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.
Can the French Church "repair" its crimes?
17 January 2022
by Bronwen Cowley
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
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
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
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 [...]
17 December 2021
by JusticeInfo.net
The right to reparation in transitional justice
UNDERSTANDING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE | Episode 3 > What is meant by the right to reparation? What does it mean when it is impossible to repair the situation of the past, or when the victims are deemed too numerous? Xavier Philipp [...]
17 December 2021
by Jessica Lescs
Migrants and international justice: why the pressure is mounting
December 18 is International Migrants Day. There are growing initiatives to have crimes against these vulnerable populations qualified as crimes against humanity, sometimes war crimes. Nearly 23,000 migrants have died in the Medit [...]
16 December 2021
by JusticeInfo.net
“A good man and an exceptional colleague”
We have received many testimonies following the death on November 30 of Ephrem Rugiririza, Justice Info’s Africa editor. Former colleagues and others who knew him during his 30-year career speak of an exceptional journalist and hu [...]
16 December 2021
by JusticeInfo.net
Kidnappings in Colombia: the reckoning
Kidnapping has been the most infamous practice of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The images of prisoners in cages, chained in the middle of the jungle, have captured the attention of the world's media. These crimes wi [...]
14 December 2021
by Clémentine Méténier
Antoine Garapon: "The Church says it's ready to repair, so we must believe it!"
JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Antoine Garapon President of the Independent Commission on Recognition and Reparation for sexual crimes committed in French religious congregations The work of the Independent Commission on Sexual [...]
13 December 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
The ICC in times of budget crunch
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan has been joined by two new deputy prosecutors, elected last week during this year’s annual meeting of the court. But states did not step up with additional resources, so he [...]
10 December 2021
by JusticeInfo.net
What does it mean to have a right to the truth?
UNDERSTANDING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE | Episode 2 > Law professor Fabrice Hourquebie explains this central right of victims and the restorative aspect of transitional justice. How do historical truth and judicial truth differ and [...]
10 December 2021
by Christine Chaumeau
Argentina comes to the aid of Myanmar Rohingya
On November 26, the Argentine judiciary decided to open an investigation into the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, under the principle of universal jurisdiction. Since the Myanmar military’s coup on February 1, 2021, a new common fro [...]
