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.
In Lebanon, the Lokman Slim Foundation will keep the memory of political assassinations
3 February 2022
by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
The Lokman Slim Foundation was officially launched in Beirut on February 3 this year, exactly one year after the assassination of the Lebanese intellectual whose name it bears. This exceptional new research centre documents the nu [...]
1 February 2022
by Hannah El-Hitami,
In Frankfurt, Germany, a Syrian doctor is accused of crimes against humanity. He is said to have tortured 18 prisoners in Syria’s military hospitals, depriving two of their ability to reproduce, and killing one. Dr. Alaa Moussa ha [...]
31 January 2022
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Belgium’s commission set up to shed light on its colonial past in the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi still seems to be searching for a solution, which has dampened the initial enthusiasm it aroused. Two historians who helped draft the [...]
28 January 2022
by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
Since the coup last October, the military have been sweeping away any hope of justice in Sudan. After holding it back during the transition that followed the fall of former president Omar al-Bashir, they are now acting alone to me [...]
27 January 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier
Liberia: Massaquoi trial closes in Finland
The trial of Gibril Massaquoi, a former Sierra Leonean rebel accused of crimes committed in Liberia, came to an end on Monday, January 24, before a Finnish court. One year after the start of this trial, which included four months [...]
25 January 2022
by Julia Crawford
Five years on, the slow wheels of Swiss justice in Gambian case
Five years ago, on 26 January 2017, former Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko was arrested in Switzerland, suspected of crimes against humanity. Five years after, he is still in pre-trial detention in the Alpine country. Why i [...]
24 January 2022
by Adriana Rudling
Can Colombia be a model for the post truth commission period?
In Colombia, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is a main historic component of the 2016 Peace Agreement and is due to close its doors in June 2022. The author considers its potential for long-term impact, in light of a study [...]
21 January 2022
by Mustapha K. Darboe
TRRC Final Report: What must Gambia do to avoid another Jammeh
In December, the final report of Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) was finally published, after two and a half years of work. Beyond its recommendations for prosecutions, these are its key findings a [...]
20 January 2022
by Hannah El-Hitami
Anwar Raslan's conviction: "The beginning of a wider struggle"
In Koblenz, Germany, the al-Khatib trial has ended with a life sentence for main defendant Anwar Raslan. The judges found the ex-intelligence officer responsible for torture and killing in Damascus security branch 251. The defence [...]
17 January 2022
by Bronwen Cowley
Can the French Church "repair" its crimes?
IN CAMERA | Episode 4 > Will the Church in France "pay" for its crimes? And what can it do to "repair" them? These are burning questions at the start of 2022, after an explosive report on October 5 on sexual abuse in the Church [...]
14 January 2022
by Luc Henkinbrant
Transitional Justice in the DRC: How the UN has put it in a drawer
On December 20, the United Nations Security Council extended the mandate of its mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for one more year. But the resolution adopted makes no mention of any task actively involving it in [...]
13 January 2022
by Lena Bjurström
Sweden-Iran: Noury faces death row survivors
Former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury, on trial for war crimes before a court in the Swedish capital Stockholm, has since last summer been confronted with the testimony of witnesses. He denies any involvement in the mass exec [...]
13 January 2022
by AFP
Syria: Anwar Raslan gets life sentence for crimes against humanity
A historic verdict has just been handed down in Germany, on Thursday 13 January. State torture in Syria has been recognised for the first time by a court, in Koblenz, with the sentencing of Anwar Raslan to life for crimes against [...]
10 January 2022
by JusticeInfo.net
How is transitional justice carried out?
UNDERSTANDING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE | Episode 4 > What are the objectives of transitional justice? What are its means? This episode describes the four historical "pillars" of transitional justice and other measures that have bee [...]
10 January 2022
by Hannah El-Hitami
Defence: “Raslan did whatever he could to help”
The final verdict in the first state torture trial for Syria is expected on January 13, in Koblenz, Germany. Last Thursday, the defence pleaded for Anwar Raslan’s innocence. The former secret service officer himself made a final s [...]
7 January 2022
by Mustapha K. Darboe
TRRC Final report: Gambia between prosecutions and amnesties
On Christmas Eve, six months after it was first announced, the final report of the Gambia Truth Commission (TRRC) was made public. Primarily, in its first volume, it has recommended dozens of prosecutions and, unsurprisingly, targ [...]
6 January 2022
by Hannah El-Hitami
Prosecution: "Raslan was either powerless, or he wasn’t"
Today on January 6, the defense will make its closing arguments before the court in Koblenz, Germany. The trial against former Syrian secret service colonel Anwar Raslan is coming to an end. In December, the prosecution and joint [...]
4 January 2022
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: 21 Army officials own up to war crimes and crimes against humanity
This is another major result for Colombia’s transitional justice: at the end of 2021, 21 former Army officials acknowledged their responsibility over the murder of civilians who were then passed off as rebels killed in combat. In [...]
3 January 2022
by Gratien Hakorimana
Rwanda: Is the trial of a "simple driver" a lesser trial?
Using the principle of universal jurisdiction, a French court on December 16 sentenced Rwandan Claude Muhayimana to 14 years in jail for complicity in genocide. Muhayimana was accused of having, in 1994, transported Hutu militiame [...]