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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.

A woman and young Yezidi refugee girls
Germany: First conviction for genocide against the Yazidi
7 December 2021 by Hannah El-Hitami
In the German city of Frankfurt, Iraqi national Taha al-J. has been sentenced to life in prison for the death of a young Yazidi girl he enslaved. It is the first time worldwide that a court convicts a member of the organization Is [...]
Karim Khan at the Internaitonal Criminal Court (The Hague) Karim Khan meets the states at the ICC
6 December 2021 by Janet H. Anderson
Karim Khan, the new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is making substantial changes to how his office works. As he attends his first Assembly of States Parties meeting, that is opening on Monday December 6, all eyes a [...]
Ephrem Rugiririza In Tribute to Ephrem
3 December 2021 by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
The editorial staff of Justice Info are in mourning after the death of our Africa editor, Ephrem Rugiririza, on Tuesday November 30 at his home in Kampala, Uganda. We publish here a tribute from one of those who knew him best in h [...]
Group of nomadic Sámis Truth commissions in the Nordic states: Who is to be reconciled with whom?
2 December 2021 by Astri Dankertsen and Malin Arvidsson
The Church of Sweden made an official apology to the Sámi people on 24 November, just weeks after two new truth commissions were set up to inquire into historical injustices against the Sámi in Sweden and Finland. Although differe [...]
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Karim Khan - International-Criminal Court (ICC / CPI)
30 November 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
How to read Karim Khan's new directions While indecision prevailed under Fatou Bensouda’s regime, who left a pile of unanswered issues on her desk, the new International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Karim Khan already made a series of radical decisions in the ‘situa [...]
Eduardo Ferro
30 November 2021 by Elena Salgueiro
Uruguay: a law to benefit perpetrators of crimes against humanity? Criminals around the world are using Covid-19 to try to get out of jail. In Uruguay, a group of senators is going further: they are proposing a law that would allow all convicts over 65 years of age to be placed under house arrest [...]
Jean-Pierre Massias
30 November 2021 by JusticeInfo.net
What is transitional justice? Jean-Pierre Massias, president of IFJD and professor of law, tells how, beyond the doctrine, this field of action in the face of mass violence has been formed in a progressive and pragmatic way. How did transitional justice come a [...]
A soldier stands guard outside an oil refinery
29 November 2021 by Lena Bjurström
Oil and war crimes: Swedish justice in the front line On November 11, the president and former director of the Lundin Energy company were indicted for complicity in war crimes. The charges relate to attacks carried out against civilians between 1999 and 2003 in an area of the future [...]
Lamin Sise (chairman of the gambian Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission) presents the final report of the TRRC to Adama Barrow (president on the Gambia)
26 November 2021 by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Truth Commission report hangs on election result After months of procrastination, Gambian President Adama Barrow received, on Thursday November 25, the final report of the Gambian Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC). It is yet to be made public, and its recom [...]
Oil refineries in desert (Sudan)
25 November 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Lundin in Swedish court pipeline for war crimes Last week, Sweden indicted two oil executives from Swedish oil company Lundin Energy for aiding and abetting war crimes in South Sudan between 1999 and 2003. If the trial starts next year as expected, it will be a very important m [...]
Hassan Bouba, Ali Darassa and other UPC rebels are gathered around a table
23 November 2021 by Carol Valade
Hassan Bouba: a rebel minister before the Special Court 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 [...]
Claude Muhayimana in Paris (2013)
22 November 2021 by Ephrem Rugiririza
French Justice Returns to Rwanda 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 [...]
Two riot police officers arrest a protester and take him away on a motorbike
19 November 2021 by Janet Anderson
Venezuela and the ICC: who’s fooling who? 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 [...]
Riders hold up the Ethiopian flag
18 November 2021 by Julia Crawford
War in Ethiopia: What chance of justice for serious crimes? 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 [...]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chief Cadmus Delorme and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe stand for a photograph with residential school survivors following a ceremony at the site of a former residential school in Cowessess First Nation, Sask, July 6, 2021.
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 [...]
State Council buildings in Paris, France
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 [...]
A cargo plane unloads the royal treasures at Cotonou airport (Benin)
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 [...]
Ousmana Oumarou Sidibé, seated at his desk at the Truth Commission of Mali, answers questions from Justice Info
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 [...]
Iván Duque and Karim Khan pose with a document in hand. A painting of Simon Bolivar is displayed behind them.
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 [...]