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.
Liberia: Massaquoi freed from jail in run-up to Finnish verdict
18 February 2022
by Thierry Cruvellier
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
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
"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
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 [...]
3 February 2022
by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
In Lebanon, the Lokman Slim Foundation will keep the memory of political assassinations
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,
Germany: When Syrian doctors became part of Assad’s terror
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 colonial past commission stalls
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
Sudan: A coup against justice
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 [...]