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.
Genocide in Rwanda : Bucyibaruta guilty by complicity
13 July 2022
by AFP
Former Rwandan prefect Laurent Bucyibaruta was sentenced on July 12 by a Paris court to 20 years in prison for complicity in genocide. The former civil servant was acquitted as a main perpetrator of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis [...]
12 July 2022
by Clémentine Méténier
JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Leigh Payne Latin America has been a hotbed of attempts to hold business accountable for serious human rights violations. Oxford sociology professor Leigh Payne has been working on the topic for de [...]
11 July 2022
by Caleb Kazadi
Patrice Emery Lumumba, "father of Congolese independence", was finally buried on June 30 in Kinshasa 61 years after his assassination- This came after former colonial power Belgium returned his tooth ten days earlier. But while th [...]
8 July 2022
by Sanne Weber
In the early 1980s, three Belgian missionaries were killed and disappeared in Guatemala. More than 40 years after the crimes took place, on June 14 a Belgian court has ordered the arrest of five former high-level Guatemalan govern [...]
7 July 2022
by Tom Dannenbaum, Alex De Waal and Daniel Maxwell
Starvation, a war crime never yet punished, in Ukraine and elsewhere
Freeing Ukrainian wheat by facilitating its return to world markets is an urgent and timely imperative. But at the same time, warring parties around the world continue to use famine as a weapon, as old as war itself. The authors o [...]
5 July 2022
by Lena Bjurström
Lafarge and the judicial twists and turns of corporate liability in France
Since 2016, the Lafarge case seems to have been stretched out over the years and the appeals. But its many twists and turns raise questions about complicity in crimes against humanity, the place of a company as a defendant and the [...]
4 July 2022
by Franck Petit
Rwanda: "Bucyibaruta did what he could"
The genocide trial of former Rwandan prefect Laurent Bucyibaruta enters its final phase this week in Paris. Among the 115 witnesses, experts and civil parties called to testify, some defence witnesses portray a “careful” prefect w [...]
1 July 2022
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
20 years on, an ICC still in campaign for ratification
To mark the 20th anniversary of the only permanent international criminal court, active in The Hague since the ratification of the Rome Treaty by 60 states on 1 July 2002, our partners at Asymmetrical Aircuts have invited a panel [...]
1 July 2022
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: the day FARC leaders faced victims of kidnappings
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
The ICC at 20: elusive success, double standards and the “Ukraine moment”
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
Last stabs in the darkness at the ICC on the Kenyan case
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
Swiss first step to investigate environmental crimes in Gambia
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, [...]