support, even outsid [...]
4 February 2016
by Olfa Belhassine, Tunis correspondent
Tunisian Youth Stigmatized for Life Under Tough Cannabis Law
“They arrested me in September 2013 when I was at home with a group of musician and film maker friends. The police burst into my house with batons and clubs. They beat us up. You can’t talk to them, they just beat you up, that’s a [...]
3 February 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Ivorian Ex-President’s Lawyers Fight Back
As part of their defence before the International Criminal Court (ICC), Laurent Gbagbo’s lawyers have chosen to attack. First they attacked Gabgbo’s successor, current Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara, who “wanted to take power [...]
3 February 2016
by Habibou Bangre, Kinshasa correspondent
DR Congo’s First Genocide Trial Gets Stuck
It was supposed to be an historic trial for the Democratic Republic of Congo, the first one for alleged crimes of genocide. But the case has got bogged down at the Appeals Court of Lubumbashi (southeast). This court was given the [...]
3 February 2016
by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Opinion : lost opportunities for transitional justice in Nepal
In the 10 years since the end of the Maoist conflict, a number of cracks have appeared in the edifice of impunity erected by Nepal’s politicians. The Supreme Court made a decision against pardoning Balkrishna Dhungel (Maoist lead [...]
3 February 2016
by Elise Keppler,HRW
Opinion : On Africa and the ICC, Don’t Buy All the Hype
As the African Union summit closed on January 31, 2016, Kenyan media ignited with reports that the African Union endorsed mass withdrawal of African countries from the International Criminal Court. But the reality is a lot less ne [...]