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.
Congo: Two top brass on trial for crimes against humanity in Kasai
30 March 2023
by Caleb Kazadi
An important trial in the "Mulombodi" case opened in Kinshasa on March 20, more than six years after the events. This religious site near Kananga airport was the scene of atrocities in September 2016. Two top Congolese police and [...]
28 March 2023
by Maxim Shanahan
In Australia, a first arrest – of a former SAS trooper, Oliver Schultz – in the investigation of alleged war crimes committed by Special Forces in Afghanistan launched two years ago marks a significant development and poses novel [...]
27 March 2023
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Two weeks ago, Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace indicted 10 former regional commanders of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This second indictment against [...]
24 March 2023
by Gaëlle Ponselet
At the end of 2022, a special parliamentary commission meant to shed light on the Belgian colonial period ended in bitter failure. What do representatives of the mainly Congolese and Burundian diasporas who participated in this co [...]
23 March 2023
by Olfa Belhassine
In Tunisia, the "falsified" report that threatens transitional justice
Sihem Bensedrine, the former president of Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission, is accused of having received bribes to make additions to the commission’s final report. At the heart of the controversy is the Franco-Tunisian Bank [...]
22 March 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The moment the ICC went after Putin
Our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts had their hair in a twist this weekend after the International Criminal Court announced on March 17 that it had issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner [...]
20 March 2023
by Julia Crawford
What the UN probe says about crimes committed in Ukraine, as ICC launches Putin arrest warrant
On March 17, in a dramatic move, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it had issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and his child protection chief for forced deportation of children as a war crime. A UN report issue [...]
17 March 2023
by AFP
Arrest warrant for Putin: the ICC's thunderclap
The judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on March 17 that they had issued an arrest warrant for the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, Russia's Commission [...]
16 March 2023
by Lena Bjurström
Crucial hearing for universal jurisdiction in France
On March 17, the French high court will examine appeals in two Syrian war crimes and crimes against humanity cases. The outcome could affect the future of French universal jurisdiction and of more than a third of such investigatio [...]
16 March 2023
by AFP
UN investigation in Ukraine: Russian war crimes were committed at a "massive scale"
A United Nations commission of inquiry established a year ago issued its first written report on March 16. It concludes that violations of the laws of war were committed "at a massive scale" by the Russian Federation in Ukraine. O [...]
14 March 2023
by Thierry Cruvellier
Forced transfer of children and destruction of civilian infrastructure: what the ICC is up to in Ukraine, according to the New York Times
The leading US daily revealed on 13 March that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is about to seek arrest warrants for Russian officials for war crimes committed in Ukraine. The first two cases concern the ab [...]
13 March 2023
by Iryna Salii
War crime in Ukraine: A Russian pilot is convicted… and exchanged
This is the first case of a Russian pilot being sentenced in Ukraine and present in court. On March 2 Lieutenant Colonel Maksim Krishtop was found guilty of committing a war crime for the bombing of the Kharkiv television tower. H [...]
10 March 2023
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Migrant traffickers on trial in Europe
Following up on Justice Info’s article published last month, our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts Janet Anderson, Stephanie van den Berg and Margherita Capacci ask: How come two Eritrean men are on trial in Italy and the Netherla [...]
10 March 2023
by Astrid Nonbo Andersen and Astri Dankertsen
Truth and reconciliation in Norway amidst a crisis of trust
At a hearing on March 6 the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was directly caught in the middle of a crisis between the state and Indigenous peoples and national minorities. A week before intense protests by the [...]
9 March 2023
by Olfa Belhassine
Adel Maizi: "Remembrance isn’t just about the past, it helps build the future"
Adel Maizi chaired the “memory committee” at Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the International Council on Archives, where he is an expert on archives and human rights. Maizi explains how [...]
6 March 2023
by Maxim Shanahan
Yoorrook Truth-Commission: Cold light on the child protection system
The Yoorrook Truth Commission, in Victoria state, southeast Australia, restarted on Wednesday March 1 with a third round of hearings centred on truth-telling about the removal of the Aboriginal children from their families and chi [...]
3 March 2023
by Kateryna Trokhymchuk
“For a fistful of Hryvnia…” - the story of the first SBU agent convicted for treason in Ukraine
Sergei Govorukha is the first SBU officer convicted of state treason in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion. The military counter-intelligence agency was openly singled out last July, when its chief Ivan Bakanov (and prosec [...]
2 March 2023
by Julia Crawford
Ethiopia promises transitional justice once again
Ethiopia signed a peace agreement in November. In January, the government published a draft document on “policy options” for transitional justice. In February, it moved to try and end a UN expert commission that has pointed to pos [...]