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.
ICC: civil society from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and beyond calls for more resources for the investigation in Ukraine
3 March 2022
by 66 civil society organisations signatories
In this urgent appeal, which Justice Info has decided to relay, civil society organisations from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus and their international partners welcome the launch of the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigati [...]
2 March 2022
by AFP
Overnight, Ukraine's case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) became an "active investigation", eight years after the opening of a preliminary investigation in 2014. Reacting to Russia's widespread attack, 39 ICC States Part [...]
1 March 2022
by Franck Petit
Two days after the outbreak of the Russian attack, Ukraine has seized the International Court of Justice. But what can international law do to sanction the aggression of one state against another in the 21st century? Interview wit [...]
28 February 2022
by Mark Freeman and Louise Mallinder
In peace negotiations, amnesties and justice are often presented as mutually exclusive tools. In reality, amnesties are systematically on the table and should be given a 'presumption of conformity' with international law, under cl [...]
25 February 2022
by Thijs Bouwknegt
Afghanistan: Challenges of trying a war crimes veteran in The Hague
On Tuesday 22 February, the District Court of The Hague closed its latest universal jurisdiction trial, against an Afghan-Dutch national alleged to have been head of the Pul-e-Charki prison in Kabul in the 1980s. But the trial has [...]
24 February 2022
by Hesham Youssef
Here is a way for international law to better help end conflicts (1/3)
The reality of war is back in the heart of Europe. This makes it all the more important to talk about peace – which means making the choice of negotiation more attractive, more organised and more flexible. After more than three ye [...]
22 February 2022
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Russia vs Ukraine at the European Court of Human Rights
Did Russia have territorial control of eastern Ukraine when Flight MH17 was shot down in 2014? This was one of the hot issues discussed this January at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in a case brought by Ukraine and the [...]
22 February 2022
by Janet H. Anderson
Indonesia: the Dutch no longer can see colonisation in rosy terms
Last week researchers in the Netherlands and Indonesia finally laid out the ways in which the Dutch state both condoned and concealed its systematic use of “extreme violence” during the Indonesian war of independence. In response, [...]
21 February 2022
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: General Rachid Ammar, a 'hero of the revolution' charged with homicide
Through him, the role of the army is on trial. General Rachid Ammar, former Tunisian army Chief of Staff appeared on Monday, February 14, before the specialized judicial chamber of Tunis. Until now considered an exemplary military [...]
18 February 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier
Liberia: Massaquoi freed from jail in run-up to Finnish verdict
There’s a new surprise in the trial of Gibril Massaquoi. On Wednesday February 16, the Finnish court released this former Sierra Leonean rebel after almost two years in detention. The trial verdict is expected by April 29, and his [...]
17 February 2022
by Franck Petit
Restitutions to Senegal: "We must consult the people"
In Senegal, a Fulani violinist is restoring the identity to an instrument collected 175 years ago by abolitionist Victor Schœlcher. The instrument is part of the Cité de la Musique collections in Paris, but this violinist reveals [...]
15 February 2022
by Franck Petit
Restitutions: Senegal takes the African Union ‘lead’
"The restitution of our stolen heritage will remain at the heart of our agenda," said Senegal's president on Saturday, February 5, as he took the helm of the African Union. Senegal, along with others such as Algeria and Egypt, is [...]
14 February 2022
by Janet H Anderson
The ups and downs of a historic ruling on reparations
Last week the International Court of Justice ruled that Uganda should pay 325 million dollars to the Democratic Republic of Congo for the occupation and plundering of its Eastern province more than 20 years ago. How meaningful the [...]
11 February 2022
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Legal battlefields on Myanmar
Multiple and very diverse procedures are undergoing to address the crimes committed against Myanmar’s Rohingyas. The proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) are back in the spotlight but there is a knotty issue [...]
11 February 2022
by Julia Crawford
Pardoning “witches” of the Middle Ages: A symbol for our times?
Recently in Spain, the Catalan regional parliament formally pardoned hundreds of women executed between the 15th and 18th centuries because they were "witches". Scotland’s parliament could soon do the same, while other places in E [...]
10 February 2022
by Claude Sengenya
Ugandan reparations: $325 million that baffle the Congolese
On February 9, the International Court of Justice set the final amount that Uganda should pay the Democratic Republic of Congo for the damage caused by its military intervention in 1998-2003. But in Butembo, in North Kivu where so [...]
8 February 2022
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia wagers on political participation as a form of redress
With the general and presidential election campaign in full swing in Colombia, victims of its 52-year-long armed conflict are playing a more visible role than ever. Three political parties decimated by violence were resurrected by [...]
7 February 2022
by Jean-Pierre Massias and Niki Siampakou
Scotland: Transitional justice to deal with economic violence
Since October, a bill to grant "pardons" for coalminers who participated in the violent strikes of 1984 and 1985 has been before the Scottish Parliament. Its scope is limited, but like the commission of inquiry that preceded it, t [...]
4 February 2022
by Heather Ryan
And then, finally, a judge wrote the shameful end of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
After 13 years of fruitless and expensive procedure, the Supreme Court of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, ruled last December there would be no more than two trials in Phnom [...]