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.
Massaquoi case: Finnish court of appeal arrives in Liberia
27 January 2023
by Thierry Cruvellier
Finnish judges, prosecutors and lawyers are expected to arrive in the Liberian capital on 31 January. They are to stay for two months for the appeal trial of the former Sierra Leonean rebel commander, Gibril Massaquoi. Massaquoi w [...]
26 January 2023
by Julia Crawford
Even if, as some are advocating, an international tribunal were set up to try the Russian crime of aggression in Ukraine, it would probably not get President Vladimir Putin and his top aides in custody any time soon, or ever. This [...]
24 January 2023
by Olfa Belhassine
Closing arguments are announced for January 27 in a trial before a specialized chamber in Kef, northwest Tunisia. The victims are pinning their hopes on this. Given the slowness, obstacles suffered by the judges and the weakness o [...]
23 January 2023
by Iryna Salii
Justice Info reports on the latest trial of Russian soldiers held at the end of the year in Kotelva, eastern Ukraine. The four men, members of a Russian army special forces unit, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 11 years in pr [...]
20 January 2023
by Matthias Raynal
Guinea massacre trial: the "Dadis Show" fails to happen
The entire country was eagerly awaiting the appearance of its former head of state, the main defendant in the trial concerning the September 28, 2009 massacre at Conakry stadium in Guinea. But Moussa Dadis Camara finally delivered [...]
19 January 2023
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgian colonial past: Commission fails on apology to victims
The commission on Belgium's colonial past was a pioneer in Europe, but it collapsed at the finish line at the end of December, stripped of all its well formulated recommendations. After two and a half years of looking into the pas [...]
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17 January 2023
by Justice Info
"Ukraine: Justice in times of war": the full video of our debate in The Hague
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
Central African Republic: Special Court "in the starting block" (2/2)
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
Central African Republic: Special Court "in the starting block" (1/2)
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
The occupation of Palestine back before the ICJ, why?
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- [...]