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.
France or Germany: state torturers, don't go to the wrong place
10 May 2021
by Jeanne Sulzer
In early 2021, France’s highest court granted immunity to state officials suspected of international crimes, while at the same time the German Federal Court rejected such a protection. The International Law Commission, which is cu [...]
7 May 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
In what has been the clearest result so far of Colombia’s transitional justice, last Friday, seven top leaders of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces acknowledged their responsibility over thousands of kidnappings and asked for [...]
6 May 2021
by Olfa Belhassine
Sociologist Sélima Kebaili, a gender studies researcher at the University of Lausanne, looks in a recent thesis at women’s experience of transitional justice in Tunisia. Her work, which she recently defended at the École des haute [...]
6 May 2021
by AFP
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), to 25 years' jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity. While a [...]
4 May 2021
by Guillaume Perrier
Why Joe Biden recognized the Armenian genocide
On April 24, the president of the United States officially designated the crime committed against Armenians by the Young Turk movement in 1915 as genocide. This recognition marks the deterioration of America's relationship with Pr [...]
3 May 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When “legal junglers” defend their role under military rule
The Yahya Jammeh regime relied on lawyers to draft and enact decrees that got rid of fundamental human rights. Some of them, including the first Minister of Justice under the military junta, were called to testify before Gambia’s [...]
30 April 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
The scandal of the “banished babies” in Ireland
Over several decades and into the 1970’s, thousands of unmarried women were forced into mother and baby homes run by the church or the state in Ireland. 50,000 babies were taken away from their mothers. Women from 12-years old and [...]
30 April 2021
by Gwenaëlle Lenoir
Sudan: Transitional justice in quarantine
It's everywhere, all the time, in all the documents. But two years after the revolution in Sudan, transitional justice is stalled. How can the country reconcile peace and justice? How can it take account of regional specificities? [...]
29 April 2021
by Hannah El-Hitami
At the Syrian trial in Germany, personal encounters with Colonel Raslan
In Germany, the first trial on crimes by the Syrian regime has entered its second year. After establishing the structural context in which the crimes were committed, the court is now focusing on the individual role of the accused [...]
27 April 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
Aaron Weah: “Liberians have been reminded that justice is still possible”
JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Aaron Weah Civil society activist and scholar on transitional justice issues Aaron Weah is a leading expert on transitional justice in Liberia. He is the only Liberian scholar to have attended the [...]
26 April 2021
by Deguène Cissé
Habré stays in jail but his support grows
Four years after his life sentence was upheld on appeal, former Chadian president Hissène Habré is to remain in jail. On April 20, the Senegalese judiciary rejected his request for a temporary release on health grounds. But Habré [...]
23 April 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
Syria, the Dutch international crimes unit new focus
On 21 April the first Syrian asylum seeker was convicted in The Netherlands of war crimes. Are investigations into Syria now bearing fruit, or are the Dutch authorities still dealing with atrocities in the Syrian conflict piecemea [...]
22 April 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
Massaquoi: Please hide this trial from Liberians
The trial of former Sierra Leonean rebel commander Gibril Massaquoi before a Finnish court concluded its hearings in Liberia on 7 April and is to resume on 28 April in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In Liberia, civil society had high exp [...]
20 April 2021
by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
In Rwanda, the surprising confessions of Bernard Munyagishari
The case of Bernard Munyagishari is unique among those transferred to Rwanda by the former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and other foreign jurisdictions. Sentenced to life by the trial court, Munyagishari caused a sur [...]
19 April 2021
by Stephanie van den Berg
Last trial, last chance at the U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia
The retrial of two former Serbian spy masters is the last trial that the U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia and its successor institution, the Residual Mechanism, will hold about the 1990s conflicts that ravaged the former Yugos [...]
16 April 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
No release for Bagosora reflects sentencing policy switch
Colonel Théoneste Bagosora, the most high profile convict of the UN’s former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, will have to continue serving his 35-year prison sentence in Mali. His request for early release, after 25 ye [...]
15 April 2021
by Lucien Chauvin
Forced sterilization in Peru: “After decades in limbo, there will finally be a decision”
Hundreds of thousands of victims of forced sterilization are waiting for it since the 1990s in Peru, after a massive and violent ‘national population policy’ was imposed by former president Alberto Fujimori. A decision on whether [...]
13 April 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
Massaquoi Trial: The appearance of Angel Gabriel
Hassan Bility was the first to say that Gibril Massaquoi was known as “Angel Gabriel”. Up until 2018, he was the only one. His testimony was the basis for investigations that led to the trial of the former Sierra Leonean rebel com [...]
- Liberia
- Special focus
12 April 2021
by JusticeInfo.net
The Massaquoi Affair: the Finnish model put to the test
In February 2021, a Finnish court began the trial of Gibril Massaquoi, a former commander and spokesman for the Sierra Leonean rebellion, accused of crimes against humanity committed in Liberia twenty years ago. However, the Finni [...]