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.
View from hospital and morgue during Guinea’s stadium massacre
29 January 2024
by Matthias Raynal
Morgues overflowing with corpses and hospitals submerged by the flood of wounded. This is the picture painted by two senior health officials at the time of the 2009 stadium massacre testifying in the major trial that has resumed i [...]
26 January 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
There is the Lundin trial going on in Sweden. And there is the Lafarge case slowly moving forward in France. These are arguably the two most high-profile trials for alleged international crimes by prominent corporations and/or cor [...]
26 January 2024
by AFP
On 26 January, the International Court of Justice declared itself competent to rule on the dispute between South Africa and Israel concerning the situation in Gaza. It ordered Israel to take "all measures within its power to preve [...]
25 January 2024
by Mariam Sankanu
Witness hearings end in Sonko’s trial
Eleven witnesses have testified in the trial of Ousman Sonko, a former Interior minister of The Gambia accused of crimes against humanity before a Swiss court. Evidence covered alleged sexual violence, two murders, the brutal repr [...]
23 January 2024
by Olfa Belhassine
Attacks resume against Tunisia’s Truth Commission
The former president of the UN-backed Truth and Dignity Commission, Sihem Bensedrine, on January 12 responded to the Tunisian government's latest accusations of "falsification". Attacks on the commission resumed immediately in med [...]
22 January 2024
by Mariam Sankanu
The order to “shoot” and “kill” Solo Sandeng
The trial of Gambia’s former Minister of Interior Ousman Sonko is entering its third week in Switzerland. The court heard evidence on the violent repression of April 2016 protests and the death of the opposition leader Solo Sanden [...]
19 January 2024
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Convicting presidents: the Suriname case
Desi Bouterse first ruled Suriname as a military dictator in the 1980s. He came back to power as a democratically-elected president from 2010 to 2020. But the dark past of the dictatorship caught up with him. He was prosecuted for [...]
19 January 2024
by Vladyslava Kobko
In pre-2022 occupied Donetsk, a prison’s hell
Denys Kulikovskyi was the warden of the prison "Izolyatsiya" in occupied Donetsk between 2014 and 2018, prior to Russia’s full invasion. Early January he was found guilty of torturing prisoners of war and civilians. The trial was [...]
18 January 2024
by Mariam Sankanu
Sonko trial: who is responsible for the murder of Baba Jobe?
On January 15, for the first time publicly, a former prison guard gave evidence before a Swiss court on the murder of former Gambian businessman and politician Baba Jobe while detained in 2011. At the time, the accused Ousman Sonk [...]
16 January 2024
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia's Awá Indians, closer to justice but plagued by violence
In 2023 the Special Jurisdiction for Peace issued groundbreaking findings on the crimes committed against Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in Colombia, especially for the Awá. It has notably included the war crimes of destru [...]
15 January 2024
by Janet H. Anderson
Israel-Palestine: the legal battle has started
On January 11 and 12, lawyers for South Africa and Israel presented their arguments before the International Court of Justice. South Africa is alleging that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. For now it [...]
12 January 2024
by Mariam Sankanu
Ousman Sonko faces the first witness
The trial of former Gambian Interior minister Ousman Sonko started in Switzerland on January 8. While he denied all allegations against him, the accused had to listen to the first witness, the widow of a soldier he is accused of h [...]
11 January 2024
by Justice Info
A window onto Justice Info’s editorial team
This was a first. Since the creation of Justice Info in 2015, its correspondents had never been able to get together, but it happened at the end of November. Not all of them were present at the team workshops followed by a public [...]
11 January 2024
by Janet H. Anderson + Margherita Capacci
The controversy on “intermediaries” hits back in the ICC Yekatom trial
Alfred Yekatom's defence opened its case early December in The Hague, with a couple of witnesses and a heavy artillery charge against the International Criminal Court prosecutor, accused of having once again used intermediaries an [...]
9 January 2024
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Vincent Lurquin: "having the humanity to defend someone accused of the worst crimes"
For once, we meet Vincent Lurquin outside the courtroom. Without his robe but with the same debonair air that characterises him, the lawyer shares with us his thoughts on the way justice is dispensed in cases relating to the genoc [...]
8 January 2024
by Julia Crawford
Gambian trial starts in Switzerland for crimes against humanity
Ousman Sonko, former interior minister of the Gambia, goes on trial in Switzerland this Monday January 8 for alleged crimes against humanity committed between 2000 and 2016 in his country. This long-awaited trial before Switzerlan [...]
22 December 2023
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: a minister's enigmatic attacks on transitional justice
Why has Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva insisted before the United Nations that Colombia's transitional justice model is headed for failure - while, at the same time, he promotes the special tribunal's acceptance of former paramilit [...]
22 December 2023
by AFP
Belgium: life sentence, notably for rape, for a Rwandan
Rwandan Séraphin Twahirwa was given a life sentence by the Brussels Assize Court on Thursday night. The 66-year-old former militiaman, tried under universal jurisdiction, was found guilty of dozens of murders and rapes committed i [...]