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.
What's happening in the Kayishema case?
2 November 2023
by Balthazar Nduwayezu
What has happened since the arrest five months ago in South Africa of Fulgence Kayishema, one of the last four fugitives wanted for their role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda? A new arrest warrant was made public in September, call [...]
31 October 2023
by Maria Koroleva
Justice Info has endeavored to follow the cases of at least two servicemen, convicted and sentenced in Ukraine for war crimes, who have been exchanged and returned to Russia. Although they have been convicted and have admitted the [...]
30 October 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Since February, more than 100 victims of the 28 September 2009 massacre have been heard at the Dixinn criminal court in Conakry, Guinea. These hearings have been powerful, but have become repetitive, with the risk of dragging the [...]
27 October 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
While « serious human rights violations are being committed to this day in Venezuela », according to a UN Fact-Finding Mission, and when the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the government of Venezuela are playing cat and mo [...]
27 October 2023
by Olena Zhezhera
Trials of Russian military officers continue in Ivankiv
In Ukraine, trials of Russian military officers are still ongoing, often discreetly and mostly in absentia. For example, two soldiers were at the end of September sentenced by a local court in the town of Ivankiv, north of the cap [...]
26 October 2023
by Margherita Capacci
ICC First Darfur case: “I am not Ali Kushayb”
The defence case in the first Darfur trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) started on October 19. According to his lawyers, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman was an “anonymous pharmacist” and not Ali Kushayb, a militia [...]
24 October 2023
by Anastasia Zubova
"I did not pledge allegiance to this country"
Angelina Dovbnya., a 21-year old Ukrainian woman, was sentenced to life for high treason by her country’s courts on October 13. Here is the out of the ordinary story of a young woman from Southern Ukraine who used to love travelin [...]
23 October 2023
by Janet H. Anderson
The Mokom fiasco at the ICC
It’s a new blow for the International Criminal Court. On October 16 the Prosecutor announced he was withdrawing all charges against Maxime Mokom, a former minister from Central African Republic. Other cases linked to this country’ [...]
20 October 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Bitter law in Palestine
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has been strongly criticized for his silence and lack of action on the Palestine situation. The contrast with his hyper activity and high-profile arrest warrants on Ukraine is str [...]
20 October 2023
by Lucy Gaynor
The law and the spectacle of the law
On 10 October, Canada and the Netherlands appeared before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, applying for ‘provisional measures’ to prevent ongoing, systematic, entrenched torture practices being committed by t [...]
19 October 2023
by Julia Crawford
Flawed transitional justice in Ethiopia
The UN and NGOs say atrocities are continuing in Ethiopia, despite a peace agreement, and the government’s approach to transitional justice is flawed. But the latest session of the UN Human Rights Council ended last week without r [...]
17 October 2023
by Gaëlle Ponselet
"There was no roadblock, there wasn’t the space"
The genocide trial of Rwandans Séraphin Twahirwa and Pierre Basabosé began in Belgium on October 9. During his first interrogation, Twahirwa denied any connection with the former presidential family, any involvement in the killing [...]
16 October 2023
by Cath Collins
Chile’s ‘Pinochet Cases’ at 25: an ongoing sea change
It is 25 years since former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London on October 16, 1998. This was a defining moment in the development of international justice. It was also a defining moment for Chile’s justice sy [...]
13 October 2023
by Janet Anderson
The weak hope of an ICC investigation into Palestine
The situation in Palestine has been on the books of the International Criminal Court long before the recent violence in and around Gaza. Critics of the slow pace and lack of information on the investigations by the Office of the P [...]
12 October 2023
by Aaron Weah
George Weah’s politics of silence
The first round of presidential elections in Liberia was held on October 10. What is the legacy of George Weah's six-year presidency on justice for the crimes committed during the civil war? Before entering politics, the former in [...]
10 October 2023
by Olivier Truc
The Swedish prosecutor who challenged Lundin Oil
It was prosecutor Magnus Elving who opened the probe into Swedish oil company Lundin, accused of complicity in war crimes in southern Sudan. He is now retired and following from a distance the trial that opened in Stockholm on Sep [...]
9 October 2023
by Maarten van Munster and Joris van Wijk
Polarized reconciliation in Angola
A recent controversial search for victims of former guerilla UNITA’s internal purges by the Reconciliation commission has further harmed the work and reputation of the commission. Critics point to the increased politicization of t [...]
4 October 2023
by Samson Martirosyan
Armenia joins the ICC in a geopolitical tightrope
Azerbaijan has gained full control of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, leading to mass exodus of Armenians from the enclave. In a move to prevent further attacks from Azerbaijan on Armenia and hold it responsible for potential w [...]
3 October 2023
by Amir Fares
General Nezzar is weakened, but not abandoned by Algiers
"The whole world recognises that Algeria was fighting terrorism, with the exception of the Swiss justice system," said the Algerian foreign minister. He was reacting to Switzerland’s indictment at the end of August of former Alger [...]