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.
Colombia: the day FARC leaders faced victims of kidnappings
1 July 2022
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The day of reckoning has finally arrived, between June 21 and 23 in Colombia, when seven former commanders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) faced their victims in the kidnapping of thousands of people. Followin [...]
30 June 2022
by Reed Brody
Tomorrow, 1 July, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will celebrate its 20th anniversary. On this occasion, human rights lawyer Reed Brody looks back at the results of the Court, which has not convicted a single state official [...]
28 June 2022
by Janet Anderson
As if the historic failure of the Kenyan trial was not bitter enough, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has taken it upon itself, in agreeing to prosecute Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru, to seek the trut [...]
27 June 2022
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Three years ago, the Swiss NGO TRIAL International filed a complaint against a Swiss businessman operating in the Gambia with the complicity of its former president Yahya Jammeh. The Swiss national is accused of having committed a [...]
24 June 2022
by Julia Crawford
Crimes against prisoners of war in Ukraine: can both sides be tried?
Numerous international and national investigations are being launched into war crimes in Ukraine. The focus has been on the alleged crimes of Russian forces, but there are also some allegations concerning Ukrainian forces, particu [...]
23 June 2022
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Banjul working towards a hybrid Gambia-ECOWAS court
In an interview with Justice Info Gambia’s Justice minister Dawda Jallow said his government has the political will to deliver justice for past crimes. No clear strategy has been explained yet and some victims doubt the government [...]
21 June 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier and Clémentine Méténier
“No one really wants corporations to be liable”
JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Joanna Kyriakakis & Mark Drumbl Why international courts have been so impotent at prosecuting businessmen? Why international law has shielded companies from responsibility in atrocity crimes? W [...]
20 June 2022
by Clémentine Méténier
Business and human rights: the pressure is mounting
There are a growing number of criminal proceedings aimed at holding multinational companies accountable for their direct or indirect role in international crimes or serious human rights violations. These include complicity in war [...]
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20 June 2022
by Justice Info
Corporations face the rising tide of justice
It is talked about for every war; it is revealed after every dictatorship; it is even more debated in the face of the destruction of the planet and climate change: the responsibility of businesses in international crimes is both r [...]
16 June 2022
by Veronica Bellintani
What the Alleged Arrest of Tadamon Perpetrator Tells Us About the Syrian Regime Model of Transitional Justice
Last April two academics revealed their investigation on a gruesome video showing a Syrian government soldier executing at least 41 civilians in Tadamon, Damascus, in 2013. The killer is said to have been arrested by Syrian author [...]
14 June 2022
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The continuing nightmare of migrants in Libya
For several years, NGOs and journalists have desperately alerted courts and governments on the crimes committed against migrants in Libya. Thousands of them are trapped in detention centers, subject to extortion, starvation, rape, [...]
14 June 2022
by Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne
Ukraine: why the ‘show trial’ of British POWs violates Geneva Conventions
The treatment of prisoners of war (POW) in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia is a growing issue. Both sides have been accused of violations of the Geneva Conventions that protect combatants when they are no longer able to fi [...]
13 June 2022
by Franck Petit
Ukraine: “Putin’s goal is not eradication but subjugation”
In the Ukraine conflict, accusations of genocide have been made by both sides. Moscow has sought to justify its armed intervention by saying there is an ongoing genocide against the Russian-speaking population of the Donbass regio [...]
10 June 2022
by Caleb Kazadi
Yumbi massacres: Justice in slow motion
Opened a year ago, the trial concerning ethnic violence in Yumbi, Democratic Republic of Congo, has been at a standstill since the beginning of April. Eighty people are on trial for acts including crimes against humanity during cl [...]
9 June 2022
by Balthazar Nduwayezu
The punishment of the stateless ICTR "migrants"
Six months have passed since eight people acquitted or released by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) were transferred by the UN to Niger, supposedly to live freely and permanently. But they are still without pa [...]
7 June 2022
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
In Colombia, the end of a mother’s 20-year quest for a missing daughter
Arnobia Gutiérrez’s quest is about to finally come to an end as soon as she receives, in a solemn ceremony, the remains of her daughter Natalia who had been missing for 20 years after she was recruited as a child by the ELN guerri [...]
3 June 2022
by Yehor Rud
Two Russian soldiers are convicted in Ukraine’s second war crimes trial
On May 31, two Russian servicemen were sentenced to 11 years and 6 month in prison. They had pleaded guilty on a charge of indiscriminate bombing that damaged civilian buildings. This was the second sentence for war crimes by Ukra [...]
2 June 2022
by Hannah El-Hitami
Gambian trial in Germany: the thin line between witness and suspect
In Celle, Germany, a former member of Gambia’s notorious “Junglers” is accused of crimes against humanity. One of his former comrades, with a very similar background, was expected to come as a witness to shed light on the death sq [...]
31 May 2022
by Julia Crawford and Franck Petit
Insights on the digital revolution for war crimes probes in Ukraine
On March 11, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan announced that his office has set up an online portal to collect information on possible war crimes in Ukraine. The Prosecutor General of Ukraine has done the s [...]