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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.

UN must warn N. Korea leader over possible prosecution: envoy
15 February 2016 by AFP
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 [...]
Good and Bad Reasons for Africa’s Assault on the ICC
15 February 2016 by Pierre Hazan
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 [...]
The Week in Review: A Tale of Two Ex-Presidents and a sitting Deputy
15 February 2016 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net
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 [...]
Central Africa: from 2013 coup to key polls
14 February 2016 by AFP
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 [...]
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12 February 2016 by Pierre Hazan
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 [...]
12 February 2016 by AFP
Kenya's Ruto wins ICC appeal against using recanted testimonies The International Criminal Court upheld Friday an appeal by Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto, denying war crimes prosecutors the use of recanted testimonies to beef up a faltering case of crimes against humanity. In what will [...]
12 February 2016 by AFP
South Sudan : key events in the war South Sudan, where President Salva Kiir has named arch-rival Riek Machar as vice president, has been in civil war for over two years.   Independent since 2011, the conflict in the world's newest nation has pitted government troops [...]
12 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 holds presidential and parliamentary elections Sunday. - March 2013: The fall of Bozize - On March 24, rebels from the Muslim-dominated Seleka [...]
12 February 2016 by IRIN
Why does no one care about Yemen? Shortly before IRIN’s regular contributor in Yemen, Almigdad Mojalli, was killed in an airstrike, he took a trip to Jordan and had a disturbing realisation. He had been working tirelessly to cover the war that had driven his count [...]
11 February 2016 by Julia Crawford, JusticeInfo.net
Case of Murdered Congolese Rights Defender Referred to UN 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
Prosecutor Wants Life in Jail for Ex-President of Chad 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 [...]