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Hissène Habré
Habré's death: Final blow or wake-up call for reparations?
26 August 2021 by Déguène Cissé and Franck Petit
Prior to Chadian ex-president Hissène Habré’s death on Tuesday, nothing was moving on the reparations for victims ordered after he was convicted. The seizure of his assets in Senegal has never taken place and the African Union has [...]
Hissène Habré, surrounded by police and journalists on the first day of his trial, July 20, 2015 in Dakar, Senegal Hissène Habré: the lion of Chad is dead
24 August 2021 by AFP / JusticeInfo.net
He was nicknamed the lion. The former president of Chad died on 24 August, aged 79, in a Dakar hospital. Hissène Habré was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2016 for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Extraordinary Afri [...]
Activist in front of thousands of photos of victims of the 1988 massacres in Iran Iran: first trial for 1988 massacres opens in Stockholm
24 August 2021 by Lena Bjurström
Since August 10, a Swedish court has been trying a former Iranian official who allegedly took part in the mass executions carried out in Iranian prisons in 1988. The trial is as historic as it is politically sensitive, with new Ir [...]
Demonstration in Mauritania to demand the end of slavery Justice still in chains for Mauritania’s slaves
23 August 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
August 23 is "International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition”. But in Mauritania slavery persists, even though it has, under international pressure, been qualified as a crime against humanity. Some obse [...]
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Le meilleur de Justice Info (2020-2021)
2 August 2021 by Justice Info
The best of Justice Info (2020-2021) Justice Info is taking a summer break and will resume publishing on August 23. In the meantime, we bring you a selection of our best articles since September 2020. We hope you enjoy this look back at transitional justice events over the last 12 months.
Demonstration by victims of the Jammeh regime
30 July 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia’s Truth Commission puts a price on reparations The final report of the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, expected to be submitted today to the President of Gambia, has been postponed to September 30. Meanwhile the Commission has clarified what it has spent in r [...]
Indigenous ceremony near the graves of children who were victims of Canadian residential schools during the colonial era
29 July 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Canada’s reckoning with colonial violence Over the past few months, several mass and unmarked graves have been identified near former residential schools for indigenous children in Canada. Such institutions were created with the explicit objective of removing children fro [...]
29 July 2021 by Pascale Guéricolas
In Canada, tombs of indigenous children shake national conscience In the last two months, Canadians have been rediscovering with shock the details of a violent past. Over more than a century, many indigenous children died in residential schools where they were forced to go for their education. T [...]
Eduardo Cifuentes
27 July 2021 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Eduardo Cifuentes: “This dialogue between victims and perpetrators is unprecedented” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Eduardo Cifuentes President of Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) Eduardo Cifuentes is the president of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, the judicial arm of the transitional justice [...]
Gibril Massaquoi during his trial in Finland
26 July 2021 by Thierry Cruvellier
In new twist, Massaquoi trial to return to Liberia There is a new twist in the trial of former Sierra Leonean rebel commander Gibril Massaquoi. The Finnish court that is trying him plans to return to Liberia to hold new hearings, provided Liberian authorities agree. According to t [...]
3D aerial view of the future musuem of Abomey, in Benin
23 July 2021 by Rachida Houssou
Colonial crimes: Benin prepares for the return of its cultural heritage Five years after its official request for the restitution of its cultural heritage to France, Benin is getting closer to its goal. The return of 26 works looted during the colonial era has been set for 30 October. All the infrastr [...]
Destroyed buildings in Homs, Syria
22 July 2021 by Lena Bjurström
In France, the lengthy Syrian investigations Investigations on crimes in Syria are multiplying in France. They now constitute the largest number of cases handled by judicial bodies dedicated to the prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity. But the many investiga [...]
A Colombian soldier stands near civilians in the street
20 July 2021 by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: 25 Army officials charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity Over the past two weeks, Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace announced its second batch of major decisions, accusing 25 former members of the Colombian Army of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including several high-r [...]
Pope Francis at the Vatican, accompanied by other church leaders
19 July 2021 by Julia Crawford
Church is obstructing justice for clerical child abuse, say UN experts Last month, the United Nations made public that four of their special human rights rapporteurs have complained to the Vatican about the lack of accountability for perpetrators of child abuse and reparation for victims. They called [...]
Yankuba Touray (with his lawyer in the picture) sentenced to death in Gambia
16 July 2021 by By Mustapha K. Darboe
Yankuba Touray sentenced to death in Gambia On July 14, Yankuba Touray was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. The former Minister of Local Government in the early days of Gambia’s military junta is the first former senior member of Yahya Jammeh’s regime to be tr [...]
Afghan victim (young boy) wounded, in hospital
15 July 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Afghanistan victims in limbo Twenty years after their invasion, US troops are leaving Afghanistan, and the Talibans are back, controlling 85% of the country already. For the many Afghan victims and rights activists, the situation looks hopeless. From all side [...]
Vandalized statue of King Leopold II of Belgium
15 July 2021 by Gaëlle Ponselet
Commission on Belgium’s colonial past: expert mission ends What was supposed to be preliminary work lasting two to three months has taken a year. Some dozen experts were given a mandate from the special commission on Belgium’s colonial past to chart the main outlines of that historical pe [...]
Dutch soldiers fire shells in the Chora region, Afghanistan
13 July 2021 by Stephanie van den Berg
Dutch war crimes in Afghanistan: The Australian trigger An Australian probe has dented the Dutch wall of silence about alleged war crimes in Afghanistan more than ten years ago. Stories from Dutch Afghanistan veterans have begun to surface in the media. It has also boosted a long-runni [...]
Landscape of the region of Deir ez-Zor in Syria
12 July 2021 by Thijs Bouwknegt
Caught killing on camera in Deir ez-Zor On July 2, Dutch prosecutors demanded a 27-year prison sentence for Ahmad Al Khedr for a single war crime and participation in a terrorist group in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. At the heart of the case is the execution of a Syrian officer, [...]