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.
First trial in Kasai for crimes of the Kamuina Nsapu rebellion
8 November 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
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
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
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
"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 [...]
21 October 2021
by Janet Anderson
Afghanistan: a war of positions at the ICC
Shortly after his arrival, Karim Khan throws a spanner in the works. A recent statement by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court that his Afghanistan probe will not “prioritise” alleged crimes by United States t [...]
19 October 2021
by Clémentine Méténier
French Church, "you must pay !"
In 45 proposals, the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church of France calls for action to compensate, recognize, organize ceremonies and erect memorials. The Church will have to pay reparations, which could reach up [...]
18 October 2021
by Gaëlle Ponselet
Congo métis: "Children of sin" confront the Belgian state
Léa, Monique, Noëlle, Simone and Marie-José were victims of systematic segregation, as were 15,000 other mixed-race children, when Congo was a Belgian colony. The five women living in Belgium and France who were born in the Congo [...]
15 October 2021
by Pierre Hazan
France-Algeria: Having the courage to create a Truth and Memory Commission
Sixty years after the massacre of Algerians demonstrating in Paris on October 17, 1961, for the independence of their country, French president Emmanuel Macron is expected to make a new gesture for remembrance. Macron has taken se [...]
14 October 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia’s TRC gets an extension to jump over the elections
Just as the clock was winding down for Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, its three-year mandate has been extended by an additional nine months. This will allow the Commission to avoid becoming a punching bag during n [...]
11 October 2021
by Hannah El-Hitami
A castle full of stolen goods
Germany is the first country in Europe to announce the return of its share of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria by 2022. Thousands of these art pieces were looted by the British in the late 19th century. But while negotiations about the pr [...]
7 October 2021
by Clémentine Méténier
Xavier Philippe: "The Commission on Sexual Abuse has taken power over the Church”
In France, the Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) on October 5 presented an explosive report. Although this commission does not claim to be directly involved in transitional justice, it has used practices and princip [...]
5 October 2021
by AFP
Sexual abuse in the French Church: hundreds of thousands of victims
The Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church in France (Ciase) submitted its report on 5 October. Its revelations are devastating for the Catholic Church. Between 1950 and 2020, at least 216,000 children were sexually [...]