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.
Bucha: nine Russian soldiers sentenced and more trials to come
15 September 2023
by Olena Zhezhera
At the end of August, the Irpin City Court found nine Russian military officers guilty of war crimes committed in Bucha, Kyiv region, in March 2022. This trial held in absentia is the first following investigations in Ukraine on t [...]
14 September 2023
by Rodrigue le Roi Benga
After failure to arrest Hassan Bouba, Abdoulaye Hissène is the second big fish to be caught by the Special Criminal Court, a hybrid tribunal sitting in Bangui. Hissène, former military leader of the Front populaire pour la renaiss [...]
12 September 2023
by Lucy J. Gaynor
What lessons can be drawn from the stillborn trial of Félicien Kabuga, after the First Instance Chamber decided, on September 8, that the last major suspect in the Rwandan Tutsi genocide could not be tried because of mental illnes [...]
- International
- Special focus
11 September 2023
by Justice Info
Fifty years ago, General Pinochet seized power violently in Chile. His regime became the symbol of Latin America's military dictatorships, and the memory of thousands of its enforced disappeared remains vivid in Santiago. Since th [...]
8 September 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Venezuela/ICC: what’s up with the fool’s game?
For several years, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the government of Venezuela have sort of played a cat and mouse game. And meanwhile, almost ten years after Nicolas Maduro became president, serious human rights violat [...]
7 September 2023
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
War in the time of General Montoya
Colombia’s former Army commander Mario Montoya was indicted on August 30 for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The retired general is accused by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace of adopting “a de facto policy that prioriti [...]
5 September 2023
by Thierry Cruvellier
Lundin trial: "a strong signal to business"
Two top executives of a Western oil company are going on trial for complicity in war crimes. The start of the Lundin trial in Sweden on September 5 moves criminal responsibility for bosses of multinationals "from a theoretical rea [...]
4 September 2023
by Lena Bjurström
Oil and war crimes in Sudan: Lundin trial opens in Sweden
The long-awaited trial of two former executives of Swedish oil company Lundin begins in Stockholm on September 5. Alex Schneiter and Ian Lundin are charged with complicity in war crimes committed over 20 years ago in what is now S [...]
1 September 2023
by Ghislain Poissonnier
CAR: how Special Criminal Court appeal judges innovated and proposed a model
The first final judgment of the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic was handed down at the end of July. It corrects the trial court judgment on several points, notably concerning the conviction of Issa Sallet Ad [...]
31 August 2023
by Caleb Kazadi
When will Congolese “Genocost” victims receive reparations?
On August 2, the Democratic Republic of Congo commemorated its millions of victims of "Genocost", as the Congolese call it -- a crime committed for the lure of economic gain (genocide + cost). Two reparations funds have been set u [...]
29 August 2023
by Astrid Nonbo Andersen, Astri Dankertsen and Otso Kortekangas
Will Norway’s truth and reconciliation process bring change?
A public reading of Norway’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report took 35 hours and was broadcast live. But during its five years of work, the TRC rarely made national headlines. Most Norwegians know little about Indig [...]
28 August 2023
by Alexandre Prezanti
Prigozhin is dead, will Wagner’s crimes remain unpunished?
Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, the two leaders of the Russian private military group known as Wagner, are dead after their aircraft crashed near Moscow on August 23. Despite the numerous crimes allegedly committed by Wagner m [...]
25 August 2023
by Hannah El-Hitami
Enforced disappearances and the German contradiction
Last June, Germany was among 83 states supporting the creation of a UN body on missing persons in Syria. And yet it does not itself have the crime of enforced disappearance in its national criminal code, and a fruitless definition [...]
24 August 2023
by Mariam Sankanu
Gambia: why after four years identity of the exhumed remains unknown?
In four years since the mediatized exhumation of seven bodies in a military camp near Banjul, neither the Truth and Reconciliation commission nor any institution in The Gambia have done anything to identify them. Civil society rem [...]
22 August 2023
by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Final curtain falls on Kabuga trial
It's the end of an era: the last major suspect in the 1994 Rwanda genocide will not be tried by international justice. On August 7, the Appeals Chamber of the international Mechanism, which took over from the UN tribunal for Rwand [...]
21 August 2023
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Pierre Basabosé is "mentally absent” but will be tried
Former Rwandan soldier and businessman Pierre Basabosé is less well known than Félicien Kabuga, whose trial was definitively stopped by a UN court on August 7 because he has Alzheimer’s. Basabosé, 76, also has senile dementia, but [...]
31 July 2023
by Justice Info
Our best justice stories (2022-2023)
Justice Info is taking a break and will resume publishing on August 21. This is an opportunity to offer you a selection of our best "justice stories" published since August 2022. Six articles where our journalists tell the story o [...]