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.
ICTY Reflects Strengths and Weaknesses of International Justice
5 April 2016
by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo.net Editorial Adviser and associate professor at Neuchâtel University
The history of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) seems a bit like fiction, with its tales of political pressure, witness intimidation, controversial judgments and the assassination of a Serb Prim [...]
5 April 2016
by AFP
Deputy Kenyan President William Ruto was to learn later Tuesday if war crimes judges will throw out a case against him for his role in post-election bloodshed which left some 1,300 people dead. The judges at the International Crim [...]
4 April 2016
by François Sergent, Justiceinfo.net
The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia’s surprise acquittal of firebrand Serb Vojislav Seselj marked the week in transitional justice, a decision that goes against previous jurisprudence of this UN court. Judges said t [...]
Misuse of the justice system in Rwanda, according to HRW
1 April 2016
by Human Rights Watch
(Nairobi, April 1, 2016) – The conviction of three Rwandan former military officials in a flawed trial is a clear example of the misuse of the justice system to stifle freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today. On March [...]
1 April 2016
by Dr. Sarah A. Son
Planning for Transitional Justice on the Korean Peninsula
In the wake of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea, South Korea faces challenges in preparing for transitional justice ahead of regime change in the North and possible inter-Korean unification. The soon-to- [...]
31 March 2016
by AFP
Politics and war crimes: key figures in Balkan wars
Radical Serb leader Vojislav Seselj was acquitted Thursday on all charges arising from the 1990s Balkan conflicts in the latest verdict handed down by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The court h [...]
31 March 2016
by Michael Scharf, The Conversation
ISIS has changed international law
Two years ago, virtually no one had heard of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In a January 2014 New Yorker interview, President Obama dismissed the group as “Junior Varsity.” Since then, ISIS has emerged as one of the m [...]
31 March 2016
by AFP
Seselj: firebrand believer in 'Greater Serbia'
A Serb academic turned far-right leader, Vojislav Seselj won notoriety during the 1990s Balkan wars for his incendiary rhetoric and remained defiant over more than a decade in detention at The Hague. The stocky and ruddy-faced 61- [...]
29 March 2016
by AFP
UN judges to deliver verdict on defiant Serb nationalist
UN war crimes judges will deliver another landmark verdict Thursday, this time against firebrand radical Serb leader Vojislav Seselj -- but in the absence of the defiant defendant, who has refused to return to The Hague. Exactly a [...]
28 March 2016
by AFP
Experts rush to ancient Palmyra after regime ousts IS
Archaeologists were rushing to the ancient city of Palmyra on Monday to assess the damage wreaked by the Islamic State group, after it was ousted by the Syrian army in a bloody battle. President Bashar al-Assad hailed the victory [...]
25 March 2016
by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Question of Genocide at the Heart of Karadzic Judgment
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic has been found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1995). He was sentenced to 40 years in jail, but [...]
25 March 2016
by AFP
Burundi lawyers appeal to international court over executions
Lawyers from Burundi have appealed for action to be taken by the International Criminal Court on behalf of 60 families who say their relatives were killed in government extrajudicial executions. Hundreds have been killed and almos [...]
25 March 2016
by AFP
Karadzic trial shows genocide hardest crime to prove
A complex verdict against Radovan Karadzic, found guilty of genocide at Srebrenica but acquitted of the same charge in other Bosnian towns, has again shown that the "most heinous" of crimes is the hardest to prove. UN judges at th [...]
25 March 2016
by Zoran Culafic
After Karadzic verdict, long path to justice in the Balkans
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday found former President of Republika Srpska Radovan Karadzic guilty of genocide and war crimes committed during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995. But neit [...]
24 March 2016
by AFP
Timbuktu 'jihadist' to stand trial on war crimes charge: ICC
Judges at the International Criminal Court on Thursday agreed there was enough evidence to put an alleged Malian jihadist on trial for the destruction of the centuries-old world heritage site of Timbuktu. The judges ruled they wou [...]
24 March 2016
by AFP
Karadzic guilty of genocide, jailed for 40 years
UN war crimes judges on Thursday found former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic guilty of genocide and sentenced him to 40 years in jail over the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.The court said Karadzic, the most h [...]
24 March 2016
by Human Rights Watch
Chad: Court Order, But No Cash, for Ex-Dictator’s Victims
The Chadian government has failed to provide court-ordered reparations to over 7,000 victims of grave crimes under the rule of former dictator Hissène Habré, three rights groups said today. On March 25, 2015, after a three-month t [...]
24 March 2016
by AFP
Karadzic: Bosnian Serb war leader accused of horrors
To his supporters a hero who stood up for his people, Radovan Karadzic is to others a monster who brought the horrors of death camps back to Europe half a century after the defeat of the Nazis. On Thursday the former Bosnian Serb [...]