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.
Guinea Stadium Trial: "There was this boy..."
5 May 2023
by Matthias Raynal
The appearance of civil parties began in February, but this week the pace of testimony and questioning accelerated. Six people were heard in the last two hearings. They have reinforced the identification of security service member [...]
4 May 2023
by Molly Quell
Last month, Salih Mustafa was ordered to pay more than 200,000 euros to his victims for the suffering he allegedly inflicted during Kosovo’s fight for independence. But the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) prison officer has be [...]
2 May 2023
by Maxim Shanahan
In Australia’s state of Victoria, the Yoorrook Commission reconvened on April 27 for a further round of hearings in which public servants, government ministers and senior police officers are to be questioned over the failure to ad [...]
1 May 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
“It seems like every week, across a variety of situations, there’s a new universal jurisdiction case. We used to count case by case to see how this phenomenon was growing. Now we wonder whether it’s a standard response by victims’ [...]
28 April 2023
by Thierry Cruvellier
Why South Africa said it was leaving the ICC, then flip-flopped
In less than 24 hours, the South African authorities announced their intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) before declaring it a misunderstanding. South Africa is due to receive Vladimir Putin in August [...]
27 April 2023
by Sanne Weber
Guatemalan judges and prosecutors under fire
In the past months the attack on independent judges and prosecutors in Guatemala has broadened from those fighting corruption to those combating impunity for grave crimes committed during the internal armed conflict. The last exam [...]
25 April 2023
by Julia Crawford
Gambian Ousman Sonko will be tried for crimes against humanity in Switzerland
This is said to be the highest ranking individual to be prosecuted in Europe under the principle of universal jurisdiction. Ousman Sonko, former Interior Minister of The Gambia, was officially indicted on April 17 by a Swiss prose [...]
24 April 2023
by Insaf Rezagui and Mohammed Qawasma
The ICC Palestinian challenge
The International Criminal Court’s indictment of two Russian leaders including Vladimir Putin increases pressure on its Prosecutor to show the same firmness in other cases. These include Palestine - and Israeli leaders in particul [...]
21 April 2023
by Iryna Salii and Thierry Cruvellier
Ukrainian justice sanctions “incitement to genocide”
Last February, journalist and television presenter Anton Krasovsky of Russia Today was sentenced in absentia to 5 years in prison for incitement to the genocide of Ukrainians by a court in Kyiv. A case that is a reminder of the fi [...]
20 April 2023
by Iryna Salii
Kherson police officers convicted for collaboration: "I thought I was helping people"
Two Ukrainians who took jobs in the police during the 9-month Russian occupation of Kherson were sentenced to 12 years in jail, for collaboration, by a court in Kyiv. Ukraine’s justice system is trying more and more of its citizen [...]
18 April 2023
by Maarten van Munster and Joris van Wijk
Mistaken identities: how Angola’s reconciliation process derailed
Almost two decades after the civil war, the Angolan government launched at the end of 2019 a large “reconciliation plan”, supported by transitional justice initiatives that scholars Maarten van Munster and Joris van Wijk are one o [...]
17 April 2023
by Margherita Capacci
Italy sticks to its 20-year gap on international crimes
It is an historical paradox for the country where the Rome Treaty, founding text of the International Criminal Court, was signed: Italy has still not incorporated international crimes into its criminal code and still cannot exerci [...]
14 April 2023
by Matthias Raynal
In Guinea, Dadis opposition gives its version of stadium massacre
This week, the testimony of Ben Youssouf Keïta struck a chord. He is the third opponent of Moussa Dadis Camara’s former regime to testify at the Conakry stadium massacre trial. Victim and eyewitness of the bloody repression of Sep [...]
13 April 2023
by Olivier Beauvallet
Benjamin Ferencz: the man who sought peace through law
Benjamin Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg Tribunal prosecutor died in the night of April 7 to 8 at the age of 103. French magistrate Olivier Beauvallet, who worked on the French edition of his autobiography, pays tribute with a [...]
11 April 2023
by Julia Crawford
Colonial crimes: the reparations movement stalls in Europe
The wave of restitutions expected after French President Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 promise to return stolen art to Africa has hit legal and political roadblocks. But while former colonial powers are shying away, it seems “New World” [...]
7 April 2023
by Rachida Houssou
Why treasures returned to Benin are still in boxes
The November 2021 restitution of 26 art works stolen by French colonists from the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, was celebrated as a model. But these treasures that Benin’s people should finally be able to admire again [...]
6 April 2023
by Mathilde Hautereau-Boutonnet
Climate trials: What to make of multinationals’ string of victories?
After the two recent victories in France and Germany of Total Energies and Volkswagen, the author of this Opinion wonders if it is really useful for environmental NGOs and climate justice activists to sue multinationals.
4 April 2023
by Balthazar Nduwayezu
Doctors say Kabuga trial should be stopped
Is Félicien Kabuga, alleged financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, fit to stand trial? This question has been raised ever since his arrest. Last week, at the request of the defence, medical experts took the stand to give their [...]
3 April 2023
by Janet H. Anderson
With ex-Kosovo president Thaçi, the special court big trial opens
Today, the Kosovo tribunal in The Hague plays host to a former head of state in the big showpiece trial of this court. Dealing with events at the tail end of the 1990’s as Kosovo was struggling for liberation from Serbian repressi [...]