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.
Yoorrook Commission: “It takes the death of an Aboriginal” to reform laws
16 May 2023
by Maxim Shanahan
In the fortnight to Monday May 15, senior representatives of law, prisons and police institutions appeared before the Yoorrook Justice Commission, to face questioning over their responsibility in perpetuating the systemic injustic [...]
15 May 2023
by Vito Ruggiero and Francesca Lessa
The authors, who are following this second trial linked to "Operation Condor" which opened this year in Rome, explore the reasons why the Italian justice system decided to try a former Uruguayan military officer, Jorge Néstor Troc [...]
12 May 2023
by Lena Bjurström
This is the fifth Rwandan universal jurisdiction trial to open in France. Philippe Hategekimana, former chief warrant officer of the Nyanza gendarmerie in southern Rwanda, has been on trial since May 10 before the Paris Court of A [...]
11 May 2023
by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
Sudan: who helped the ICC suspects break jail?
Who opened the doors of Kober prison, located north of the Sudanese capital, on 23 April? Where are the three International Criminal Court (ICC) suspects who had been held there for more than four years, including former president [...]
9 May 2023
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia's transitional justice cannot agree on how to prosecute environmental crimes
In its latest indictment, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) insisted that "transitional justice is also environmental justice” and deemed ecosystem damage as a war crime. Three magistrates wrote partial dissenting op [...]
5 May 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Sudan and the power(lessness) of the ICC
Three weeks ago fighting erupted in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the armed forces and in effect the country's president, and his deputy and leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) [...]
5 May 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Guinea Stadium Trial: "There was this boy..."
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
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers orders reparations, but will victims ever see the money?
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
Yoorrook commission: the government admits “a shameful system”
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
Has universal jurisdiction come of age?
“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 [...]