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 vs Russia: What the European Court of Human Rights can (and can’t) do
7 April 2022
by Julia Crawford
The European Court of Human Rights was the first judicial institution to rule against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, ordering “interim measures” including a halt to attacks on civilians and civilian objects. On March 16 [...]
5 April 2022
by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
The first Sudanese trial at the International Criminal Court opens on Tuesday April 5, with victims and other suspects held in Khartoum watching. This is one of the ICC’s first historic investigations, launched in June 2005. Forme [...]
4 April 2022
by Grace Matsiko
Uganda holds the lamentable world record for the longest pre-trial detention in an international crimes trial. Thomas Kwoyelo, a former colonel in the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, has been in jail for thirteen years. His trial fo [...]
1 April 2022
by AFP
Pope Francis apologised, on Friday 1st of April, to Indigenous people for abuse committed at church-run residential schools in Canada. The long-awaited apology comes almost a year after the discovery of unmarked graves at the site [...]
1 April 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier
Anta Guissé: "The Sankara trial is in line with history”
JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Anta Guissé Lawyer at the Paris Bar For more than 20 years, Franco-Senegalese lawyer Anta Guissé has worked for the defence at international tribunals for Rwanda and Cambodia, as well as the Intern [...]
31 March 2022
by Franck Petit
Georgia, the ICC's testing ground for Ukraine
For the Kremlin, Georgia was a testing ground for what is being played out today in Ukraine on a larger scale, and for the International Criminal Court (ICC) too. In Ukraine, the war started in 2014 triggered an ICC investigation [...]
29 March 2022
by Sergey Vasiliev
The future of justice for Ukraine is domestic
A growing number of states have opened investigations into international crimes committed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion last month. While high-profile international courts like the International Criminal Court have a role to [...]
28 March 2022
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Guatemala: How indigenous women beat paramilitaries
Despite all odds, Guatemala’s highest court has sentenced five former paramilitary soldiers to 30 years in jail for raping 36 indigenous Maya Achi women during the country’s civil war, on January 24. In this new podcast, our partn [...]
25 March 2022
by Julia Crawford and Thierry Cruvellier
Ukraine responds to warfare with “lawfare”
There is a military response, a panoply of economic sanctions, and then there is a judicial offensive unprecedented in its speed and range. Justice is Ukraine’s third weapon in response to the invasion of its territory by the Russ [...]
24 March 2022
by Janet H. Anderson
The unresolved responsibility of Big Oil companies in Nigeria
On March 23 a Dutch court ruled that it was impossible to hold the oil company Shell liable for the 1995 trial and execution of Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his fellow Ogoni community leaders. The ‘Ogoni 9’ case has [...]
21 March 2022
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Who got amnesty from Gambia’s Truth commission, and who didn’t
On March 16, Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission submitted its final recommendations to the government on 25 amnesty applications. Eight of them were denied. Former number 2 of the military junta Sanna Saball [...]
17 March 2022
by Molly Quell and Thierry Cruvellier
The International Court of Justice orders Russia to stop its invasion of Ukraine
The International Court of Justice sent a strong message to Moscow on Wednesday, telling the Russian Federation to stop the war and cease military activities in Ukraine. It did it through an overwhelming 13-2 decision. However, th [...]
17 March 2022
by Janet H. Anderson
Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s “second best justice”
On March 10 judges of the Appeals Chamber at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon reversed the earlier acquittal of two defendants. Hassan Habib Merhi and Hussein Hassan Oneissi were found guilty on charges of terrorism and murder for [...]
15 March 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier
ICC/Georgia: “Because of Ukraine everything changed”
Nika Jeiranashvili has spent years lobbying the International Criminal Court to open an investigation and issue indictments regarding crimes committed during Russia’s armed intervention in Georgia in 2008. It was all in vain until [...]
14 March 2022
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
First rift between Colombia’s Peace tribunal and the victims
Colombia’s special peace tribunal is about to open three new – and perhaps final – cases. However, its decision to focus on armed actors and veer from its previous approach centred on symbolic crimes, is bringing a flurry of criti [...]
11 March 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier
Wayne Jordash: “It all comes down to show that Ukraine has the law on its side”
International criminal lawyer Wayne Jordash has been working in Ukraine since 2015, including with national prosecutors in charge of war crimes in Crimea and Donbass. After fleeing his home in Kyiv he is now in the Western part of [...]
10 March 2022
by AFP
ICC/Georgia: Three arrest warrants for pro-Russian officials
Six years after opening an investigation, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on March 10 requested the issuance of arrest warrants for pro-Russian officials in South Ossetia in connection with crimes committed duri [...]