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.
The best of Justice Info (2020-2021)
2 August 2021
by Justice Info
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.
30 July 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
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 [...]
29 July 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
9 July 2021
by Janet Anderson
Colonial Crimes: The empire on which justice (almost) never sets
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
Syrian trial in Germany: the role of doctors and hospitals in the Assad regime’s prison system
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
Gambia: Government and Truth Commission clash over Jammeh’s Arch
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
Guatemala’s ‘Diario Militar’ case: desperate times call for precautionary measures
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 [...]