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.
Ukraine: What it’s like to be lawyer for a Russian fighting your country
29 August 2022
by Iryna Salii
On July 29, the Kyiv Court of Appeal reduced to 15 years the sentence of the first Russian soldier tried for war crimes in Ukraine since February 24. Vadim Shishimarin had been sentenced In May to life imprisonment. We met with Vi [...]
26 August 2022
by Robert Odongo
In the western part of Uganda, about 100,000 people are displaced by a huge oil project mainly run by the French giant Total Energies. The area has been placed under a blanket lockdown by the government. And Total is now subject t [...]
25 August 2022
by Julia Crawford
With one million Rohingya still in Bangladesh refugee camps and increased violence after the military coup last year, justice efforts for Myanmar are still in their early stages. But the UN body in Geneva that is gathering evidenc [...]
22 August 2022
by Julia Crawford
A top Russian official said in late July that Moscow had charged 92 members of the Ukrainian armed forces with “crimes against the peace and security of mankind” and opened over 1,300 criminal investigations. Are there any grounds [...]
1 August 2022
by Justice Info
Our best justice stories (2021-2022)
Justice Info is taking a break and will resume publishing on August 22. This is an opportunity to offer you a selection of our best "justice stories" published since September 2021. Six articles where our journalists tell the stor [...]
28 July 2022
by Iryna Salii
War crimes trial in Chernihiv: "There is an oath to carry out the commander's orders"
The war crimes trial of Russian soldier Mykhailo Kulikov is ongoing in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. On February 26, 2022, he allegedly fired one shot from a tank into a civilian high-rise on the outskirts of the city. The new [...]
27 July 2022
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The Truth Commission’s message to Colombia
On 28 June, Colombia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission unveiled its final report on that country’s 60-year armed conflict. Its central message, gathered in a nearly 900-page chapter on findings and recommendations, focuses les [...]
26 July 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier
ICJ admits genocide case against Myanmar
On July 22, the International Court of Justice rejected Myanmar's arguments that it lacked jurisdiction over charges brought against the Burmese government by Gambia. Almost three years after the case was filed, the court will now [...]
22 July 2022
by Julia Crawford
Justice in Libya: A road to hope or a road to nowhere?
A UN Fact-Finding Mission recently published its third report unveiling more evidence of “crimes against humanity, war crimes, and gross human rights violations” in Libya, including against migrants. National authorities are suppo [...]
21 July 2022
by Martine Lind Krebs
Denmark and Greenland confront a traumatic birth control campaign
The contraceptive device IUD is at the centre of a crisis in the relationship between Denmark and Greenland. An investigative podcast has revealed that Danish health authorities in the 60s and 70s placed thousands of IUDs in Green [...]
19 July 2022
by Guido Bilbao
Argentina’s Ultimate Rendez-Vous with Justice
On July 6, 19 former members of the Argentine Armed Forces accused of crimes of torture, kidnapping, homicide, as well as raids, aggravated robberies and aggravated sexual abuse against hundreds of detainees, most of them disappea [...]
18 July 2022
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: death penalty for former leaders of the national intelligence agency
On July 13, 6 members of the top leadership of the National Intelligence Agency, a place notorious for torture and disappearance under the regime of Yahya Jammeh (1994-2017), were sentenced to death for their role in the 2016 kill [...]
15 July 2022
by Iryna Salii
Inside courts where Ukrainian judges try Ukrainian POWs
Dozens of Ukrainian combatants from Ukraine’s occupied territories who joined the Russian army’s invasion have been captured by the Ukrainian army. They are being tried en masse. The specialized news website “Sudovyi Reporter” ("C [...]
14 July 2022
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Four Ways to Accountability in Ukraine
There is the International Criminal Court (ICC); there are domestic proceedings before Ukraine’s courts; there are some talks about a “special tribunal” of some hybrid nature; and there is universal jurisdiction promised by a numb [...]
14 July 2022
by Iryna Salii
Ukraine: The first war time rape trial is held in absentia and behind closed doors
Last month, an investigation on an alleged wartime rape was for the first time completed in Ukraine. Some say the alleged perpetrator, a Russian soldier, is dead while the prosecutor believes he is in Russia. Proceedings are held [...]
13 July 2022
by AFP
Genocide in Rwanda : Bucyibaruta guilty by complicity
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
Leigh Payne: Why Latin America is leading the way on corporate accountability
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
Lumumba's tooth is returned, while still waiting for truth
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
Universal jurisdiction: what can Belgian justice bring for Guatemalan victims?
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 [...]