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.
Oil and war crimes in Sudan: Lundin trial opens in Sweden
4 September 2023
by Lena Bjurström
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
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
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 [...]
28 July 2023
by Justice Info
Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda: causes, what happened, and justice
From the colonial period to the tragedy of the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda, this small African country has witnessed a history marked by political violence and communal or ethnic tensions. Amid indelible traumas, the quest f [...]
27 July 2023
by Maria Koroleva
One year on, how Russia is starting to try Ukrainians
Justice Info has calculated that at least 50 Ukrainians and foreigners have been or are being tried in Russia, Donetsk and Luhansk. War-related cases have started to abound more than a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Uk [...]
25 July 2023
by Julia Crawford
Colonial past: can a historians’ commission help reconcile Cameroon?
Exactly one year ago, on 26 July 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a commission of historians to shed light on France's colonial past in Cameroon. One year on, this commission has barely got off the [...]
24 July 2023
by Maria Koroleva
Ukraine: in Russia, alleged members of the “Azov” Battalion plead not guilty
Most of the 22 prisoners of war – including 9 cooks – that Moscow considers members of the Ukrainian Azov battalion, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, July 19 during a trial in Rostov-on-Don (southern Russia). In this first, large [...]
21 July 2023
by Letizia Gaja Pinoja
Switzerland: the art of decolonizing a country without colonies
Why does Switzerland, a country that never had any colonies, hold objects inherited from violent conquest? And how are this country and its museums becoming aware, through participation in restitution of cultural property, of thei [...]
20 July 2023
by Iryna Salii
Collaboration in occupied Kherson: “As a decent daughter I went breaking the law”
A police officer from Kherson (southern Ukraine), who provided the Ukrainian security service with information on more than 1,000 alleged collaborators, has been sentenced late june to five years in jail by a court in the capital [...]
18 July 2023
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: unburying of a political smear against transitional justice
On 27 June, the resounding confessions of four soldiers involved in the killing and cover-up of the death of a 23-year-old farmer disproved a vast campaign of disinformation disseminated by the party of former president Álvaro Uri [...]
17 July 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Missing persons in Syria: why create a new UN body?
A June 26 UN General Assembly resolution has created a new Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic (IIMPSAR). This comes after 12 years of conflict and violence, with at least 100,000 people reported [...]