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.
Hassan Bouba: a rebel minister before the Special Court
23 November 2021
by Carol Valade
In the Central African Republic, the Minister of Livestock and former political coordinator of the UPC rebellion was arrested and charged on Friday, November 19, with war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Special Criminal [...]
22 November 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
For the third time, a trial is opening in France against a Rwandan accused of participating in the 1994 genocide against Tutsis. The case of Claude Muhayimana, a lowly hotel driver, will take the court back to the massacres in the [...]
19 November 2021
by Janet Anderson
On November 5, the new Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan announced that he will launch an investigation into crimes against humanity in Venezuela, and signed an agreement with its government. Has the prosec [...]
18 November 2021
by Julia Crawford
A recent UN report said serious crimes had been committed in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict by all sides, including neighbouring Eritrea which is allied with the government. It refers to potential war crimes and crimes against humanit [...]
16 November 2021
by Chandni Dhingra
Justice for Cultural Harms? Lessons from Canada
The recent discovery of anonymous graves at former Canadian residential schools has reopened the debate on the response to redress for crimes against indigenous peoples. The various transitional justice mechanisms that have been p [...]
15 November 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Should a woman be penalized for having a genocidal husband?
In a recent article, a professor of public law analyses a French court decision to deny naturalization to a Rwandan woman because of her marital relationship with a man convicted of genocide. Behind the decision is the saga of an [...]
12 November 2021
by Rachida Houssou
Benin celebrates return of stolen heritage 130 years on
It is done! On November 10, Benin received 12 boxes containing 26 royal treasures stolen by colonial France. This was a historic day when Beninese people turned out to celebrate the return of these works after 130 years away from [...]
11 November 2021
by Boubacar Sidiki Haidara
Reparations in Mali: hope or hot air?
Mali’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission has recommended a 100 million euro reparations programme for Malian victims. But where will the funding come from? Who would be entitled to what, and what would happen if victims [...]
9 November 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
The ICC backs Colombia’s transitional justice model
On October 28, Prosecutor Karim Khan decided to close the International Criminal Court’s preliminary examination on Colombia, opened 17 years ago. His decision came with a strong endorsement of the country’s innovative transitiona [...]
8 November 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
First trial in Kasai for crimes of the Kamuina Nsapu rebellion
For the first time in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai province, a former militia leader was on October 30 convicted of war crimes by Congolese military justice. This took place in one of the villages set on fire in 2017 d [...]
5 November 2021
by Hannah El-Hitami
Syrian torture trial in Germany: “Raslan was scared”
As the first Syrian state crimes trial in Europe is coming to an end, it is the defence’s turn to show the main defendant, Anwar Raslan, in a different light. They presented a man stripped of real authority, sympathetic to the rev [...]
4 November 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
Fatou Bensouda: “I didn’t know what was happening under Jammeh”
For the first time ever, former International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda talks about the time when she served under the dictatorship of Yahya Jammeh in the Gambia. She claims she knew nothing of the serious human rig [...]
2 November 2021
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Colonial crimes: Experts recommend that Belgium compensate
"Monetary payment of a colonial debt, in light of Belgium's moral responsibility". This is one of the strong recommendations in an expert report published on October 27. For a year, ten historians, jurists and political scientists [...]
29 October 2021
by Alexandra Lily Kather, Niriksha Sanghvi and Carlotta Sallach
How Gender Stereotypes Distort IS Trials in Germany
On October 25, a Munich Court sentenced a German national to 10 years in prison for the enslavement and killing of a five-year-old Yazidi girl in Iraq. Jennifer W.’s conviction is the fifth in Germany of a female Islamic State (IS [...]
28 October 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Why the two ICC deputy prosecutors should be women
Can the “ICC boys’ club problem” be solved by the ongoing election of two deputy prosecutors to assist new chief prosecutor Karim Khan? To tackle the ICC’s gender imbalance, “both should be women”, says Zimbabwean international cr [...]
28 October 2021
by Clémentine Méténier
Sexual abuse in the Church: Tough task for French justice
The Church of France has covered up a massive crime, but what about the justice system and the statute of limitations? Shocked by the Sauvé report, the Minister of Justice has asked prosecutors to open investigations even if the f [...]
26 October 2021
by Julia Crawford
Why Switzerland is relaunching an Iranian cold case for "genocide"
The cold case of an Iranian dissident assassinated in Switzerland 30 years ago was ordered reopened on September 27 by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court, on suspicions of “genocide or crimes against humanity”. Why?
25 October 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Rodrigo Granda: the diplomatic storm that shook Colombia
The detention in Mexico of Rodrigo Granda, a former head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and signatory of Colombia’s peace agreement, sparked a diplomatic storm. Paraguay accuses him of murder, while Colombia is on t [...]
22 October 2021
by Jehanne Henry
Why Handing Over ICC Suspects Could Help Sudan’s Transition
The Sudanese people massively filled the streets, yesterday, to protest against the prospect of military rule, underlining tensions between the military and civilian leaders, now at an all-time high. Both sides need to restore cre [...]