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.
German court sentences Gambian death squad member to life in prison
30 November 2023
by AFP
A German court on Thursday sentenced a Gambian man to life in prison over his participation in a death squad that assassinated opponents of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, including an AFP journalist. Bai Lowe was convicted of crime [...]
30 November 2023
by Margherita Capacci
Prosecutors in the war crimes trial against former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi accused him and two of his co-defendants of attempting to “obstruct the proceedings” by revealing the identities of protected witnesses and trying to [...]
28 November 2023
by Hannah El-Hitami
Last Friday, a week before the verdict, the court in Celle heard the closing arguments of the defense and a final statement by Gambian defendant Bai Lowe. Both insisted on Lowe’s innocence and reiterated his claim that the self-in [...]
27 November 2023
by Aaron Weah
On November 20, Joseph Boakai was officially elected president of Liberia, succeeding George Weah. Some hope that Boakai can finally deliver on the failed promises of wartime accountability. Others think that such prospect is doom [...]
24 November 2023
by Maria Koroleva
In Donetsk, over 100 Ukrainian soldiers sentenced in four months
Since August, the Supreme Court of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, in Russia-occupied Eastern Ukraine, has handed down harsh sentences on at least 118 Ukrainian soldiers and military personnel, as Justice Info established [...]
23 November 2023
by Hannah El-Hitami
“Bai Lowe tried to make amends for something beyond repair”
The trial for crimes against humanity of Gambian Bai Lowe in Celle, Germany, is about to end. On the 16th and 17th of November, the prosecution and joint plaintiffs gave their closing statements. As a driver for former President Y [...]
21 November 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
On the sea frontline of climate change
It is the first time an international judicial body has been called upon to consider the responsibilities of countries when it comes to protecting the world’s waters from climate change. Back in December 2022 the International Tri [...]
21 November 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Guinea massacre trial: it’s time for the witnesses
The absence of the accused Claude Pivi, on the run since his escape from prison on November 4, marked the resumption of hearings in the major trial on the Conakry stadium massacre in Guinea. Security of the trial and its participa [...]
20 November 2023
by Janet H. Anderson
Palestine: the ICC Prosecutor under pressure
On November 17, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced that 5 states sent him a referral of the situation of Palestine. As the numbers of Palestinians killed in the Israeli response to Hamas attacks ratchets [...]
17 November 2023
by Clémentine Méténier
Sexual crimes in the Church: pressure grows as revelations spread
Three years ago, Justice Info published a map of investigations undertaken around the world into sexual crimes in the Catholic Church. This year has been marked by important new revelations, particularly in Latin America and Europ [...]
16 November 2023
by Margherita Capacci
The Thaçi trial between a rock and a hard place
A former Kosovo ambassador testified publicly last week before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in the Hague. The witness mainly retracted his previous statements against former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi. But beyond the reasons [...]
15 November 2023
by AFP
Assad brothers charged with complicity in crimes against humanity
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher and two other generals, Ghassan Abbas and Bassam al-Hassan, are the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the French judiciary, revealed on November 14. They are c [...]
14 November 2023
by Clémentine Méténier
What next after Swiss report on sexual abuse in the Church?
Since its publication in September, a report has been shaking up the secrecy that has surrounded sexual abuse in the Swiss Church since the mid-20th century. The report is still preliminary, but could pave the way towards a more s [...]
13 November 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Guinea stadium massacre: jailbreak undermines the trial
On 4 November, an armed commando got four of the main defendants out of the central prison, including former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara. While he and two others returned to prison that evening, Claude Pivi is still on the ru [...]
10 November 2023
by Julia Crawford
UK military abuses in Afghanistan: SAS in the firing line
In London, an independent inquiry into alleged British Special Forces abuses against civilians in Afghanistan has started substantive hearings. The United Kingdom government agreed to the probe at the end of last year, after inten [...]
9 November 2023
by Maxim Shanahan
Against tide, Yoorrook Commission goes on
One year after the start of a unique Australian truth-telling commission run by First Peoples in the state of Victoria, known as the Yoorrook Commission, urgent recommendations have been made to authorities after hearings which gr [...]
7 November 2023
by Iryna Salii
One year after being exchanged, a Russian pilot sentenced in Chernihiv
The images of the pilot shot down in the early days of Russia's all-out attack on Ukraine made the headlines. But despite his relative celebrity and his confession to bombing Chernihiv, the man was exchanged before he could be tri [...]
6 November 2023
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: when seeking the truth leads to forced exile
In June 2022, Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission unveiled its ten-volume final report and closed its doors two months later. For one of its investigators, Eduardo Andrés Celis, who agreed to speak to Justice Info, that [...]
6 November 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Israel and Gaza: what if the law of war had a say?
Two major questions currently arise for the general public and for legal experts concerning the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza: what does international law say about the bombing of civilians and about humanitarian blockades? [...]