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.
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN LIBERIA – IN BRIEF
27 May 2015
by Julia Crawford
Context: Civil War (1989 – 2003) The legacy of Liberia’s nearly fifteen-year civil war lives on more than a decade after the war’s end. Liberia still struggles to prosecute those responsible for the violence, and develop inclusive [...]
27 May 2015
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Arusha, May 21, 2015 (FH) – Torture, muffling victims’ cries of pain, removing their bodies in the night: these are some of the accusations against the youth of the ruling party in Burundi. The warning comes in a letter signed by [...]
27 May 2015
by Julia Crawford
Context: South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after a bloody, decades-long struggle against the North, often complicated by in-fighting amongst rival southern factions. After independence, former rivals formed a nati [...]
27 May 2015
by JusticeInfo.net
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN TUNISIA – IN BRIEF
Context: At the end of 2010, popular uprising in Tunisia launched it on a path to become the pioneer of the so-called Arab Spring, a wind of popular revolt against entrenched dictatorship which changed the Arab world. The uprisin [...]
27 May 2015
by Olfa Belhassine
TUNISIA'S TRUTH COMMISSION First year
Tunisia’s new Truth Commission is now sorting victims’ testimonies on more than 60 years of dictatorship, which it started gathering last December. "Nearly 12,000 complaints have already landed on the desks of the Truth and Dignit [...]
27 May 2015
by Hippolyte Marboua
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC WANTS TO LEARN LESSONS FROM HABRE TRIAL
Bangui, May 25, 2015 (FH) – The Central African Republic (CAR) wants to learn lessons from the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC), set up within the Senegalese justice system to try former Chadian president Hissène Habré. It is [...]
27 May 2015
by JusticeInfo
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC – IN BRIEF
Context: The Central African Republic has been plagued by conflict and military coups ever since independence from France in 1960. The latest conflict broke out in March 2013, when Muslim-dominated Seleka rebels deposed longtime l [...]
14 May 2015
by IRIN (Désiré Nimubona )
Burundi Who is Godefroid Niyombare ?
Major-General Godefroid Niyombare on Wednesday announced the ouster of President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi over his controversial bid to run for a third term in office. The apparent coup took place after almost two weeks of str [...]
13 May 2015
by AFP
ICC "closely" watching Burundi violence: prosecutor
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda warned Friday her office would closely monitor the run-up to elections in Burundi and would not hesitate to prosecute perpetrators of "mass violence". Tensions are risin [...]
12 May 2015
by Stéphanie Maupas
Acquitted Congolese is an ICC Embarrassment
The Hague, May 12, 2015 (FH) – Mathieu Ngudjolo, the first person to be acquitted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), was on Monday forcibly sent back to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ICC and Dutch authorities dismi [...]
11 May 2015
by Stéphanie Maupas
Testimony of an International Criminal Court Judge
Bulgarian judge Ekaterina Trendafilova left The Hague in March after nine years at the International Criminal Court (ICC), during which she presided a court, became an appeals judge and came face to face with most of the ICC accus [...]
27 April 2015
by Hippolyte Marboua
SPECIAL COURT TO TRY SERIOUS CRIMES IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Bangui, April 25, 2015 – The Central African Republic is to set up a Special Criminal Court to try serious crimes committed in that country. Members of the transitional parliament on Wednesday approved a law to establish the Court [...]