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.
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17 January 2023
by Justice Info
On December 6th, Justice Info organised a debate on justice in Ukraine, as a side event of the Assembly of States parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Entitled "Ukraine: Justice in times of war", the event gave voice [...]
17 January 2023
by Franck Petit
After completing its first trial in seven years, the Special Criminal Court (SCC), whose mandate has just been renewed, is confident that it can speed up its work. Here are the details of two cases, among the 19 under investigatio [...]
16 January 2023
by Franck Petit
The Special Criminal Court (SCC)’s mandate was renewed on December 28 by the parliament of the Central African Republic for five years, despite its meagre results. Since its creation in 2015, this UN-backed hybrid court has conduc [...]
13 January 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
On New Year's Eve, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution seeking a new opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories. The resolution, adop [...]
12 January 2023
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
How Colombia’s JEP earns the respect of sceptical victims
In a country where many, especially in the political arena, still tend to see Colombian society as divided in two almost irreconcilable and immovable halves, the very personal processes - away from the public spotlight - of victim [...]
10 January 2023
by Marjolein van Pagee
Colonial racism catches up with Amsterdam Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam was sued by Indonesians for using the racist term bersiap in a recent exhibition. It is through court cases that Indonesian rights activists have changed the debate over the Dutch colonial past and exp [...]
9 January 2023
by Hannah El-Hitami
Patrick Kroker: “They saw injuries nobody could have survived”
In Berlin, a former militia member from Syria is accused of war crimes for firing a grenade into a group of civilians in Damascus in 2014. The trial is the third in Germany to prosecute crimes of the Bashar al-Assad regime. Lawyer [...]
6 January 2023
by Massimo Moratti
Is war crimes prosecution in Serbia just “ticking boxes”?
The prosecution of war crimes in Serbia for the conflicts of the 1990s mirrors the political developments of Serbian society in the last 10 years. The strategy designed in 2016 was considered a necessary step towards the country’s [...]
5 January 2023
by Franck Petit
Toussaint Muntazini: "If they extend the Special Court mandate, they expect added value"
The Central African Republic parliament on December 28 renewed the mandate of the Special Criminal Court (SCC) for five years. After a highly publicized arrival at Bangui airport on May 25, 2017, its Congolese prosecutor Toussaint [...]
20 December 2022
by Christine Chaumeau
David Van Reybrouck: "The fight for decolonization can’t be detached from the fight against global warming"
JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS David Van Reybrouck Historian and author Belgian essayist, historian and journalist David Van Reybrouck has taken a close look at Belgian and Dutch colonialism in two major works: “Congo, a history [...]
19 December 2022
by Anastasia Zubova
Ukrainian orthodox priest prosecuted for alleged links to Russia
On December 9, a court in south central Ukraine imposed movement restrictions on orthodox priest Metropolitan Joasaph of Kirovohrad, suspected of having spread pro-Russian views and literature. The Orthodox church of Ukraine estab [...]
16 December 2022
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
When victims became heroes
Anybody in the field of international justice knows American human rights lawyer Reed Brody, sometimes strangely known as “the dictator hunter”. A shrewd and creative lawyer, unrelenting activist, gifted communicator and story-tel [...]
16 December 2022
by Matthias Raynal
Dadis Camara before a Guinean court: "What forgiveness will I ask for?”
This is the appearance that all Guineans have been waiting for. Will Moussa Dadis Camara, head of the junta at the time of the 2009 Conakry stadium massacre, acknowledge his responsibility after being implicated by some of his co- [...]
16 December 2022
by AFP
Kosovo: first conviction for war crimes in The Hague
Salih Mustafa was convicted of murder, torture and arbitrary detention in a prison run by Kosovo's Albanian independence guerrilla group, the KLA, which has been in power in Pristina since the 1998-1999 war of independence against [...]
15 December 2022
by Kateryna Trokhymchuk
Ukraine: a 2014 separatist combatant gets caught in the 2022 war
Separatist combatants from Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine are regularly tried before Ukrainian courts. Ruslan Glotov was one of them back in 2014. In March 2022, he was identified while enlisted to go and fight with the Uk [...]
13 December 2022
by Janet H. Anderson
Everything you need to know or argue about a special tribunal on Russia’s crime of aggression
There was new momentum this month on the idea of creating a special tribunal that would deal with the crime of aggression of Russia against Ukraine. The president of the European Commission declared her support for it, followed by [...]
12 December 2022
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: the truths that the former FARC are reluctant to own up to
Many victims in Colombia feel that the FARC are still reluctant to fully own up to many of their atrocities. Especially when it comes to crimes committed against leftist politicians and peasants. The 1986 murder of former Congress [...]
9 December 2022
by Otso Kortekangas and Rachael Lorna Johnstone
In Finland, Sámi rights take central stage in national politics
A new bill regulating voters in the Sámi Parliament elections creates political turmoil in Finland. The definition of Sámi is the main point of conflict. The controversy has divided the government coalition and attracted criticism [...]
8 December 2022
by Boubacar Sidiki Haidara
In Timbuktu, ICC reparations bring mixed feelings
In the Timbuktu region of northern Mali, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Trust Fund for Victims has since 2021 been compensating victims of the destruction of the city's holy shrines during the occupation by Jihadists in 20 [...]