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.
Truth in Colombia: “Your sons were innocent people we murdered”
23 May 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier
This was the last major public hearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Colombia. On May 10 in Soacha, three retired soldiers listened to 13 women tell them about the unbearable and permanent pain of losing their [...]
23 May 2022
by AFP
“The court has found that [Vadim] Shishimarin is guilty and sentences him to life imprisonment,” judge Sergiy Agafonov said this Monday 23 May, announcing the verdict in the first trial of a Russian military officer, just three mo [...]
20 May 2022
by Molly Quell
On Wednesday 18 May, the Kosovo special court based in The Hague decided to strongly sanction two former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) for “obstruction of justice” and “witness intimidation”. At the origin of this ca [...]
19 May 2022
by Lena Bjurström
Elected last November to the presidency of Interpol, Emirati General Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi is the target in Europe of several judicial complaints for "torture". Already under a first investigation in France, where the internationa [...]
17 May 2022
by Iryna Salii
Ukraine opens first war crime trial of a Russian soldier
On May 13, the Solomianskyi District Court in Kyiv held a preliminary hearing in the first trial of a soldier in the Russian army, Vadim Shishimarin, after the start of the “special operation” launched by the Russian Federation ag [...]
13 May 2022
by Scott Straus
Genocide in Ukraine: what are the roots of the debate?
In Ukraine, genocide is once again in the news. As in nearly every recent humanitarian crisis, in which there has been large-scale violence against civilians, the question arises: is this genocide? Trying to settle the debate defi [...]
12 May 2022
by AFP
Mpiranya, the last major Rwandan fugitive was dead
He had been announced dead in 2006. The rumour is confirmed since Tuesday by DNA tests performed on his remains in Zimbabwe. Major Protais Mpiranya commanded the presidential guard during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. He was wanted [...]
12 May 2022
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Will the government prosecute returned Jammeh hit-men
Nine former soldiers and members of the infamous “Junglers” hit-squad of former president Yahya Jammeh have returned to Gambia from exile and remain at large. Pending a government White Paper on the implementation of the Truth Com [...]
10 May 2022
by Rita Gay
Seychelles Truth Commission completes its mandate in hardship
In three months exactly, the mandate of the Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission (TRNUC) in Seychelles is due to end. With limited resources and political support, the Commission is struggling to prepare its final r [...]
9 May 2022
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Rwandan ex-prefect Bucyibaruta on trial for genocide in Paris
Former Rwandan prefect Laurent Bucyibaruta, 78, goes on trial from May 9 to July 12 before the Paris Court of Assizes for alleged crimes of genocide, complicity in genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity during the Tuts [...]
5 May 2022
by Julia Crawford
Ukraine, ICC and Eurojust: how will that work
On April 25, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor announced that his office has joined a Joint Investigation Team on alleged international crimes in Ukraine, under the auspices of Eurojust, the European Union Agency f [...]
3 May 2022
by Lansana Gberie
Massaquoi acquittal: What has it Wrought?
Lansana Gberie, a renowned expert on the civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia, provides an exclusive analysis of the trial of Gibril Massaquoi before a Finnish court, and how it led to a full acquittal on April 29. He worries ab [...]
2 May 2022
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: The day 10 army officials accused of false positives faced their victims
It was an unprecedented scene in Colombia. On April 27 and 28, in the heart of the mountainous region of Catatumbo, 10 members of the national army admitted to the murder of 120 civilians in front of the victims’ families. A major [...]
29 April 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier
Acquittal of Massaquoi: reality check for Finnish justice
What was supposed to be an innovative and exemplary judicial experiment has turned into an adventurous rush to conviction, with questionable investigative practices and fanciful historical theories. On April 29, by acquitting Gibr [...]
26 April 2022
by Thijs Bouwknegt
Time’s ticking for Ethiopia’s Red Terror trial in the Netherlands
Last week, The Hague Appeals Court completed its long-awaited hearings on old war crimes in Ethiopia. With ongoing conflict in Tigray, the Derg’s “Red Terror” of four decades ago may seem a story of the past. Yet this belated but [...]
25 April 2022
by Mustapha Darboe
Gambian dictatorship’s crimes go on trial in Germany
On April 25, the trial of a former member of a hit squad – known as the “Junglers” – under Yahya Jammeh’s rule in The Gambia opens before a German court. Baboucar “Bai” Lowe is a self-confessed former driver of this paramilitary g [...]
22 April 2022
by Janet H. Anderson
A Nuremberg for Russia’s crime of aggression?
As the debates continue on the international legal response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, our correspondent Janet Anderson has taken some soundings from a range of international law and other experts. Central to the discussi [...]
21 April 2022
by Joseph Mbuyi
In Kasai, justice against all odds
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, this is the third war crimes trial of former members of the Kamuina Nsapu militia. On April 19, seven former members of this rebel movement were convicted for war crimes committed in 2017 in Ka [...]
19 April 2022
by Adriana Rudling
What’s behind the numbers of disappeared in the Colombian armed conflict?
There are conflicting numbers on forced disappearance in Colombia. Over the years, different registers have appeared that have varying scope and purpose. This recently caused alarm with the UN Committee on Forced Disappearance. Re [...]