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.
Reparations for sexual abuse in the Church: Victims' discontent grows
23 September 2022
by Clémentine Méténier
In France, Almost a year after the publication of a shocking report by France’s Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church, the reparations promised to victims are hardly materializing. Victims point to the flaws of the [...]
22 September 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier
Khieu Samphan, 91, was found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes on September 22 by the Appeals Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. The former Khmer Rouge leader is the last of a [...]
20 September 2022
by Anastasia Zubova
An important part of war-related trials in Ukraine concerns crimes against national security. One thinks of the trials against captured Ukrainian separatist soldiers for treason. Or against some civilian authorities for collaborat [...]
19 September 2022
by Molly Quell
Two years after his arrest and a year to the day after the beginning of his trial, former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Salih Mustafa heard the closing arguments before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, in The Hague. He’s been ac [...]
16 September 2022
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Philippe Sands: “There is an issue of identity and race” in international justice
The renowned lawyer Philippe Sands, a Franco-British law professor and author, is the guest of the Asymmetrical Haircuts podcast, partner of Justice Info. In this free and passionate conversation, Sands reveals how international j [...]
15 September 2022
by James Harding Giahyue
Viktor Bout for Brittney Grinner: a prisoner exchange that forgets Liberia
Viktor Bout, born in former Soviet Union, was once the world’s most infamous arms dealer. He was accused to have fueled many wars across the world, in particular in Liberia. In 2012 he was sentenced to 25 years in jail by a U.S. c [...]
13 September 2022
by Olga Ivleva
The trial of a Ukrainian separatist in Odesa: "I hoped they would come back for us"
On September 8, a court in Odesa, southern Ukraine, found Ruslan Yelkin guilty of treason and participation in a terrorist organization. A fighter in the separatist ranks in the Donbass, the man was sentenced to 15 years in prison [...]
12 September 2022
by Clémentine Méténier
In Nuremberg, “we started to judge company executives and managers”
Historian and sociologist Guillaume Mouralis, who works on the history of legal practices in post-conflict situations, looks back at the pivotal moment of the Nuremberg Trials, which judged corporate executives at the end of the S [...]
6 September 2022
by Shoshana Levy, Helin Köse and Lucille Vidal
France: Terrorist attacks trial proves an unforeseen experience of restorative justice
As another extraordinary trial opens in France, that of the Nice attack involving 865 civil parties and 8 defendants, we look back at the trial on the November 13, 2015 attacks that closed in July, which turned out to be an unfore [...]
5 September 2022
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Suspect officials remain, as government stalls on TRC recommendations
Activists are voicing the alarm. After its inquiry, the Gambia Truth Commission recommended that some 90 officials, largely in the security sector, be banned from public office or prosecuted. The government has committed itse [...]
1 September 2022
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: new challenges for the military who don’t admit to their crimes
After the last four months major achievements in Colombia in dealing with the past crimes of the military, the new left-wing government now has to deal with the Armed Forces' and defence sector's reluctance to see extrajudici [...]
1 September 2022
by AFP
Five key allegations in the UN's Xinjiang report
The report long-feared by China finally came out, minutes before UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet was due to leave on the evening of 31 August. Summary of the substance of the report, which alleges that Beij [...]
30 August 2022
by Marit de Haan
Is a virtuous model of reparation emerging in Chile?
In Chile, a recent move from the new government on reparation for victims of human rights violations committed during the 2019 uprising could trigger and expresses a radical shift of policy in dealing with human rights violations, [...]
29 August 2022
by Iryna Salii
Ukraine: What it’s like to be lawyer for a Russian fighting your country
On July 29, the Kyiv Court of Appeal reduced to 15 years the sentence of the first Russian soldier tried for war crimes in Ukraine since February 24. Vadim Shishimarin had been sentenced In May to life imprisonment. We met with Vi [...]
26 August 2022
by Robert Odongo
Uganda: Meeting farmers fighting for justice against Total
In the western part of Uganda, about 100,000 people are displaced by a huge oil project mainly run by the French giant Total Energies. The area has been placed under a blanket lockdown by the government. And Total is now subject t [...]
25 August 2022
by Julia Crawford
Five years after the crackdown on Rohingya, “it’s getting worse and worse”
With one million Rohingya still in Bangladesh refugee camps and increased violence after the military coup last year, justice efforts for Myanmar are still in their early stages. But the UN body in Geneva that is gathering evidenc [...]
22 August 2022
by Julia Crawford
Ukraine: What to make of Russia’s copycat justice
A top Russian official said in late July that Moscow had charged 92 members of the Ukrainian armed forces with “crimes against the peace and security of mankind” and opened over 1,300 criminal investigations. Are there any grounds [...]
1 August 2022
by Justice Info
Our best justice stories (2021-2022)
Justice Info is taking a break and will resume publishing on August 22. This is an opportunity to offer you a selection of our best "justice stories" published since September 2021. Six articles where our journalists tell the stor [...]