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.
Colonial Crimes: The empire on which justice (almost) never sets
9 July 2021
by Janet Anderson
The British empire was the largest in history and it encompassed many colonial crimes. But the UK has been slow and timid in adjusting to contemporary demands for reparations, apologies, and restitution. And while there is no esca [...]
8 July 2021
by Hannah El-Hitami
In the Al-Khatib trial in Koblenz, Germany, a doctor testified about treating prisoners in the Syrian Secret Service’s Branch 251. He reported severe injuries, and deaths on an almost daily basis. But while he was tasked with impr [...]
6 July 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
The “Arch 22” is an imposing monument built by Gambia’s former dictator Yahya Jammeh to the glory of his “revolution”. The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission wants to make it a memorial to Jammeh’s victims. But the g [...]
5 July 2021
by Tatiana Chemali
It has taken more than 20 years for proceedings to begin in the ‘Diario Militar’ – or death-squad diary – case following Guatemala’s internal armed conflict. While the recent arrest of senior and mid-level officials marks a promis [...]
2 July 2021
by Janet H. Anderson and Stephanie van den Berg
Between pride and apologies, the Dutch are not yet ready to repair
Across the flat Dutch landscape there are mixed signals when it comes to dealing with colonial crimes. On one hand court cases, apologies from the King, and a national museum re-examining its own treasures in the light of slavery. [...]
1 July 2021
by Stephanie van den Berg
Stanisic and Simatovic: slim convictions in longest running Yugoslav trial
On June 30, a former head of Serbian state security and his subordinate were convicted for crimes in just one Bosnian town, and sentenced to 12 years in jail. But this retrial in the longest Yugoslav case before the UN court in Th [...]
29 June 2021
by Ruben Carranza and Maria Abrahamyan
Now is the time to make transitional justice possible in Armenia
Unlike in Turkey and Azerbaijan where movements seeking justice and democratization are violently suppressed, Armenians carried out a peaceful revolution in 2018. After the last parliamentary elections on 21 June and the surprisin [...]
28 June 2021
by Christine Chaumeau
New Zealand leads the way on reparations for indigenous people
New Zealand is decades ahead of other countries in dealing with its colonial past. For 40 years, under the Treaty of Waitangi, a process of reparation has allowed the Maori to be fully recognized at the political level. This is so [...]
25 June 2021
by Justice Info
Social media as new evidence in war crimes
“To my mind, the advent of social media is as big a breakthrough for evidence and legal proceedings as finger printing,” says Yvonne McDermott Rees, professor of law at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law at the University of [...]
25 June 2021
by Myriam Cottias
How science can help thinking on colonial crimes reparation
The database of the "Repairs" research project on reparations, compensation and indemnities for slavery (Europe, Americas, Africa) between the 19th and 21st centuries has just been made public. Its coordinator, Myriam Cottias, exp [...]
24 June 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: the day when president Santos asked for forgiveness
On Friday June 11th, former President and Nobel Peace prize laureate Juan Manuel Santos appeared before Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to ask for forgiveness for the extrajudicial executions that happened during hi [...]
22 June 2021
by Abraham Kouassi
After Gbagbo’s return, traditional leaders speak on reconciliation
Reconciliation is the word on everyone's lips since former President Laurent Gbagbo, acquitted by the International Criminal Court, returned to Côte d'Ivoire on Thursday June 17. Behind the grand spectacle of 'reconciliation', tra [...]
21 June 2021
by Antoine Harari
Switzerland: Kosiah convicted in first universal jurisdiction trial
On June 18, after three months of deliberations, judges of the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona found former Liberian warlord Alieu Kosiah guilty of war crimes in the first universal jurisdiction trial to be held in Switzerlan [...]
18 June 2021
by Clémentine Méténier
Amzat Boukari-Yabara: “France, the United States and Brazil are the main bad guys on this issue of reparations”
JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Amzat Boukari-Yabara Historian specialised in the African continent French historian Amzat Boukari-Yabara, a specialist on the African continent as well as Brazil, explores the international dimens [...]
17 June 2021
by Clémentine Méténier
Colonial Crimes: World map of justice initiatives
The colonial past is back in the spotlight in many countries, from New Zealand to France, Canada to Germany, or Sweden to the Netherlands. Official apologies, demands for reparations and restitution of cultural heritage, truth com [...]
15 June 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
Karim Khan takes over as ICC prosecutor
On Wednesday June 16, Fatou Bensouda is moving after 17 years in the two top jobs at the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. The new prosecutor, Karim Khan, comes fresh from setting up an investigative te [...]
15 June 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Karim Khan - leaving an investigative team for a court
“At UNITAD, we are an investigative team on the lookout for a court,” says British lawyer Karim Khan after having led the Daesh / ISIL investigations for the last three years. The man who is about to take over this week from Gambi [...]
14 June 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Brammertz: “South Africa is a haven for fugitive genocide suspects”
International prosecutor Serge Brammertz stepped up his tone on June 8 before the United Nations Security Council. He accused South Africa of protecting Fulgence Kayishema, a Rwandan genocide suspect who has been on the run for de [...]
11 June 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
Gambia: Letter from the M’Bai family
Justice Info has received a letter from a family member of Fafa Edrissa M'Bai, a former Minister of Justice under the military junta in Gambia, in response to an article published on May 3. In the interests of transparency and fai [...]